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Aug 23, 2022
Ezra
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This is an enjoyable book overall, but not one of Wodehouse's best. But almost any Wodehouse book is worth reading for the writing style and dialogue. It is especially enjoyable if you are listening to a Wodehouse book narrated by Jonathan Cecil.
This has some great characters in it. Tubby Vanringham who is an American, and his slang upsets the oxford accented Miss Whittaker. An amiable American process server who always gets his man. Sir Buckstone Abbott who has to take in paying guests to make ...more
This has some great characters in it. Tubby Vanringham who is an American, and his slang upsets the oxford accented Miss Whittaker. An amiable American process server who always gets his man. Sir Buckstone Abbott who has to take in paying guests to make ...more
By the time I was on the last page, I had a broad smile on my face. One of the pleasures of reading master is the endings in it. There's never a bad ending. The characters who win aren't rich snobs or the people with titles. It's the common man. You root for them throughout while reading this book or any book of master. There were many twists and turns in the story and I wasn't sure which route it will go, that's the beauty of PGW. He will tell you the sort of same story in million different way
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Having read all of P.G. Wodehouse's books up to the point that SUMMER MOONSHINE was published, I've noted there are three basic type of Wodehouse stories: the relatively realistic light comedies, the completely absurb musical comedy-type stories, and those in between. This one is one of those in-betweeners, leaning, perhaps, towards the musical comedy-type. It is an in-betweener in quality as well, well-written and entertaining, but not up to Plum's best work. This is somewhat different in that,
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It is a Wodehouse Castle novel which means an entertaining read. It is not a Blandings Castle novel and contains no pigs nor Galahad Threewoods nor Uncle Freds nor Effecient Baxters nor Aunts nor imposters, so it is an average Wodehouse novel to be read when all the Blandings and Jeeves material has been read too recently to read them again.
The plot is sufficiently convoluted, there are unhappy couples which one strongly suspects will be happied in the last chapter, there is a strong male lead, ...more
The plot is sufficiently convoluted, there are unhappy couples which one strongly suspects will be happied in the last chapter, there is a strong male lead, ...more
Mar 16, 2010
Hirondelle (not getting notifications)
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it was amazing
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Jun 25, 2018
Bharath P H
marked it as to-read
