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Pearls, Girls And Monty Bodkin

P.G. Wodehouse

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Apr 25, 2017 Nate rated it liked it

It was okay. Not my favorite Wodehouse book, though. I really liked the one before this, The Luck of the Bodkins, and I was disappointed by the plot to this one: (view spoiler) ...more

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Jun 05, 2021 Joe Stevens rated it liked it

Been there done that before to better effect with both Monty Bodkin and the villainous Malloys and Chimp Twist. This is the third to the last book on the long road down the Wodehouse fictional bibliography and age is starting to do more than creep up on the great author. At over 90 something had to give and sadly this is the book that saw the gentle decline go into a dive.

The same not quite jokes are recycled at times on the same page. Rather than the rapids of laughter in earlier works, the gen ...more

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Mar 17, 2011 Hirondelle (not getting notifications) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: laughing-out-loud

The first Bodkins solo book was published around in 1935, prime Wodehouse period. This direct sequel was published in 1972, 37 years later. Now that is some wait for a sequel.

I do not like Wodehouse post-WW2 novels (apart from a couple of exceptions, all Blandings) as much as his pre-WW2 novels. Something is gone, if only some sort of spirit. Here is prime example of something missing, particularly when directly compared to Luck of the Bodkins, some extravagance, some something.

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Oct 08, 2022 Suryamouli Datta rated it it was amazing

As all Plum novels are, complicated, funny and possessing a must have - happy ending - that always provokes us to visit the world created by him again and again.

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