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Mar 14, 2019
Shannon Cooke
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I was all set and ready to dislike this book. (What? Shawn, dislike a Wodehouse book? Read on.)
Another of the school stories, The White Feather takes some of the worst aspects of the schoolboy culture and raises it front and center. Scholastic achievement? Worthless. Sport is all that matters. Are you a shy kid who doesn't like fighting? Better be willing to get into a fight that one of your schoolmates starts -- for fun! -- because if not, you're branded as a coward and considered a disgrace. T ...more
Another of the school stories, The White Feather takes some of the worst aspects of the schoolboy culture and raises it front and center. Scholastic achievement? Worthless. Sport is all that matters. Are you a shy kid who doesn't like fighting? Better be willing to get into a fight that one of your schoolmates starts -- for fun! -- because if not, you're branded as a coward and considered a disgrace. T ...more
Another Wodehouse school boy book that is hard to recommend except for those reading straight through The Master's works or for someone who loves turn of the century school life and boxing. This is better than most of the others in the school series with a sympathetic hero. Sadly the plot is very obvious and has little drama nor is there much humor in the book which will surprise those who have read the great Wodehouse books of the mid 1920s and beyond.
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Not humorous but surely very interesting.
Aug 23, 2022
Ezra
marked it as to-read
