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Summary: Great book
Comment: Purchased this book for my older teen son who loves to read - he loved it and could be heard laughing throughout the book. he can't wait to read more of the series.
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Summary: Cute, but I wouldn't want a whole diet of Bertie Wooster
Comment: Amusing but without chapter breaks it tends to run together. Everyone must have a Jeeves story in their library. I've got mine, enjoyed it, and will now move on.
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Summary: The course of true love never runs true.....
Comment: particularly when Bertie Wooster lends a hand.
Once again all the principals are in place, Bertie Wooster has returned from a few weeks on the Riviera with one of his numerous Aunts to discover his man Jeeves has taken to giving advice of the romantic sort to Bertie's pals. Since Bertie and Jeeves are engaged in one of their many battles of will over Bertie's wardrobe Bertie quickly decides to take over the task. Soon Bertie finds himself in a stately country home, and embroiled in a romance himself! With more than a few hilarious twists and turns all ends up well, but not before Jeeves has arrived on the scene.
In the Wodehouse world it is always that lovely era between the Wars when smart young things had the time and money to spend long weekends in stately English country houses to recuperate from nights spent at the theatre and various nightclubs. Everyone knows everyone else and still manages to become involved in complicated misunderstandings that would make Shakespeare proud.
Fans of the 1eeves and Wooster series featuring Frye and Laurie will undoubtedly recognize this one, but knowing how the story ends will in no way diminish the delight of reading about the misadventures along the way.
This review is based on the Kindle version of the novel, a particular delight since it was located and delivered on a dreary night in a matter of minutes at no charge.
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Summary: Jolly good, I say
Comment: Being a fan of PBS TV. I enjoy British comedy(Laurie and Fry) in the Wooster and Jeeves series. The P.G. Wodehouse books are 'spot on', I say. I find myself reading the novels in the speech pattern that Laurie and Fry use in the tv series. Mr. Wodehouse uses words that I have never seen before, causing me to keep a dictionary handy.
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Summary: This is Wodehouse's masterpiece
Comment: RHJ is certainly the best Wodehouse novel although some of the Mulliner, Golf, and Ukridge short stories may score higher if you're giving points for brevity ("pound for pound" funnyness). On the other hand, maybe not. Every line of RHJ is funny and beautiful as well. Yes, as another reviewer said, it's easy to read, but it also rewards rereading many times. Like Mozart, it's quite a bit more complicated than it sounds at first.
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read further until you have read the book!
Question to consider AFTER reading: is Bertie a Christ-figure? He does, after all, redeem the story's universe through his suffering. Which is caused by (apparent) betrayal. And, to which he is more-or-less legitimately condemned for stirring up the community. If yes, how many Passion-analogues can get away with having the Christ-figure be the first-person narrator? How many succeed this well at getting the reader to identify with him? Not many. As I said, I think this piece may be deeper than it appears.
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