by P.G. Wodehouse
This slim volume was first published in 1960 and appears three quarters of the way down the lengthy list of Wodehouse novels featuring the inestimable Jeeves. In fact, in this episode the celebrated gentleman’s valet quickly departs for a holiday in Herne Bay, Kent and helps decide Bertie Wooster to...
Jeeves was right, but that title is wrong!The statement in title form, How Right You Are, Jeeves does two things. It tells you that Jeeves is going to offer up correct advice, as per usual. It also leads you to believe that Jeeves will play a large role in said title, and that is not the case. They ...
Jeeves in the Offing (Jeeves #12) by P.G. Wodehouse My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a short little book by Wodehouse. It was a lot of fun, but not as much as the other ones. It was probably because I missed Jeeves. He is gone from most of the book, off on a holiday, and he was sorely missed.
i was quite disappointed by this one. reading a wooster without jeeves is just as frustrating as reading a jeeves without wooster -- without their special chemistry the characters are jaded and not as fun. i would not recommend to an enthusiast. i would just tell them to read thank you jeeves or cod...
Briefly, Wodehouse's Jeeves novels are essential reading for my sanity. Even though the plots run through a generally familiar comedy of errors from one novel to the next, there is always something delightful and charming in Wodehouse's style of telling it.Like no other author, Wodehouse puts me in ...
The Fry and Laurie series got me into the books, and this one is perhaps my favorite of all the Jeeves stories.
[These notes were made in 1982:]. Like all Wodehouse, very silly, very amusing. I find it is not so much the situations which set me chuckling - they're pretty standard sit-com stuff: duckings in water, getting caught hunting in someone's room, etc. - as the idiosyncratic language in which the whol...