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2013 Book Review #27: Right Ho, Jeeves
Title: Right Ho, Jeeves
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Genre: Humorous fiction (historical--early 20th C)
Thingummies: 5
Synopsis: Bertie Wooster is fed up with everyone going to Jeeves to solve their problems. He's going to fix his old mates' respective romantic crises himself. And his aunt's marital woes. And soothe the cook's hurt feelings. And...err...
Thoughts: A perfect example of the famous Jeeves and Wooster dynamic--an effortless creampuff of a book. Wooster is charmingly idiotic, his friends and relations perfectly ridiculous, the situations increasingly absurd (yet following logically from Wooster's increasingly absurd machinations), and then Jeeves saves the day in his usual economical fashion. There's a reason Wodehouse is a gold standard for humor. Is this deep literature? Don't be silly. But it's a near perfect example of what it set out to be--light, witty, and remarkably clever.
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Genre: Humorous fiction (historical--early 20th C)
Thingummies: 5
Synopsis: Bertie Wooster is fed up with everyone going to Jeeves to solve their problems. He's going to fix his old mates' respective romantic crises himself. And his aunt's marital woes. And soothe the cook's hurt feelings. And...err...
Thoughts: A perfect example of the famous Jeeves and Wooster dynamic--an effortless creampuff of a book. Wooster is charmingly idiotic, his friends and relations perfectly ridiculous, the situations increasingly absurd (yet following logically from Wooster's increasingly absurd machinations), and then Jeeves saves the day in his usual economical fashion. There's a reason Wodehouse is a gold standard for humor. Is this deep literature? Don't be silly. But it's a near perfect example of what it set out to be--light, witty, and remarkably clever.
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I don't remember what ones I've read. I know there was one omnibus with a preface from the author explaining how he keeps swearing no more omnibuses, but then he thinks, well, just a little story, and next thing he knows he's got another one.