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Thank You, Jeeves (1934)

by P.G. Wodehouse(Favorite Author)

4.26 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0393345998 (ISBN13: 9780393345995)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

series

Jeeves

review 1: Tip top Wodehouse. Bertie has thrown himself into learning the banjolele much to Jeeves' dismay. A satisfying novel-length tale. I enjoyed the new butlers likely communist sympathies "at lead the could be cheerful about it while he plans my murder" or words to that effect muses Bertie. This also allows Wodehouse to reprise (repeat?) his old joke from "Comrade Bingo" from the early 1920s, in which he so nicely skewers the pretensions and absurdities of radical communist groups, in describing the Man servant sprinting down ParkLane with a blood dripping knife murdering the bourgeoisie.
review 2: Well-written humor is very hard to find. I love the way Wodehouse uses narrator Bertie Wooster to describe outrageous situations in a deadpan way. For instance, "'Oh, I'... morem not complaining,' said Chuffy, looking rather like Saint Sebastian on receipt of about the fifteenth arrow."I was amazed to see that what I thought was current slang was in use in 1934: "And in saying this I am looking straight at little Seabury, a child who should have been strangled at birth." The screwball comedy plot wore thin after a while; I may stick to the short stories in the future. Nonetheless, the novel was a treat. less

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