The Inimitable Jeeves (BBC Radio Collection)

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Published Feb. 21, 2005 by BBC Audiobooks.

ISBN:
978-0-563-52552-3
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OCLC Number:
64191953

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5 stars (2 reviews)

Bertie and Jeeves do their best to help, and occasionally hinder, love-struck Bingo Little as he falls head over heels and back again. Honoria Glossop, Mabel the waitress, and gold-toothed revolutionary Charlotte Corday Rowbotham are just a few of the women to cast their spells over Bingo. Meanwhile Bertie must keep the quick-tempered, aspiring actor Bassington-Bassington from the stage at Aunt Agatha's fiery behest, deal with the energetic Claude and Eustace, and win on the girls' Egg and Spoon Race and money lost to the Great Sermon Handicap! Luckily, of course, there is Jeeves: intelligent, loyal, and capable of extricating Bertie from the tightest of tight spots.

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reviewed The Inimitable Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse

Very Well Crafted, Had Trouble Clicking With It

4 stars

This is one of those books where me rating it highly is more a matter of recognizing it's well crafted that feeling fully bought in. The characters were funny and the language was very artfully crafted, but I still had trouble feeling excited about it for some reason.

I do enjoy that there's a little edge to the entire situation. Jeeves is a thousand times more competent than Wooster. Is the class system just so powerful that this is the best Jeeves can do, or is Jeeves in it just because it's easy and he enjoys messing with Bertie?

No big urge to jump into another one, but I will revisit when I'm in a different mood.

reviewed The Inimitable Jeeves (World Classics in Large Print) by P. G. Wodehouse

Need a little fun in your reading?

5 stars

If you’ve got a book hangover from reading something intense and you just need something light and fun to help you recover, this is your book. Bertie Wooster’s silly notions are beautifully balanced by Jeeves' big brain and common sense. Bertie gets himself into trouble, and Jeeves gets him out. Along the way, you’ll laugh and recover from your hangover. Give Jeeves and Wooster a chance. You can thank me later.

Subjects

  • Modern fiction
  • Fiction