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Boudewijn Rempt

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    2005-01-03

    A large pile of Wodehouse novels

    Strewn over my desk and floor was the result of a few weeks of feeling none-too-fit. So, I'm going to jot a note about all of 'em in a big entry, because otherwise I'll never find my corkscrew.

  • Enter Psmith
  • Psmith is always a pleasure to meet, and in this book, part two of the complete novel Mike, we meet him for the first time.

  • The little Nugget
  • A very early book, where Wodehouse apparently still wasn't sure whether he was writing humor or straight novels. It's fun, but one of the most date Wodehouses.

  • The Mating Season
  • The book with the immortal scene where Wooster, masquerading as Fink-Nottle teaches aunt-pecked Haddock a hunting song using the port decanter a a baton.

  • Sam the Sudden
  • One of my favorites -- a Valley Fields book.

  • The CLicking of Cuthbert
  • A new addition to my collection -- a collection of golf stories from the time when the clubs still had names.

  • Spring Fever
  • Not part of a series, but a nice country-house romp from the middle period, made better by the appearance of Augustus Robb, who is everything a personal man shouldn't be, including impertinent and a reformed house breaker.

  • Aunt's Aren't Gentlemen
  • No, definitely not... And no respect for a convalescent youngster either.

  • Jeeves in the Offing
  • Jeeves on a holiday, which leaves Bertie nicely in the soup,

  • The Luck of the Bodkins
  • I've never been able to read this one end-to-end. If there's such a thing as a boring Wodehouse novel, then this is it.

  • Young Men in Spats
  • A classic collection of shorts -- with the great tale of the hats that have gone through the fourth dimension, and the wooing of Mordred.


    2004-03-04

    Big Money

    You know, when you search for "big money" on Amazon, you get 90.975 results, and only one of those is for this paperback... What are people thinking of, nowadays? Anyway, the paperback Gutenberg offers is one of those nasty 1991 vintage Penguins with horrible ragged right margins and bad covers. I've got a nice Ionicus Penguin, which show Lord Biskerton to his best advantage...

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    Summer Moonshine

    Summer Moonshine, a novel outside any of the famous Wodehouse saga's has never been, despite the presence of several memorable characters, like the Princess Dwornitzchek and her stepson Joe, one of my favourite Wodehouse novels.

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    Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

    My copy of this perfectly formed Jeeves and Wooster story has a very nice cover of Ian Carmichael and Dennis Price in the B.B.C. T.V. series "The World of Wooster", or so it claims. I've never seen the television series -- but the cover certainly is evocative, even though I rather think that Bertie Wooster -- despite complaints about no longer revelling in the clubs like a cub -- is a little younger.

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    2004-02-11

    Quick Service

    P.G. Wodehouse

    Another of those delightful standalone novels in the vein of Uneasy Money, even though written 23 years later, about a young, likeable man who meets a young, capable girl.

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    2004-02-02

    Uneasy Money

    Uneasy Money is a Wodehouse novel that I find myself returning to time and again. It is an early novel, written 1917, and therefore available from Project Gutenberg, and isn't part of any of the saga's Wodehouse is famous for.

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    2003-11-29

    Right Ho, Jeeves

    By P.G. Wodehouse
    Reviewed by Boudewijn Rempt on November 29, 2003

    A Pelican at Blandings is the quintessential Blandings story; Right Ho, Jeeves is the quintessential Jeeves and Wooster story.

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    A Pelican at Blandings

    By P.G. Wodehouse
    Reviewed by Boudewijn Rempt on November 29, 2003

    A perfect gem of a Wodehouse, one of the Blandings stories I most often reread — I was surprised I hadn't already read A Pelican at Blandings this year. But my Fading Memories log says not, so there...

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    Cocktail Time

    By P.G. Wodehouse
    Reviewed by Boudewijn Rempt on November 29, 2003

    Lord Ickenham is a Wodehouse character who can be counted upon to spread a bit of lightness around whenever he can escape from the stranglehold of his wife to the vast wildernesses of London.

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    2003-11-03

    The Man Upstairs

    By P.G. Wodehouse
    Reviewed by Boudewijn Rempt on November 03, 2003

    My father-in-law bought, or received, this copy of The Man Upstairs in 1939, and he has apparently read it to pieces. Early Wodehouse, and this is very early, ca. 1914, is far less exuberant than the product of his old age. This is apprentice-work, not quite mature, but full of promise.

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