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Title: Uncle Fred In The Springtime by P. G. Wodehouse, P.G.Wodehouse, The Overlook Press ISBN: 1-58567-527-X Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: 12 April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: My All-Time Favorite Book
Comment: This is my very favorite book, and I have been reading it about once a year for the past 15 years or so. I still laugh out loud at every reading. The very complex plot deals with Pongo Twistleton and his Uncle Fred, who visit Blandings Castle as imposters (Sir Roderick Glossip and his secretary, to be exact) in an effort to prevent the Duke of Dunstable from stealing the Empress of Blandings, Lord Emsworth's prize pig, and to keep him from smashing the drawing room furniture with the fireplace poker. Polly Pott (daughter of private investigator Mustard Pott) is also in attendance, pretending to be Sir Roderick's daughter. The story also involves the Duke's two nephews and their romantic problems: It seems Horace Davenport has hired a private investigator (none other than Mustard Pott) to tail his fiancee Valerie (Pongo's sister) and she has called off the engagement as a result, and Ricky's jealousy of his fiancee's attention to cousin Horace has landed him in the onion soup. Money won and lost at Persian Monarchs, the slipping of mickey's into people's drinks, and a Duke who throws eggs at people who whistle The Bonny Bonny Banks of Lock Lomand outside his window add to the hilarity. Of course, Mr. Wodehouse's unique turn-of-phrase doesn't disappoint in this delightful novel. I recommend this book to anyone who seeks diversion from reality. A must-read.
Rating: 5
Summary: scrumptious!
Comment: A complete Wodehouse fanatic, I would have trouble giving less that five stars to anything I have read so far. Uncle Fred is a particularly good one to add to the guest room bookshelf----incredibly funny and nice light reading for a few days away from home.
Rating: 5
Summary: There is only one Wodehouse!
Comment: If you have ever read "Elements of Style" by Strunk and White (and if you haven't, then you should be legally prohibited from writing even so much as a thank-you note), then this book, like all Wodehouse books, is a perfect example of how to violate almost every rule in the book.
Consider the following: "The ninth Earl of Emsworth was a man who in times of stress always tended to resemble the Aged Parent in an old-fashioned melodrama when informed that the villain intended to foreclose the mortgage. He wore now a disintegrated air, as if somebody had removed most of his interior organs. You see the same sort of thing in stuffed parrots when the sawdust has leaked out of them."
How's that for failing to "omit needless words"? And how's that for vividly portraying the feeble-minded Lord Emsworth, one of Wodehouse's most memorable of his many memorable and hilarious characters?
The plot here is typical Wodehouse: a few love-stricken young people see their dreams of eternal wedded bliss threatened by either misunderstandings or lack of cash or both, and a young ne'er-do-well has run up some gambling debts, a circumstance which puts him in danger of some painful bone-crushing. Enter Uncle Fred, an aging playboy with a manipulative mind and a sense of adventure. He orchestrates a plan involving a visit to Blandings Castle (the Emsworth estate) which results in everyone living happily ever after.
But, of course, that plot outline is pretty much the plot outline of every Wodehouse novel. What makes it (and every Wodehouse production) a 5-star novel is the delicious phraseology, the preposterous and yet believable characterizations, and the continuous twinkle in the author's eye. You either "get" Wodehouse or you don't. If you don't, then go to a doctor and get it fixed immediately!
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Title: Ring For Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse, P.G.Wodehouse, The Overlook Press ISBN: 1585675245 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: 12 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Much Obliged, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse, The Overlook Press ISBN: 1585675261 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: 12 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Quick Service by P. G. Wodehouse, P.G.Wodehouse, The Overlook Press ISBN: 1585675237 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: 12 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Leave It to Psmith by P. G. Wodehouse ISBN: 158567432X Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: UKRIDGE by P.G. Wodehouse, P. G. Wodehouse ISBN: 1585674796 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: 11 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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