By overwhelming popular request, a thread for fans of the ultimate summer reading.
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By overwhelming popular request, a thread for fans of the ultimate summer reading.
YES!!!!!!! I didn’t even know this was being requested, but, yes!!! I LOVE P. G. Wodehouse! We even have the TV adaptations of Jeeves and Wooster on DVD…
All I know of this is that my mother suggested I read some things by him. I suppose I shall now that there’s a place to discuss it.
Who is P.G. Wodehouse? Just to shock all the fans . . .
3- It’s not shocking, I haven’t met many people who know who he is. P.G. Wodehouse (pronounced wood-house) was a british writer who created some very memorable characters, most famously [Reginald] Jeeves, the incredibly knowlegable gentleman’s personal gentleman. His stories are wonderful. I reccomend the Jeeves stories and Leave it to Psmith, which is a Psmith/Blandings story that may be the funniest P.G. Wodehouse story I’ve read.
4- Oh, him! *nods intelligently* Yes, I remember him…
I once started to read one of P.G. Wodehouse’s books (I don’t remember what it was called) and it was so funny. I love his writing style.
I’ve watched tons of the episodes. My favorite is when Jeeves first arrives. It is toooo hilarious!
Ooops! I forgot to say thank you! Thank you so much GAPAs for this thread!!!
Wodehouse? Brilliant. Just finished The Old Reliable. I’ve read waaaay too many of his books
You can track down the texts for many of his stories on Project Gutenberg:
http:// www. gutenberg.org/browse/authors/w
Wodehouse also wrote plays and song lyrics. Probably the best known of the latter is “Bill” from Showboat. He was one of the writers for Anything Goes.
WHo is P.G. Wotehouse?
10- See 4
I think P.G. w00thouse would be a more fitting name for the author who created Jeeves and Wooster.
I haven’t heard of him. I must request books from the library once I get back from camp.
I read about him in the simpsons, then wikipediaed him.
I was the one who suggested this. P.G Wodehouse is a wonderful british comedy writer. If you’re going to get one of his books, get one with Jeeves in the title. They’re about a man who inherited heaps of money, since his entire family is one of the wealthiest in England. He has no job, hence the money, and has gone to the best schools in England, but he’s a silly ass. On top of it all, almost his entire family is crazy. Then he hires a valet. Jeves he soon finds out is amazing. He can get him out of the craziest situations. None understand why he’s a valet when he could be the worlds greatest lawyer. But he’s dangerous too. As a gentleman, he has amazing fashion sense, and if Bertie (The rich, foolish man) wears something Jeeves doesn’t like, he will either refuse to help him, or make the plans work out in the end, but Bertie has to do something awful to make it work. Here’s a funny example of Jeeves, he had made a plan that had just worked perfectly. “Jeeves”,I said, “You are a marvel. “Thank you sir” “Oh and Jeeves?” “Yes sir?” “You can burn those socks you hate so much if you like.” “Thank you sir. I did so last night. Oh, and watch the movies too!
Ooh, I’ll keep this guy in mind when I go to all those used book stores this summer.
9-we’re doing anything goes next year
(yes i am such a sad theater geek that i know next year’s show…)
Lucky… they don’t announce ours ’till partway through the school year.
12-Heck, yes!
15-Who are you, really, though?
Awesome! Wodehouse’s books are HILARIOUS! In fact, I think I’ll go reread some of them right now.
Shadowkat? What do you mean?
I say, chaps, I’ve been most awfully busy for the past couple of things, and swipe me if I didn’t miss the start of the Wodehouse thread. It’s a top-hole notion, and whoever thought of it should be knighted forthwith. What do you say, Jeeves?
I endeavour to give satisfaction, sir.
Dang i haven’t been here in a while. Unfortunately my library has a very small selection of Wodehouse, but what i have read has been immensely enjoyable. It was the dear museblog that first introduced me to him. Thank you museblog. I am forever in your debt.
I will take care of being knighted. Will that be all sir?
Perhaps I could go for a stoll and muse, sir?
15-You err in your judgement, sir. Mister Wodehouse’s other works are intriguing and moreover just as entertaining as the series you referred to, sir.
I have just finished reading the book entitled Jeeves in the Morning and have nearly completed reading Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit. Will there be anything else, m’lord?
Yes there bally well will Jeeves.If you fetch me one of those concuctions of yours that do marvels on a fellow hangover, we’ll forget about the rummy business of you giving my socks to charity!
No one writes on this thread!
I do!
Me too!
Not two pigs!
33-Do you have something against pigs?
34 – I’m wondering that too….
Oh, I didn’t even notice. Yay! Two pigs! Wait, don’t you guys like pigs? *weeps* I’m highly offended.
You read The Lord of the Flies, you’ll see why.
Never read it. Never will. Ha.
THIS THREAD IS DEAD! I swear. Anyone want to deny it?
My favorite Jeeves and Wooster charecters are Spode, and Finknottle, even if they don’t exactly blend.
I love Finknottle. When people ask me what they should name their child, I always say “Archabold Finknottle”. I do not remember who Spode is.
Also know as Lord Sidcup (or so he would like to be called) Spode is obbsesed with power.
I was in Front Royal, Virginia earlier this week (near Shenandoah National Park, the reason we were there), and there was this enomorous used bookstore. Well, bigger than normal at least. It was awesome, room after room of books shelved to the ceiling. So I thought, hey, the Musebloggers love that-author-whose-name-starts-with-a-W! I should look for his books!
They had 3 of them, at about half the original price. I bought them all. They are:
Very Good, Jeeves!
Much Obliged, Jeeves!
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
So, yep, these look like they’ll be fun to read. Are they supposed to be in any order? There’s a list inside of all Wodehouse’s books, but it doesn’t seem like they’re a series.
They’re a series, but it doesn’t really matter.