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| Original Title: | Much Obliged, Jeeves |
| ISBN: | 0743203623 (ISBN13: 9780743203623) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Jeeves #14 |
| Characters: | Reginald Jeeves, Dahlia Travers, Bertram Wilberforce Wooster, Anatole, Madeline Basset, Agatha Wooster, Florence Craye, Percy Gorringe, George Webster Fittleworth, Thomas Portarlington Travers, Hildebrand Glossop, Angela Travers, Seppings, Claude Cattermole Potter-Pirbright, Rupert Bingley, Harold Winship, Magnolia Glendennon, L.P. Runkle, Mrs. McCorkadale, Bastable |
P.G. Wodehouse
Paperback | Pages: 205 pages Rating: 4.23 | 4800 Users | 347 Reviews
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| Title | : | Jeeves and the Tie That Binds (Jeeves #14) |
| Author | : | P.G. Wodehouse |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 205 pages |
| Published | : | November 1st 2000 by Touchstone (first published October 15th 1971) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Humor. Classics. Comedy |
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A Bertie and Jeeves classic, featuring the Junior Ganymede, a Market Snodsbury election, and the Observer crossword puzzle. Jeeves, who has saved Bertie Wooster so often in the past, may finally prove to be the unwitting cause of this young master's undoing in Jeeves and the Tie that Binds. The Junior Ganymede, a club for butlers in London's fashionable West End, requires every member to provide details about the fellow he is working for. When information is inadvertently revealed to a dangerous source, it falls to Jeeves to undo the damage.Rating Regarding Books Jeeves and the Tie That Binds (Jeeves #14)
Ratings: 4.23 From 4800 Users | 347 ReviewsWeigh Up Regarding Books Jeeves and the Tie That Binds (Jeeves #14)
Even below par Jeeves and Wooster is still pretty good.Madeline Bassett, Roderick Spode, Aunt Dahlia all return in this latest instalment of sundered engagements, purloined silver ornaments, obstinate moneymen and the kind of fiendishly tricky problems which can only be neatly ironed out by almost deity-like butler with a huge brain he owes to his consumption of masses of fish. All is seemingly as it should be then. However theres a decided lack of oomph in this volume of the Wooster memoirs.I had remembered really enjoying this book when I read it several years ago, but then I think I let my mind do a number on me. It's late Wodehouse, written when the master was 90, and most of the very late Wodehouse I've read seems very thin and forced. But on rereading this one, I found that my positive memories were correct. While not without some minor flaws, it's very good - nearly the equal of Wodehouse in his prime. The web of conflicting interests and alliances is woven as well as ever,
There were great moments of pure 'Jeeves-essence' and I did enjoy it but I am not sure why not more. Perhaps it was not the best time to listen to it...[I was listening to Frederick Davidson's reading and although he wasn't Johnatan Cecil, he did a good job. He was the second-best, after Mr Cecil]
I just had to squeeze in a Wodehouse for Christmas, and how wonderful it was. I can't believe I almost finished the Jeeves and Wooster series (woe and woe upon woe); when the fatal moment inevitably arrives, I'll be seeking solace in the Blandings Castle series.
The book read like a montage to Bertie and Jeeves with a handful of references to the best parts of their previous adventures. And yet, it has you in splits - like any good thing in ration.Bertie wakes up on top of the world, with a rainbow between his shoulders - And we know thunderstorm is imminent. Bertie's pal Ginger is contesting elections. Bertie's safely engaged lady terrors threaten to come unhinged towards him and his 'reputation' for pinching stuff threatening the good name of
Visiting his Aunt Dahlia, Bertie is confronted once again by Spode, as well as a businessmen who suspects him of being a thief, Madeline Bassett perhaps wanting to marry him, and the perplexing problem of how to reconcile his pal Ginger with the secretary of his dreams when hes actually engaged to the bossy Florence. The usual lunacy results, with some quick acting by Jeeves, of course, to straighten things out.Perhaps the most remarkable things about this book, given that it was written by
Surely below par for something in the Jeeves series. May be because the master wrote this in his nineties, he couldn't match his own towering standards. There is always a certain level of repetition in Wodehouse's plots, but in this one it was unusually high. Wodehouse's usual bubbling vigour was less-pronounced, the comic possibilities were under-explored, there was an over-reliance on Bertie's stammering and word-groping, and even some of his trademark daft turns of phrase seemed subdued and
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