What Are You Reading? 3
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The Mad Collector said:
Going through a Jeeves and Wooster marathon at the moment. The three volumes of short stories folowed by the 11 novels. Up to novel 4 (The Mating Season) so far. 
If I told you how much I love PG Wodehouse, you'd feel sullied and unusual.
I have recently purchased a few Blandings Castle novels which I'm bursting to read.
Onya Mad, it's always a pleasure to know someone who reads Wodehouse. I hope you enjoy every single word of them.
Sister, I think I've ready everything Plum ever wrote, including many of less-then-steller early novels and short stories.
His characters and stories had as much as depth as tin foil, he used the same four plots over and over, and his characters never left their artificial bubble of the 1920s. Yet, other than Pterry perhaps, there's no other writer, English or otherwise, who could consistently raise the most cliched and dog-eared plot point into euphoria with one of his crystalline perfect phrases or lines of dialogue.
His characters and stories had as much as depth as tin foil, he used the same four plots over and over, and his characters never left their artificial bubble of the 1920s. Yet, other than Pterry perhaps, there's no other writer, English or otherwise, who could consistently raise the most cliched and dog-eared plot point into euphoria with one of his crystalline perfect phrases or lines of dialogue.
Well said raisindot. I like his sense of humour and his piss-taking of the well-to-do. Most of all, like you said, it's his use of words and phrases that keeps me reading & re-reading. He's a master wordsmith. It was from reading blurb's on DW books, such as, 'Pratchett is a modern day Wodehouse', that got me wondering who this Wodehouse was. I'm glad I found out.
Happy reading
Happy reading
Jeeves and Wooster marathon continues, now reached novel 4, Joy in the Morning. I've read all of them before, some several times but never one after the other or even in the right order. I'm really enjoying it as I get immersed in the characters and the sheer quality of the writing. I've got my father reading the short stories now
Good to see fellow Wodehouse fans around
Good to see fellow Wodehouse fans around
My M.I.L. bought me The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom. Haven't read anything else of his. Heard people rave about The 5 People You Meet in Heaven, but never had an interest in reading it. Can I just say that this book is mind-numbingly boring? Has anyone else read it? I think it's destined for the donation bin.
Don't know what she would make of a Pratchett! It would definitely have to be Good Omens though. She gives us weird DVDs as well. She bought us Escanaba in da Moonlight (I think that's what it's called) about a hunting trip in the UP (upper peninsula of Michigan). I think she got it for us because it was written by and stars Jeff Daniels. He was born here and still lives here, although I've never figured out where exactly. We've never even watched it. That's another one I should donate.
It would definitely have to be Good Omens though. She gives us weird DVDs as well. She bought us Escanaba in da Moonlight (I think that's what it's called) about a hunting trip in the UP (upper peninsula of Michigan). I think she got it for us because it was written by and stars Jeff Daniels. He was born here and still lives here, although I've never figured out where exactly. We've never even watched it. That's another one I should donate.I can't stand him. "Five People" was like a spiritual Nicholas Sparks book--sentimental, cloying, manipulative. His first bestseller "Tuesdays with Morrie" painted the Morrie of the title as this benevolent, wise, Buddha-like saint. Well, I was working at Brandeis University (where Morrie was a professor), and Morrie was a frequent visitor to the school where I worked. He was a cranky, imperious, self-important academic snob who didn't want to talk to anyone without a Ph.D. unless he wanted them to do something for him (like get him coffee or be his wheelchair rickshaw boy). Approach Albom with a grain of salt.
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