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Title: The Jeeves Omnibus #5
Series: Jeeves Omnibus #5.3
Author: PG Wodehouse
Rating: 4 of 5 Stars
Genre: Humor
Pages: 120
Words: 43K
| Synopsis: |
A trio of short stories consisting of:
Extricating Young Gussie
Jeeves Makes An Omelette
Jeeves and the Greasy Bird
| My Thoughts: |
This was a fitting end to the Jeeves and Wooster Omnibus series. While each of the short stories had been published before, they had never been published in one volume.
Nothing spectacular but at the same time I think the short story format works best for the Jeeves and Wooster stories. There’s only so much Bertie Wooster one can stomach in one go and short stories allow one to dash in for a bite, then skip out again until one is hungry for another bite. Whereas a novel forces you to sit down at the monstrously huge mahogany table with the Edwardian chairs and dine on each course as they are served to one. That is great if Chef Anatole is doing the cooking, but if it’s Chef Boyardee, well, that’s a different matter altogether!
I started this Jeeves Omnibus read back in April of 2018 with Thank You, Jeeves. Here I am now, 2 ½ years later, finishing things up. I have loved reading this and looked forward to them each time. Some were definitely better or worse than others but I never regretted my time reading these.
Given the nature of this series, if I ever choose to do a re-read, I suspect I’ll only re-read the stories that got 4stars from me. But who knows? Wodehouse tickles my funny bone and very few authors can do that as consistently as he has done.
So let’s give 3 cheers for Jeeves and Wooster, give a hearty “What Ho” to their antics and then have some tea to cool ourselves off from all that exertion. Pip, pip, cheerio and God save the Queen, govnah!
What Ho! Whoop whoop, glad you are finishing a series up and that Jeeves has kept going as well as it did for you.
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I was very glad this ended as well as it did. 😀
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Five out of six and a half for the passable rhyming slang here! Stone the crows, I think he’s got it Mr Higgins!
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I’ll be James Bond before you know it! well, JB in disguise as a homeless person in London maybe.
But who is this Higgins fellow? Does he have secret level clearance to be throwing stones at the crows on our secret base?
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Sigh. henry Higgins? Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw? My Fair Lady? Professor Henry Higgins, delighted by Eliza’s ability to transform herself, shouting ‘She’s got it!’ That was the reference…
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Don’t you just hate it when you have to explain something? I’ve never seen that movie, just read the book in highschool, so I’m afraid the reference flew right over my head.
Well, it kicked me in the head as it flew over, because I got Henry Higgins mixed up with Henry Huggins, the character created by Beverly Cleary in the 1950’s, but since they share nothing beyond the name “Henry”, there is just no intersection.
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So who is Henry Huggins, aside from what you’ve just said?
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He was a 10year old boy who Cleary wrote a series about. Boys adventure novels around the neighborhood kind of thing.
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Every day is a boy’s neighbourhood adventure
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Pretty much. they have no idea how lucky they are.
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Well done Sirrah!
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Thank you. I figure I’ll take ’21 off from Wodehouse and then start back up with the Blandings Castle series in ’22. It is good to have plans 😀
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Congrats on finishing! Does this mean you’ll be adding a new series into your rotation?
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Yes it does. And with dnf’ing Blackwing the other day, that gets rid of that trilogy, so there will be a couple of new series for me to dive into 😀
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Woo hoo, I hope they prove to be good ones!
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Me too! Now I just need to figure out which books are due for their time in the spotlight.
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Sometimes, Jeeves and Bertie are just the ticket. They saved my sanity, once, during a very stressful season of life. But, yes, they are the literary equivalent of cotton candy.
Also … shout-out to Henry Huggins, Otis Spofford, Ellen Tibbits, and the Quimby girls! And Ribsy!
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That is an excellent analogy. Perfectly sweet but no substance and easily overdosed on 😀 But still delicious!
Read that back and forth, did you? Sometimes I wonder if anyone else notices. So thanks 🙂
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Glad you liked this one. Hey, that comment notification problem on my blog, that was with the app, right?
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Unfortunately, it was not. I am using the full reader on the chrome browser with my cache recently cleared.
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Hooray for a successful run! I’m glad to hear how this one really works for you when it comes to its comedic tone. Not often easy for some to find the right kind of comedy for them! 😀
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Comedy is so hard to get right. I’m sure I clicked with Wodehouse AND that he was a prolific writer 🙂
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