Review: My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
A series of hijinks in New York City with a hapless English gentleman and his ingenious valet!
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Vintage Fiction | Humor | Short Stories
My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Description
Come along for a series of hijinks in New York City with a hapless English gentleman, Bertie Wooster, and his ingenious valet, Jeeves! Granted, you'll spend half the time here with Reggie Pepper—an early Wooster prototype, don't you know.
My Thoughts
Tee-HEE! Sheer entertainment for the jolly good "PG" fun of it.
I'd heard the names of Wodehouse and his character Jeeves on various occasions and wanted to try a different author's "homage" novel to Wodehouse, but I thought I'd better start with some of the original author's writing first. And it didn't disappoint.
I found this collection of short stories to be refreshingly vintage, comfortably clever, and light on its toes. I certainly laughed out loud at some moments that punctuated the quirky and generally humorous nature of it all for me.
There was only one area of the humor that I really didn't care for, referencing King Herod and infants, but that moment was brief.
I had little idea before just how many Jeeves and Jeeves-related (and Wooster-like) stories this author wrote. I’ve got more of 'em to try out.
Content notes: Besides the “King Herod” reference (which a revised version of that story leaves out in another collection, Carry On, Jeeves), a few of the other stories in this collection have brief mentions of off-page violence, handled with humor and without very graphic details.
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