I just picked up Mulligan Nights at the library's used book sale, and enjoyed it (read through it completely in the hour it took to get my car serviced).... which, in my normal obsessive-compulsive fashion, means that I'm now thinking about picking up any other P.G. Wodehouse books. Does anyone have any recommendations on which books to hunt down avidly (or conversely, is there anything I should avoid like the plague)? -Lydiahttps://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,72113,72113#msg-72113Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:24:27 +0100 Phorum 5.2.22 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,72113,72402#msg-72402 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,72113,72402#msg-72402The Code of the Woosters, as well. The only problem I have is I can only usually read a book every so often; too many at once and it gets overwhelming, like watching an 8-hour marathon of half-hour sitcoms.

The Blandings Castle were very fun, although I don't think I ever read the last in that series. I did see Summer Lightening when it was being put on by the theatre in Keswick, and have to say that the characters when they're "real" are just that much more insane. I tend to classify Wodehouse in the same vein as Gilbert and Sullivan: hilarious, but don't expect any motive to really make that much sense.]]> Kathy JAFF LibraryThu, 28 Jul 2011 20:45:14 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,72113,72353#msg-72353 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,72113,72353#msg-72353
Thanks for the hint of project Gutenberg!]]> Kati JAFF LibraryWed, 27 Jul 2011 10:44:20 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,72113,72333#msg-72333 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,72113,72333#msg-72333
I must apologize on one count, though - there was a grievous mistake in my original post - my spell checker auto-corrected "Mulliner Nights" to "Mulligan Nights" and I missed it. Sorry!

-Lydia]]> Lydia JAFF LibraryTue, 26 Jul 2011 10:55:28 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,72113,72129#msg-72129 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,72113,72129#msg-72129The Code of the Woosters is my favorite Wodehouse novel. It is part of the Bertie Wooster and Jeeves series, and it involves an aunt, several unlikely engagements, a comic fascist, and a cow creamer. Aunts, engagements, and comic fascists are common in the Jeeves books, but the cow creamer is unique and very memorable. I read most of the other Jeeves books many years ago, but I don't remember which is which, and there is the extra annoyance that some of the books have different US vs UK titles. All the Jeeves books are fun. It doesn't matter what order you read them in.

If you are fond of pigs, the Blandings Castle books are cute, although if you don't find overblown discussions of pigs to be the funniest thing ever, you may want to give that series a miss. I enjoyed Heavy Weather, but the pig jokes got very very old. I'd say something about flogging a dead horse, but that would be too many farm animals for one post. Wodehouse can also be a bit too interested in golf, although some people don't mind that sort of thing.

Wodehouse wrote tons of books. You will have lots to enjoy. Now I want to download a few more from Project Gutenberg, too.]]> Margaret D JAFF LibraryThu, 21 Jul 2011 13:41:44 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,72113,72120#msg-72120 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,72113,72120#msg-72120French Leave, Frozen Assets and The Small Bachelor. At least, I think they are. The editions I have are all out of print, dating from the '60s and '70s, but I think I've got the titles right. I also quite liked Big Money and Barmy in Wonderland. I'm not sure at the moment what other books of his I read; I may also have got some through the library.

Oh, and I just discovered that I do own a couple of Jeeves and Wooster that somehow, I never got around to reading and then forgot about. (In my defense, I got those with a stack of other books from my grandma's shelves after her death.)]]> Mari A. JAFF LibraryThu, 21 Jul 2011 10:48:29 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,72113,72119#msg-72119 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,72113,72119#msg-72119
Funnily enough, I've never read any Jeeves and Wooster - I got my collection by nicking it from my dad's and grandma's bookshelves, so I had to make do with what was there to be, err, re-appropriated.]]> Mari A. JAFF LibraryThu, 21 Jul 2011 10:33:10 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,72113,72116#msg-72116 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,72113,72116#msg-72116Project Gutenberg has them all for free I believe. Enjoy reading, because his books are definitely (this may sound slightly sacrilegious) on par with Austen's and Twain's.]]> Terry JAFF LibraryThu, 21 Jul 2011 04:10:42 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,72113,72113#msg-72113 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,72113,72113#msg-72113Mulligan Nights at the library's used book sale, and enjoyed it (read through it completely in the hour it took to get my car serviced).... which, in my normal obsessive-compulsive fashion, means that I'm now thinking about picking up any other P.G. Wodehouse books. Does anyone have any recommendations on which books to hunt down avidly (or conversely, is there anything I should avoid like the plague)?

-Lydia]]> Lydia JAFF LibraryThu, 21 Jul 2011 02:36:04 +0100