![]() Bingo and Bertie and the various other people drifting through their lives (or careening madly through, as the case may be) are fairly zany, but Jeeves’ calm understatement is frequently the comedy gold, in a very dry sort of way. These are definitely a very particular type of humor. ![]() Either way, Bertie usually manages to make the situation worse before Jeeves ultimately solves it with an ingenious manipulation of human nature. Or, alternatively, he tries to go it alone because he and Jeeves are on the outs, probably because Bertie is making a firm stance around a flamboyant article of clothing which Jeeves disapproves of. The premise was much the same as it was throughout the short stories: English gentleman Bertie Wooster gets into some sort of social scrape–or has a friend in said-scrape, in this book frequently Bingo Wilcox, who falls in love a good half-dozen times throughout the book–and turns to his utterly unruffled manservant Jeeves for help. This one was more properly a novel, but still very much episodic. This is the thirdish Jeeves book I’ve read–the previous two were both short story collections and turned out to have some overlapping. ![]() I am happy to report much hilarity was found. Wodehouse and an audiobook of The Inimitable Jeeves. In my quest for more funny reads this year, I turned to P.G. ![]()
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