Dan Schwent's Reviews > Jeeves in the Offing
Jeeves in the Offing (Jeeves, #12)
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bookshelves: wodehouse, 2023, 2023-books
Feb 07, 2008
bookshelves: wodehouse, 2023, 2023-books
Read 3 times. Last read November 14, 2023 to November 20, 2023.
I last read this in 2005, I think. I bought it used and it looked like it came over on the Mayflower so it shouldn't have been a surprise when my son picked it up by the cover last night and it fell apart. Luckily, I found a much snazzier hardcover edition at Half Price Books earlier today so I was able to finish it without taping it back together.
Anyway, after waking up to find out he's engaged to Bobbie Wickham by reading it in the newspaper, Bertie is called to Brinkley Court to keep Willie Cream from proposing to Phillis Mills. Meanwhile, a silver cow creamer has gone missing and Bobbie Wickham's ex and Bertie's school chum, Kipper Herring, has come to win her back...
So yeah, this is another version of Wodehouse's tale of shit hitting the fan and Jeeves showing up to provide an umbrella just in time and, as always, he tells it very well. I didn't even mention noted loony-doctor Roderick Glossop and Mrs. Cream. As always, the reversals of fortune and revelations are impeccably times and the wordplay is top notch. Wodehouse makes it all look frightfully easy so it's a guarantee that it was a real dachshund to write.
"I'd always thought her half baked but now I think they didn't ever put her in the oven" was one of my favorite lines from the last quarter of the book but it's peppered with hilarious lines. I don't think this is a top tier Wodehouse but it was a very enjoyable read. Four out of five stars.
Anyway, after waking up to find out he's engaged to Bobbie Wickham by reading it in the newspaper, Bertie is called to Brinkley Court to keep Willie Cream from proposing to Phillis Mills. Meanwhile, a silver cow creamer has gone missing and Bobbie Wickham's ex and Bertie's school chum, Kipper Herring, has come to win her back...
So yeah, this is another version of Wodehouse's tale of shit hitting the fan and Jeeves showing up to provide an umbrella just in time and, as always, he tells it very well. I didn't even mention noted loony-doctor Roderick Glossop and Mrs. Cream. As always, the reversals of fortune and revelations are impeccably times and the wordplay is top notch. Wodehouse makes it all look frightfully easy so it's a guarantee that it was a real dachshund to write.
"I'd always thought her half baked but now I think they didn't ever put her in the oven" was one of my favorite lines from the last quarter of the book but it's peppered with hilarious lines. I don't think this is a top tier Wodehouse but it was a very enjoyable read. Four out of five stars.
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Reading Progress
Finished Reading
(Other Hardcover Edition)
Finished Reading
February 7, 2008
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July 30, 2008
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(Other Hardcover Edition)
April 28, 2009
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wodehouse
(Other Hardcover Edition)
April 28, 2009
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wodehouse
November 14, 2023
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Started Reading
November 20, 2023
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62.5%
"My son tore the cover off my ancient paperback last night but I found a hardcover at Half Price Books earlier for ten bucks so I'll be switching editions."
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November 20, 2023
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November 20, 2023
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November 20, 2023
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Nov 20, 2023 03:00PM
I need to read more of this writer's book...Great review Dan.
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Henry wrote: "I need to read more of this writer's book...Great review Dan."
Thanks! Code of the Woosters is the one I always recommend if you haven't read it yet.
Thanks! Code of the Woosters is the one I always recommend if you haven't read it yet.
I have read that funny book and liked all the 9 novels I have consumed by the great writer, so Heavy Weather looks good for my next, Dan.
Henry wrote: "I have read that funny book and liked all the 9 novels I have consumed by the great writer, so Heavy Weather looks good for my next, Dan."
I read that one pre-Goodreads so I don't have a review to remind me what it's about. It's a Blandings Castle book, though, so that's good.
I read that one pre-Goodreads so I don't have a review to remind me what it's about. It's a Blandings Castle book, though, so that's good.