Vintage Wodehouse, often laugh out loud funny

There’s an odd production error in the audiobook - the amounts of money (there are three amounts important to the plot) all increased five-fold half way through the novel.

Aside from this minor issue, it’s a great reading of an excellent novel.

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Great story

This was very enjoyable and without the excessive number of players that some later stories became muddled with. Some very humorous parts. Well read and presented.

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Listen and smile

What a gem of a novel.

A blatantly farcical plot involving inherited money and privileged folk provides the structure for a funny, insightful and heart-warming narrative about the vissisitudes of human existence. These characters display the full range of human foibles and weaknesses, and charmingly demonstrate the risks of honesty and extreme integrity....

Wodehouse was a consumate wordsmith with a gift for dialogue and a sneaky way of slipping real philosophy into his (apparently) slight stories from the mouths of his (apparently) frivolous characters.

The wonderful added bonus is his ability to help us see ourselves in his characters a full 100 years after they were created, and laugh out loud at their (our) simple humanness.

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Great!

Loved it. Delightfully read, absorbing long story with a wonderful satisfying conclusion. Pity about the poor monkey!

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A very nice book

A very enjoyable story performed very well. The central characters are very likeable and the ending is perfect.

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A little known classic!

Very amusing story, with typical Wodehouse plot twists, and great characterisation. Excellent performance by the narrator: much better than most of the other Wodehouse narrators. Very enjoyable.

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An excellent reader.

He manages not to give any hint that he finds the work of Mr, Wodehouse in the slightest bit amusing.

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Entirely dependent on chains of uber-ridiculous "coincidences"

As per the above. One after another - after yet another. So much so that it seemed to me that if Wodehouse had ever decided to experiment with the before and after effects of undergoing a Full Frontal Lobotomy, this effort was definitely written in the immediate aftermath's deepest period of singlemindedness.
It's a one trick pony. And lacks the ginger that propelled the Blandings and Wooster scribblings into a low Earth Orbit of hyper popularity.
Take away these stupidly repetitious coincidences (It's too tough to pay heed enough to itemise these bally things doncherknow) and there's little else to form a shell of a plot. it isn't populated by the reams of Upper Class Twits that infest the Jeeves tales, or the goofy peers needful to keep Blandings on any sort of boil.
At about halfway through, at the point that Claire finds herself (immediately after crossing the Atlantic on a steamship) onlooking her boyfriend dancing with a Land Yacht of a dumb blonde - the best thing about it is that it was free, being part of the Amazon Plus catalogue. Which in itself tells much. Were it popular enough to earn a crust, you could bet that Bezos would have it doing just that.
Read something else. Not quite "read ANYTHING else" - but it was a near thing.

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Most entertaining

An entertaining treat that was most enjoyable ,witty,satisfying,and rather sweet . With plenty of wise insights into human nature. Spot on.

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Could be many ways

How much enlightenment there was, without digital media. Well worth listening to more than once. Thank you P G Wodehouse, for the reminder, Not forgotten, and well voiced, too. Just brilliant.

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