[Alucard]

got bored of ayn rand..want to discuss the audacious psmith.. cool jeeves.. sloooooooooow emsford. .. lovely monty and ever so many others like galahd.. uncle fred .. any takers??

[abradigitator]

main hoo naaa ..me a big fan of plum...well just lov all his works...my favs are d affable bertie wooster nd his invincible valet jeeves..apart frm tat sereis on blanding castles r also a must read..
guess he dosent receive d credit he deserves cos he wrote comedy and lyrics for musicals..annyways who cares..the best part about his stories were tat they were not wrtitten to appeal to d critics but were simple straightforward humour..
three cheers to plum...

abra

[Suhas_neo]

count me in as well .
i think wodehouse's best works were the jeeves-wooster ones.i didn't quite find his other stuff that funny. the experiences in wooster's life have that 'mr.bean' like quality that i just love!simply gr8 stuff...totaly hilarious ! the characters r the best ..gussie fink-nottle,the ferocious aunt agatha,the amiable aunt dahlia,bingo little,the bumbling wooster and of course the all knowing jeeves !
while we r at it...has anyone read richard gordons books? the doctor series? very similar to wodehouse in his writing style and equally hilarious !
cheers,
suhas

[abradigitator]

me thinks Wodehouse understood perfectly what he was about. as he once said, “there are only two ways of writing a novel. One is mine, making the thing a sort of musical comedy without music, and ignoring real life altogether; the other is going down deep into life and not caring a damn.”
Most great artists plumb the depths; Wodehouse remained fixed, gloriously, on the surface. That was both his limitation and his achievement. What he lacked in profundity he made up for in verbal dexterity. His province was humor: he didn’t trespass into other realms. (how greatful i am for tat )
Another aspect of his writing was tat he managed to write about "nothing ". he coined d same stories over and over again ..but it was his flawless diction and d skillful handling of cliches tat made him what he is.

cheers

[anastasia]

count me in too
me too a huge fan of plum.....
i love all his books but the blandings castle stories are my favourite!!!!!
no one can beat lord elmsford and and his pig (oops ! i mean the empress of blandings).....

cheerio.....

[Oxymoron]

Well though I haven't exactly got bored of Ayn Rand...I love Wodehouse too! And my all time fav characters are Psmith and Ukridge! Ofcourse the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster combination does tickle one's rib but as far as series goes nothing to beat the Blanding's castle one! His gentle dig at the "noble class" of the England and his subtle humor is simply amazing!
Though incidentlaly not many ppl like his kinda humor...

Girish...!

[Gordon]

well pg wodehouse... i think i mentioned him on the fave reads tread. i used to laugh my a$$ off while reading his stuff. his brit style humour was jus great....and his choice of words....." Sir, the gentleman at the door would like to establish communication with you after you have lunched"...another one..." His antics left him with a gangling in his loins"...my fave has been "mike and psmith", prolly coz i cud relate to it as a growing teen when i first read it.enjoyed bertie wooster too. there's jus one book of PGW that i left half read..." eggs, beans and crumpets"...else it was one time sitting for most books...

am reading an ebook now of PGW.."sumthing new"...

xcess

[MvB ACM No9]

Hullo-ullo-ullo.... Aaah! PGW! My favourite author. No doubt about that. And Jeeves and Wooster is THE series....anyone who's read "Code of The Woosters" HAS to agree I guess my favourite aspect of his writing is that he never goes in for slapstick humour. It's all situational...like the scene in "Mating Season", when he is caught my the "Godawful" Madeline Bassett holding her picture

And yeah, amongst his friends, the best is Gussie Fink-Nottle (or Spink-Bottle as Dahlia Travers would say ;-) ), followed closely by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright (where did he think up these names??? Like Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps........). The scene when Gussie addresses the school in the prize-giving ceremony when he's totally sozzled has to be one of the best I have ever read....

Cheers! Or "Pip-pip. Toodle-doo" as Bertie would say....
Mike

[shriya_c]

Originally Posted by anastasia

count me in too
me too a huge fan of plum.....
i love all his books but the blandings castle stories are my favourite!!!!!
no one can beat lord elmsford and and his pig (oops ! i mean the empress of blandings).....

cheerio.....

i totally agreeee with that ,,,,,,,i absolutely adore the earl of blandings and his empress,,,,,,,definitely the most hilarious i have read.........each and every page has me in splits......!
shriya

[Alucard]

i have read almost all the series of wodehouse... but my personal fav is a single -- the luck of the bodkins was a hilarious book from cover to cover .. i love the school stories as well ...
of course the drones club is not to be sniffed at.. neither is the resourceful jeeves. i loved