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A carregar... Jeeves and the Wedding Bells (2013)por Sebastian Faulks
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Interminable; the bally thing just goes on and on. Wodehouse would never have bored his readers with such tedious cricketing and fete performances and he most certainly would never task Jeeves with such unsolicited manipulation. No fan of Plum's would enjoy this and I'm tempted to throw it in the bin lest it waste the time of a fellow aficionado. ( ) Hard to pass up this brand new, authorized-by-the-estate-of-P.G.-Wodehouse installment of Jeeves and Wooster. I've come to doubt that anyone can perfectly mimic the voice of another author, but as the author here freely admits in the preface, he's not trying to. He aimed only for an homage, and he pretty well got it. There were several points where I thought, "No, P.G. Wodehouse wouldn't have mentioned that topic... this bit's veering toward a little too much sentiment... this bit's just a hair too serious..." The ending surprised me a bit because I had assumed certain things about Jeeves and Wooster were unalterable. Not so. But keeping in mind that it's not supposed to be an exact replica of a Wodehouse, merely a tribute, it passes muster. Having just finished "Jeeves and the King of Clubs" , I found this story somewhat difficult due to the over zealous use of unfamiliar British expressions and metaphors, as if written in a foreign language. While its been years since reading the original Wodehouse stories, its possible Faulks interpretation was accurate, though it was still a struggle understanding it. The plot had a nice twist at the end, but I felt it wasn't nearly as funny nor offbeat as "King of Clubs". Wonderful homage to one of my all-time favorite authors, P.G. Wodehouse. This book made me smile a lot. I didn't giggle and guffaw as much as I do when I read Wodehouse (I once had a coworker sit through a lunch hour of my doing this before asking if she could borrow the book when I was done), but the humor did hit all the Wodehousian notes, and the author did right by the characters. There was a little too much debriefing at the end, tying off every single loose end, but I still highly recommend this book. It was swell on audio. 4.5 stars Full PopMatters review forthcoming. Faulks knows the words but not the music, as it were, and one's impression of his serious research and investment in the impersonation dissipates somewhat at about the two-fifths mark once it becomes clear that the plot's less in the Wodehouse brand of Chandler-esque entanglement than it is a middling romantic comedy. Not an insult to the Master but not quite a worthy homage either. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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"Bertie Wooster (a young man about town) and his butler Jeeves (the very model of the modern manservant)--return in their first new novel in nearly forty years: Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks. P.G. Wodehouse documented the lives of the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster for nearly sixty years, from their first appearance in 1915 ("Extricating Young Gussie") to the his final completed novel (Aunts Aren't Gentlemen) in 1974. These two were the finest creations of a novelist widely proclaimed to be the finest comic English writer by critics and fans alike. With the approval of the Wodehouse estate, acclaimed novelist Sebastian Faulks brings Bertie and Jeeves back to life in a hilarious affair of mix-ups and mishaps. Bertie, nursing a bit of heartbreak over the recent engagement of one Georgiana Meadowes to someone not named Wooster, agrees to "help" his old friend Peregrine "Woody" Beeching, whose own romance is foundering. Almost immediately, things go awry and the simple plan quickly becomes complicated. Jeeves ends up having to impersonate one Lord Etringham, while Bertie plays the part of Jeeves' manservant "Wilberforce"--and this all happens under the same roof as the now affianced Ms. Meadowes. From there the plot becomes even more hilarious and convoluted, in a brilliantly conceived, seamlessly written comic work worthy of the master himself"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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