Introduced to P.G. Wodehouse by my aunt during holidays in Siau, a village in northern India. Lazy days spent at my grandparents home, good conversation, visitors, much laughter and reading, interjected with eating guavas, hot jalebis, and other almost non stop streams of pure vegetarian food.
People seem to either get the humour or dismiss these books.
Personally some of the characters and situations in the books have me smiling, giggling, chuckling or even chortling with tears rolling down. The series with Jeeves the butler are good however my favourites are those set in Blandings Castle involving the Earl of Elmsworth and the Empress of Blandings, who knew a pig and a mild mannered Earl could cause so much chaos.
A classic sitting in my bookshelf that re-read recently is Galahad at Blandings. First published in 1965, 206 pages of light reading, contains attempts to re-unite two warring couples, unwanted marriage advances made towards unsuspecting Lord Elmsworth, a visit by a masquerading Augustus Whipple author of the beloved “On the Care of the Pig!”, a police chase, and horror a drunken Empress.
Not going to explain the plot further, better to just read the novel.
2 Comments
February 24, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Great to come across a Wodehouse fan. I love the Blandings series perhaps more than anything else that Plum wrote. The characters are so lovable.
November 16, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Nice…I love Wodehouse too. Particularly, the Blandings series, with Bertie Wooster coming a close second.
I just have to laugh out loud at the names of all the characters, and the situations they get themselves into