Right Ho, Jeeves
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- ISBN13: 9781572704237
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When Jeeves suggests dreamy, soulful Gussie Fink-Nottle don scarlet tights and fake beard to win over soppy Madeline Bassett, Bertie Wooster doubts this is the way to get his friend hitched. Meanwhile, Bertie’s eccentric Aunt Dahlia questions him to hand out prizes at the Market Snodsbury Grammar School, which he’s sure he would have to get drunk to do. Complicating maters, Madeline invites Gussie to stay at her acquaintances house in the country. The friend turns out to be Bertie’s cousin Angela and the house — Aunt Dahlia’s. Thinking things have certainly gotten out of hand, Bertie takes Jeeves off the case, acting on his own plot to bring Gussie and Madeline together. But when things go disastrously incorrect, who can Bertie turn to but Jeeves? Acclaimed actor Ian Carmichael brings comic flair to this rollicking tale by the man The Times (London) called a “brilliantly amusing writer.”
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“You silly a . . . ” is a axiom regularly repeated by Bertram (Bertie) Wooster’s favorite Aunt Dahlia in describing him in this country romp of romance and gastronomy gone incorrect. And that’s the nicest thing she has to say about him in this tale.
Bertie’s main redeeming quality to his friends and family tree in this tale is his manservant, Jeeves. Over the years of their relationship, everyone who knows Bertie comes to realize that Bertie is a bumbling fool and that Jeeves is a problem-solving genius. The parallels to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are unavoidable in one’s mind, except these tales are played out as comedy along the lines of A Midsummer Night’s Dream rather than as serious business. Like Dr. Watson for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Bertie is the narrator of this novel.
Bertie, as a gentleman, feels that it is vital to keep Jeeves in his place. He looks for the ancient feudal spirit of serf to master from Jeeves. When Jeeves challenges Bertie’s choice to wear an informal jacket in the country that he brought back from Cannes, Bertie decides to place Jeeves in his place.
In Right Ho, Jeeves, everyone is looking for solutions to their problems from Jeeves. The glide in the ancient ointment though is that Bertie tells Jeeves to stifle himself while Bertie tries to save the day. As you can imagine, each Bertie breathe with difficulty (or plot) turns out to be a blunder as a replacement for that makes things much worse. Then Bertie tries again, with even worse results. And so on.
As background to the tale’s beginning, Bertie is just back from two months in Cannes on the Riviera with Aunt Dahlia, his cousin Angela, and her friend, Madeline Bassett. Aunt Dahlia recruits Bertie to give the prizes at the local school, while Bertie scrambles to avoid the appearance. His ancient pal, Gussie Fink-Nottle, a newt practiced, has fallen for Madeline Bassett but he is too shy to propose. Bertie works on Gussie’s resolve. Tuppy Glossop, another pal, is engaged to cousin Angela until they have a row about double chins and sharks. Bertie tries to bring reconciliation to the warring parties. Aunt Dahlia’s domestic peace depends on the gourmet cooking of Anatole, which is essential to get money for her magazine out of her dyspepsic spouse, Uncle Tom, to offset what she lost at the casino. Bertie’s misconceptions soon have Anatole in despair, and contemplating departure. Aunt Dahlia is shaken to the core.
Things look glum indeed for the young lovers, Aunt Dahlia, and for Bertie. How will the day be saved?
The book is wonderfully read by Alexander Spencer, my favorite narrator of these P.G. Wodehouse tales and novels. Wodehouse proposed these to be read as musical comedy, rather than considered as being drawn from life. With the proper narration, with an appropriate English accent, the tales are much enhanced.
Why, then did I rate the book down one star? First, the plot does go on and on through its complications. A excellent editor could have chopped this down by about 25 percent and made a much better novel. Second, there is a reference to people of color beginning with the letter “n” that will offend many, and certainly offended me.
A better offering in this series are the tales in the audio cassettes entitled, Jeeves and the Ancient School Chum. You might start there if you don’t know Bertie and Jeeves yet. Only after you have used up the five star Jeeves audio tapes should you listen to this one. And you should do so only if you are fully compelled to have more of Bertie and Jeeves.
After you have finished this book, consider whether you have ever failed to take excellent advice. If you have avoided that, was fake pride involved? If so, how can you overcome that misconception and self-deception in the future?
What?
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Amusing but lacking chapter breaks it tends to run together. Everyone must have a Jeeves tale in their library. I’ve got mine, loved it, and will now go on.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Being a fan of PBS TV. I delight in British comedy(Laurie and Fry) in the Wooster and Jeeves series. The P.G. Wodehouse books are ’spot on’, I say. I find myself reading the novels in the speech pattern that Laurie and Fry use in the tv series. Mr. Wodehouse uses words that I have never seen before, causing me to keep a glossary handy.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
RHJ is certainly the best Wodehouse novel although some of the Mulliner, Golf, and Ukridge fleeting tales may score privileged if you’re giving points for brevity (“pound for pound” funnyness). On the additional hand, maybe not. Every line of RHJ is amusing and gorgeous as well. Yes, as another reviewer said, it’s simple to read, but it also rewards rereading many times. Like Mozart, it’s reasonably a bit more intricate than it sounds at first.
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read further until you have read the book!
Question to consider AFTER reading: is Bertie a Christ-figure? He does, after all, redeem the tale’s universe through his suffering. Which is caused by (apparent) treachery. And, to which he is more-or-less legitimately condemned for stirring up the community. If yes, how many Passion-analogues can get away with having the Christ-figure be the first-person narrator? How many make it this well at getting the reader to identify with him? Not many. As I said, I reflect this piece may be deeper than it appears.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I truly can’t recall ever reading a more amusing book – and I have read it many times over the years, and laughed as hard each time as I did the first. In fact, some passages have been known to set me giggling when they popped into my mind months after the last reading. A joyful, witty, wonderful book. Impossible to clarify; it has to be veteran.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5