The Inimitable Jeeves

Very British humor... older... dry... very well performed. Not my "cup of tea."

Great narrator! Very convincing. Incomplete book....it ended abruptly. I know there is more.

Wodehouse wrote a huge number of novels and several short story collections. This is in between. The book consists of numerous Jeeves incidents, some over several chapters, some contained within one. The stories are loosely connected. This book doesn't build the way the novels do, but it is delightful Wodehouse. Superbly read, as usual, by the late Frederick Davidson (also konwn as David Case).

Found that this couldn't hold my attention so therefore I really didn't digest the story and content.

This book was written in 1923 so it is one of the earliest of the Wooster and Jeeves stories. Collection of stories really, which makes sense as the earliest W & J chronicles were short stories. This is a semi-cohesive collection of episodes. Later books retain a lot of this flavour but become more unified narratives. So this book is a good introduction to the oeuvre. This is an excellant book and if you like this the Wodehouse books that follow will just get better and better. By the way, several of the episodes and incidents in this book were adapted into the BBC Wooster and Jeeves series with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. Wodehouse (pronounced "wood-house") was a seminal influence on English comedic tradition. The Goons, Monty Python, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, all admired Wodehouse and incorporated elements of his style into their own.

It started out slowly but it grew on me quickly. I enjoyed the English terms and humor very much.

Silly silly silly! Oh those Brits! this kept me giggling. Ya gotta love their sense of humor!

PG Wodehouse had been talked up to me as the funniest author since the invention of humor. Perhaps this is not his best book, or perhaps it just needs to grow on me. Which is not to say that I didn't enjoy it - but it's not funny in the sense that it will make you laugh out loud. But it was still very enjoyable.

A classic. Why are the English so funny? This book had me laughing through my hour-long commute (rather than simmering in a semi-homicidal rage) and I became very, very fond of Bertie & Jeeves. Now I want to find all the rest of their adventures...