tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post3676462417540768366..comments2024-03-17T19:13:59.371+00:00Comments on Nigeness: Wodehouse CompleteNigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-55131406921526170152015-04-27T13:15:59.160+01:002015-04-27T13:15:59.160+01:00Contagious enthusiasm??Contagious enthusiasm??Jeff Geehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02556922556611887235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-62589698681445366132015-04-26T17:34:53.536+01:002015-04-26T17:34:53.536+01:00Three times! What happened there...?Three times! What happened there...?Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-91873772736364807792015-04-26T14:21:18.020+01:002015-04-26T14:21:18.020+01:00Extraordinary! Thanks for that, Jeff...Extraordinary! Thanks for that, Jeff...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-55065615555248204312015-04-26T14:21:17.779+01:002015-04-26T14:21:17.779+01:00Extraordinary! Thanks for that, Jeff...Extraordinary! Thanks for that, Jeff...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-63774459677530282042015-04-26T14:21:11.296+01:002015-04-26T14:21:11.296+01:00Extraordinary! Thanks for that, Jeff...Extraordinary! Thanks for that, Jeff...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-36332343564432197082015-04-24T21:48:05.957+01:002015-04-24T21:48:05.957+01:00I haven't read it,but Farran Smith Nehme yeste...I haven't read it,but Farran Smith Nehme yesterday made the case for <i>The Small Bachelor</i>: "Expanded from one of Wodehouse’s Broadway plays, the 1927 novel is naturally much concerned with prohibition (the local speakeasy is called "The Purple Chicken"). In addition to the poetry-spouting cop, the unsummarisable plot concerns George Finch, the bachelor of the title, and his love for Molly Waddington, a girl with a terrifying battleaxe for a mother and a millionaire father who yearns to be a cowboy. Everything unfolds in a way that makes Gotham seem as magical as Blandings Castle." I'll give it a whack, anyway. (Nehme's whole piece, her 'Top Five New York Books,' is located <a href="http://www.welovethisbook.com/features/top-five-new-york-books" rel="nofollow">here</a>.)Jeff Geehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02556922556611887235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-41702580114193037602015-04-21T07:47:14.520+01:002015-04-21T07:47:14.520+01:00Can't help it, Anonymous, if it doesn't do...Can't help it, Anonymous, if it doesn't do it for me. Many other things do. It's a suspension of disbelief too far. However, I will endeavour to inject more levity into my life.Guy Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02304053177188950094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-39637303279013962602015-04-20T22:34:04.432+01:002015-04-20T22:34:04.432+01:00It's an entirely fantasy world - a kind of pas...It's an entirely fantasy world - a kind of pastoral in which culture goes madly walk-about. I think you're being too solemn, Mr Walker.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-85493026393875470572015-04-20T20:32:41.014+01:002015-04-20T20:32:41.014+01:00Very much aware that I might be uttering the grave...Very much aware that I might be uttering the gravest of heresies here, Nige, but I've never found Wodehouse that amusing. He asks us to accept, with affection, a cosy, rosy, innocent world that was already past it's sell-by date. By then the toffs were already tainted and we were already too close to being post-imperial. The fact that he got into hot water as a result of his political naivety might seem to support this. For me there are just too many reservations to suspend to buy into it.Guy Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02304053177188950094noreply@blogger.com