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5.0 out of 5 stars
Blandings Castle is never bland nor dull!, Oct 24 2002
This is the first Blandings Castle novel, and the first novel in what we now think as the true P.G. Wodehouse style. For the first time, the interplay between absent-minded peers, quick-to-anger relatives and friends, and those amazing good-natured yet good-for-nothing younger sons come together in a comic dance of quick assumptions, identity switches, flirts with embarrassment, and, oh yes, love.If Wodehouse wasn't so widely admired by the critics, I would have to claim him as a guilty pleasure. Although I can quote style and form with the best of them, the real truth is that I read Wodehouse because he amuses. In Wodehouse's hands, the sly wink equals the over-the-top exaggeration, and only one will work in the place that he puts it. I tried to slow my reading speed down on this book, to gain an understanding of the flow and the way the language worked. I failed miserably--before I realized it, I was caught up once again in the action of the story and I wasn't observing but enjoying. I'm thinking that to truly study a novel, I am going to have to force myself to retype it.
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First=Finest, Feb 24 2002
Something Fresh is the first book of the Blandings Castle series, and in my opinion, the best. It is about a person named Lord Emsworth who accidentally steals a millionaire's scarab. The millionaire also happens to be his son's future father-in-law. The millionaire hires a man to find it, while the man's friend also gets information on the scarab. So both try to steal, while the Lord Emsworth's secretary, not knowing that it is the millionaire's, tries to prevent them from recovering the scarab. The encounters between the man,his girl friend, and the secretary will keep you laughing. Not only I, but also other people, who have read this book after I recommended it, share the view that Something Fresh is an extraordinary book. Get your hands on this book as fast as you can, and soon you will be famished for more books by P.G. Wodehouse. It will, and I am totally serious here, make you laugh until you have laughed all the laughs you can laugh, and cried all the tears you can cry. Hope you enjoy!!!! Cheers!!!!! : )
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Funny,Humourous,Witty,Wonderful,Marvellous,Out of this world, May 17 2001
By A Customer
This is my 3rd book of P.G Wodehouse & I'm simply hooked!! P.G Wodehouse is one of a kind! Any body can write a story, but it takes real talent to write something which will make people laugh. I liked this book not so much for the story as for P.G Wodehouse's style of writing. The plot is well-made & skilfuly woven.What happens when a scarab gets stolen? 'A scarab?' you think. Yes, a valuable scarab from Mr. Peter's collection & an offer of 10,000 dollars for it's retrieval. This has caught your attention. So has it caught Ashe Marton & Joan Valentine in a web of lies, confusion & humour. Both of them vye for the reward, posing as impostors in Blandings castle. Ashe Marton, as Mr. Peter's valet & Joan Valentine as Aline Peter's maid. The Efficient Baxter, Lord Emsworth's seceretary, gets to know of the plan & spends many sleepless nights hoping to catch them red-handed. But none of them know that somebody else is interested in the scarab too, & will very soon take it away right under their noses! The side characters who contribute a lot towards the humour situation, are Mr. Beach, the butler, who 'Suffers from His Feet, From Nervous Disorders', & 'whose Stomach Lining is not what a stomach lining should be.' I'm sure you'll all love this hilarious story.
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