This book needs to be savoured slowly...drinking upon each and every dialogue and laughing, giggling, smiling or whatever you can manage. If you try to finish it off in less than 5 sittings don’t sue anyone for intense stomach pain. (something similar was said about Saki’s Short Story Collection as well).
My first review at MS...so I thought what better than writing about ’Plum’.
This book has the first 3 Blandings Castle stories.
Something Fresh (my personal favourite) talks about a writer of detective stories who loves doing Larsen Exercises and therefore providing entertainment to the whole alley. As the story progresses, he gets involved in the proceedings of Blandings Castle and thus the other characters - Lord Emsworth, Freddie Threepwood, Lady Constance etc are introduced. Lord Emsworth is described as a man who ’’never experienced the thrill of ambition fulfilled, ... but never knew the agony of ambition frustrated’’...;-)
Summer Lightening acquaints us with Galahad and The Empress of Blandings - two times silver medalist at the Shropshire Fat Pig Contest..;-). The story reveals a plot to flick the memoirs of Galahad ’cause that might cause a lot of people in England to lose their appetite. Events take a turn and Lord Emsworth is going bonkers because he’s convinced that someone is conspiring to kidnap Empress.
Heavy Weather is about Lord Emsworth getting a new secretary, sleep walkers, peeping toms and Empress’s plight..;-) A new plot, same characters and as funny as it could get.
Finally, if you are new to Wodehouse...there is nothing better than to start with ’Life at Blandings’. And I bet..you’ll be longing for more..;-)
Also try ’Imperial Blandings’ and ’Psmith Omnibus’.
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Adieu
jockey