Tag Archives: P G Wodehouse

P G Wodehouse on Depression

Posted on August 23, 2021 by odeboyz

“Ginger’s depression deepened. A dinner with Uncle Donald would have hardly been a cheerful function, even in the surroundings of a banquet in the Arabian Nights. There was that about Uncle Donald’s personality which would have cast a sobering influence … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Douglas Sutherland ~ The English Gentleman (1978)

Posted on December 31, 2018 by odeboyz

This is a wonderful quirky book. I read it in about two hours and every moment was a pleasure. This is absolutely not a ‘how-to-be’ a gentleman; indeed it’s the opposite. Gentlemen are gentlemen to the core of their being. … Continue reading →

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P G Wodehouse: Jill the Reckless

Posted on November 10, 2017 by odeboyz

“She had never yet been frightened of any man, but there was something reptilian about this fat, yellow- headed individual which, disgusted her, much as cockroaches had done in her childhood.” Chris

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Book Review: P G Wodehouse~ Right Ho, Jeeves

Posted on September 5, 2017 by odeboyz

Wodehouse writes silly, frothy inconsequential books of no particular merit except for one detail: they’re utterly brilliant. Readers have to park their brains in a locker and wallow in the glorious writing. Wodehouse writes books where the first and second … Continue reading →

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The Antidote of Sadism

Posted on February 3, 2015 by odeboyz

“The grey, threatening sky had turned black by now. It was a swollen mass of inky clouds, heavy with the thunder, lightning and rain which so often come in the course of an English summer to remind the island race … Continue reading →

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