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8 journalers for this copy...
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Journal Entry 3 by
What an exciting way to wake up. I looked out the window to see if the snow that was falling last night had actually settled (snow is a serious novelty to us here, we only get about one snowfall a year, if we're lucky), and not only did I see everything covered in pretty white fluffiness, and even more of it falling out of the sky, but the post office parcel van was pulling up the drive! What a huge book!!! Luckily my current read is something very short and fluffy, so I can finish it and get on to the adventures of Jeeves & Wooster as quickly as possible. ^ ^ 00 =+= v |
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Journal Entry 4 by 
Finished at last! Not that I didn’t enjoy this book, but another three bookrings came in hard on its tail, so I was feeling a wee bit of pressure to get it read as quickly as possible and move on down the TBR pile. (Note to self: Don’t sign up for so many bookrings in future!)Anyway, on to Jeeves and Wooster. I had misgivings when I saw the size of the book – I’d never read any of the Jeeves stories before, and was a bit worried that such a volume of them might get a bit repetitious. But I needn’t have worried – although there was a basic similarity of plot to most of the stories, the entertainment value was more in the style of the writing, and in the wonderful characterisations, than in the actual storyline. And there is one nice piece of variety, in the form of one of the later stories being written in Jeeves’s voice instead of Wooster’s. My other reservation when I began was that, having seen one of the TV adaptations a while back, I couldn’t help hearing Stephen Fry and Hugh Lawrie doing the voices as I was reading. But they are so totally perfect in the roles (especially Stephen Fry as Jeeves!) that that seemed to only add to the experience. Anyway, just to finish off, one of my favourite bits of dialogue, which seems to me to completely sum up the characters of Wooster and Jeeves: (Wooster is complaining about a boy who is coming to lunch) “You have seen this kid in action and you know what he’s like. He told Cyril Bassington-Bassington, a fellow to whom he had never been formally introduced, that he had a face like a fish. And this not thirty seconds after their initial meeting. I give you fair warning that, if he tells me I have a face like a fish, I shall clump his head.”… Off up north to katrina77 next (to Napier, which seems strangely appropriate for a PG Wodehouse book :-) ). ^ ^ 00 =+= v |
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Journal Entry 18 by
I've loved Frye and Laurie in the parts and I expect I'll love the written word as well. Thanks for including me in this BookRing.
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