the code of the woosters by pg wodehouse

It means the inoculation against Modern Times is taking effect and the cure is working. Instead of merely feeling relieved, you start singing like a relieved nightingale. Rather than say you don’t want to see someone, you observe that you’d run a mile in tight shoes to avoid them. The rhythm of his sentences and then the almost bulletproof good humor of his perspective, begin to seep into your system and you notice bits of his Drones Club jargon in your own speech. The tonic effect of Wodehouse is, I believe, heightened with repeated listening. In a bookshelf with more high spots than a can-can line, Code of the Woosters is one of the highest a story that delights no matter how many times I listen to it-and I generally fit it in at least once a year, in the autumn, the season in which the story is set. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.” This classic from the Monarch or Royal of the Master-he apparently used both brands of typewriter in the course of a longish authorial career-has certainly released me more than once from dull hours and duller cares. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. I intend to download many more PG Wodehouse audio books but I will assiduously avoid any read by Nicolas Coster.Evelyn Waugh was about right when he said, “Mr. This has already been done brilliantly with Hugh Lawrie and Stephen Fry taking on the two main roles in perfect performances. No one not even in the landed Edwardian era spoke in quite such an affected style.Ĭould you see The Code of the Woosters being made into a movie or a TV series? Who would the stars be? This started off as comic, then began to grate a little and finally became very, very annoying.

For instance Dahlia (as in Aunt Dahlia) became Darlia crossed became crawssed and worst of all ass became arse. I found the ultra affected style of the reading appalling. What didn’t you like about Nicolas Coster’s performance?

The writing is brilliant and the similies are masterpieces. The way it twists and turns to get poor Bertie deeper and deeper in the mire until he is finally rescued by Jeeves.and all ends well. One of my favourite books by a favourite author. What did you like best about The Code of the Woosters? What did you like least? Wonderful book - shame about the narrator.

The code of the woosters by pg wodehouse