nicanical
A fun, funny read with wonderfully playful prose. Savor it like poetry. The prose is very rich, so this is a series that might need to be read in intervals. Narrative structure is simple: dialogue and characters interacting, and few descriptions of settings. P.G. Wodehouse's style reminds me of Raymond Chandler's, down to the brain-tickling similes.
Peep these, fellow literati:
- I met them going around London like a couple of sailors on shore leave.
- . . . I had only to inform Spode that I knew all about Eulalie to cause him to curl up like a burnt feather.
- She had been as tough as a restaurant steak, and she continued as tough as a restaurant steak.
- The antique shop in the Brompton Road proved, as foreshadowed, to be an antique shop in the Brompton Road . . . .
- He writhed like an electric fan.
Coincidentally, Wodehouse and Chandler both attended Dulwich College. Not at the same time though. I wonder if there was a class or a teacher in common that was pivotal to their literary gifts. I'll have to read some C.S. Forester too now. He's another Dulwich alum.
A fun, funny read with wonderfully playful prose. Savor it like poetry. The prose is very rich, so this is a series that might need to be read in intervals. Narrative structure is simple: dialogue and characters interacting, and few descriptions of settings. P.G. Wodehouse's style reminds me of Raymond Chandler's, down to the brain-tickling similes.
Peep these, fellow literati:
- I met them going around London like a couple of sailors on shore leave.
- . . . I had only to inform Spode that I knew all about Eulalie to cause him to curl up like a burnt feather.
- She had been as tough as a restaurant steak, and she continued as tough as a restaurant steak.
- The antique shop in the Brompton Road proved, as foreshadowed, to be an antique shop in the Brompton Road . . . .
- He writhed like an electric fan.
Coincidentally, Wodehouse and Chandler both attended Dulwich College. Not at the same time though. I wonder if there was a class or a teacher in common that was pivotal to their literary gifts. I'll have to read some C.S. Forester too now. He's another Dulwich alum.