Wake Up, Sir!
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Average rating3.8
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Ratings2
Average rating3.8
From the creator of the HBO series Bored to Death, the story of a young alcoholic writer and his personal valet, a hilarious homage to the Bertie and Jeeves novels of P.G. Wodehouse. Alan Blair, the hero of Wake Up, Sir!, is a young, loony writer with numerous problems of the mental, emotional, sexual, spiritual, and physical variety. He's very good at problems. But luckily for Alan, he has a personal valet named Jeeves, who does his best to sort things out for his troubled master. And Alan does find trouble wherever he goes. He embarks on a perilous and bizarre road journey, his destination being an artists colony in Saratoga Springs. There Alan encounters a gorgeous femme fatale who is in possession of the most spectacular nose in the history of noses. Such a nose can only lead to a wild disaster for someone like Alan, and Jeeves tries to help him, but...well, read the book and find out!
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OK. First of all, I'm pretty sure this was an homage to P.G. Wodehouse, and I have never actually read anything by Wodehouse. So I'm sure I was missing out on some of the humor. This was a pretty funny book, with a lot of clever lines. Overall, though, it mainly felt clever, and I didn't feel particularly invested in Alan's alcoholism or his creative struggle. I did get pretty into the action of the last few chapters, but overall, not my cup of tea.
