My Man Jeeves.

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I have a book poster which has modern and classic books to read so I have been working my way through them. I began reading My Man Jeeves, a bit apprehensive in case it was hard to read but oh my goodness, it is lovely and funny, so well written. I vaguely remember watching the TV series and enjoying it. I may go as far as to say the books are better than Fry and Laurie's portrayal.

Has anyone else read them? If you haven't and you fancy something very light-hearted and gentle, then I highly recommend them.

Books are practically always better than adaptations. I do think of Fry & Laurie when I read the books nowadays though.

When you’ve finished the Jeeves books, I recommend Blandings Castle & Uncle Fred!

I do usually (always?) prefer books but Fry and Laurie did such a fantastic job in the series that I thought the books may not live up to the TV series, especially as sometimes I find older books can be harder to read. I love these though and will definitely read the other series.

I have the whole collection on audible narrated by Stephen fry. Such a lovely, relaxing take before bedtime.

I read all the Jeeves books in my teens, loved,them. Haven’t read them since though?

I believe Wodehouse wrote about 90 novels, so he is brilliant to read as it takes along time to run out!
All delightful, my favourites are Blandings ones and Aunts Aren't Gentlemen which was my first about 40 years ago!

Awww - I love the books (and the series)!

I’ve got seven or eight Jeeves books kicking about that I dip into whenever I’m feeling down.

You can’t feel down with Wodehouse.

He even wrote a body swap novel (a la Freaky Friday) back in the 1930s - Laughing Gas - about a child star and Bertie-alike posh lad who both go to the dentist and swap souls when simultaneously ‘out of body’.

Insanely prolific author.

I love the Jeeves and Wooster books, Wodehouse is a master craftsman; such brilliant characters, so funny, such exquisite turns of phrase.

They're conveniently out of copyright and available for free on project gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/783

Wodehouse is one of the finest writers in the English language. When he died, some critics compared him to Shakespeare, and they weren't joking. Douglas Adams revered Wodehouse, and said that even Keats would have admired his use of language. Right Ho Jeeves is as close to a perfect work of art as anything I know. In fact, you could make the case for Wodehouse being the finest writer this island produced in the 20th-century. He wasn't just a 'comic writer' – he was a prose poet.

I second listening to Stephen Fry read them on audio. Listening to Fry read Wodehouse or Sherlock Holmes is my idea of heaven.

I really enjoy them. Although I like the US set ones less.

But I end up fantasising that I should be leading the B Wooster lifestyle. Have my man shimmy in with a pot of tea in the morning, drawing me a bath, going to lunch to have a bread roll fight at the Drones, taking in a show in the evening. Going to a country house weekend party (hopefully Anatole is the resident chef), sorting at a terrible dilemma that Biffy or Chuffy or Stilton or whoever has got into. Returning home to London accidentally engaged. But having realised that Jeeves was right all along about my loud sports jacket I was so taken with in town.

The perfect lifestyle. 😊