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22 P. G. Wodehouse "The Old Reliable"
I finished "The Old Reliable" this morning. It is the final novel in the volume of 5 Wodehouse novels I've been reading. I really have to wonder why the editor compiled these books the way they did. Reliable was original published in 1950, two years after Spring Fever. Significant portions of the middle of the book take from the plot of "Spring Fever" wholesale. The characters are all different, but the central action is dead on the same. To put these two novels in the same volume is just cruel to the memory of Wodehouse and the reader. There were lots of other novels from the same era, swap out one for "The Old Reliable"!
This book didn't come together as well as "Spring Fever", but there were some novel bits which I did enjoy. The movers and the shakers in this book were mostly female. There were twists in the plot right to the very last page. This was Wodehouse poking fun at Hollywood, so he had lots to poke at.
I finished "The Old Reliable" this morning. It is the final novel in the volume of 5 Wodehouse novels I've been reading. I really have to wonder why the editor compiled these books the way they did. Reliable was original published in 1950, two years after Spring Fever. Significant portions of the middle of the book take from the plot of "Spring Fever" wholesale. The characters are all different, but the central action is dead on the same. To put these two novels in the same volume is just cruel to the memory of Wodehouse and the reader. There were lots of other novels from the same era, swap out one for "The Old Reliable"!
This book didn't come together as well as "Spring Fever", but there were some novel bits which I did enjoy. The movers and the shakers in this book were mostly female. There were twists in the plot right to the very last page. This was Wodehouse poking fun at Hollywood, so he had lots to poke at.
