reading (The Man Upstairs)

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I finished reading P. G. Wodehouse's "The Man Upstairs" on the train yesterday or was it night before last, they kind of blended in together. Anyway, I had originally started reading this collection of short stories when I was in Connecticut on business, but had set it aside and forgotten about it. This isn't the strongest of Wodehouse's short story collections. Many of the stories seem uninspired. Many of Wodehouse's stories follow the same line, but generally his phrasing is so perfect it doesn't matter. In these stories the characters are less inspired than usual, the plots are flatter than usual, and the phrasing just can't carry the whole show. They weren't all clunkers and even a Wodehouse clunker beats most writers, but you might be better off rereading one of the other Wodehouse collections rather than picking up this one.

2. P. G. Wodehouse "The Man Upstairs"