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katikat"Ring for Jeeves (Jeeves #10)" by P.G. Wodehouse
Rating: ♣
I made it halfway through, then I had to drop it. Until that point, I was simply bored. But in that moment, the book started downright annoying me. You see, Bertie Wooster isn't actually in this book, it's a Wooster-less "Jeeves & Wooster" piece. And though the language is still witty, it lacks its usual sharpness without Bertie as the snippy observer. But I could've dealt with that. What I could not deal with was Jeeves being the accomplice to an actual crime: his new lordship skimmed a better, you see. And though Jeeves usually solves his lordship's problems, this time it went too far and the whole thing turned into a real crime with a lot of money involved and it stopped being funny, because his lordship was guilty and the better was innocent. Also, the endless commentary on the poor social standing of nobility after WWII... it became too preachy. So yeah, a real dud.
Rating: ♣
I made it halfway through, then I had to drop it. Until that point, I was simply bored. But in that moment, the book started downright annoying me. You see, Bertie Wooster isn't actually in this book, it's a Wooster-less "Jeeves & Wooster" piece. And though the language is still witty, it lacks its usual sharpness without Bertie as the snippy observer. But I could've dealt with that. What I could not deal with was Jeeves being the accomplice to an actual crime: his new lordship skimmed a better, you see. And though Jeeves usually solves his lordship's problems, this time it went too far and the whole thing turned into a real crime with a lot of money involved and it stopped being funny, because his lordship was guilty and the better was innocent. Also, the endless commentary on the poor social standing of nobility after WWII... it became too preachy. So yeah, a real dud.
