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Designed for school districts, educators, and students seeking to maximize performance on standardized tests, Webster’s paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of My Man Jeeves by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was edited for students who are actively building their vocabularies in anticipation of taking PSAT¿, SAT¿, AP¿ (Advanced Pla… More >>
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#1 by Michael Valdivielso on January 26, 2010 - 12:58 pm
I love Jeeves stories and these are some of the first. But not all are about Jeeves and Wooster, thou they would show up in later books changed to be Jeeves and Wooster stories.
A bed book, as I pointed out, is meant to be used while in bed. It is designed so you can read it while on your side. I like to read books while laying on my front in bed, so it is nice to have. I had to take a star away for the fact that not ALL stories were of the J & W type.
Rating: 4 / 5
#2 by Kathleen Haley on January 26, 2010 - 2:10 pm
the book is in excellent, in fact, perfect, shape, and has a beautiful feel to it–the contents are the usual brilliant Jeeves and Wooster humor!
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by David L. Evans on January 26, 2010 - 2:40 pm
I listen to audio books all night – re-cuing to where I left off every time I wake up. Jeeves is a very light, relaxing, entertaining listen – especially when narrated by Jarvis. I DO laugh out loud occasionally – even on the 2nd or 5th listen – and even at 3am, but the lightness of the stories and the humor are surpassed (to my taste) only by John Mortimer’s Rumpole series read by Leo McKern.
Like “Tootsie” the movie, you won’t come away from this with a different outlook on life, but it’s good escape and, for me, chases away the worries that night in the George Bush era bring.
Rating: 4 / 5
#4 by Jeanne Tassotto on January 26, 2010 - 5:35 pm
This is a very early collection of Wodehouse stories, all set in America. Half the collection concerns Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, the rest Reggie Pepper, another Wodehouse ‘hero’, very much like Bertie, wealthy, well meaning, upper class twit with more money than brains. Fans of Jeeves and Bertie, particularly those familiar with the Stephan Frye/Hugh Laurie television productions will recognize all of these stories, even the ones featuring Reggie Pepper instead of Bertie Wooster.
As always with Wodehouse stories these take the reader away from the everyday world of the 21st century, transporting them not only to Manhattan and Long Island of nearly a hundred years ago, but to a place where the loss of a job or lack of money was only a temporary problem, where the biggest problems facing most of the characters is dealing with a cranky, eccentric (and wealthy) relative or having one too many or the wrong fiancee. It’s a delightful place to escape to for a few hours, knowing full well that with or without Jeeves somehow all will be well by the final paragraph.
This Kindle edition does have a few problems, there are some typographic errors, but they are minor, nothing that detracts markedly from the stories and the price ($0.00) cannot be beat.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Aimee Sims on January 26, 2010 - 7:22 pm
The title is a bit misleading; Bertie Wooster and Jeeves appear in lnly half the short stories here. The rest are tales of Reggie pepper, Wodehouse’s precursor to Bertie. Sadly, Reggie does not have a Jeeves of his own to get him out of trouble and must fend for himself. Somehow, he manages to get out of his predicaments relatively unscathed, occasionally with help from other members of the Drones club, but it’s not near as much fun as having a Jeeves around. Still, fun, light, and entertaining as Wodehouse always is.
Rating: 4 / 5