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Doctor Sally

By: P. G. Wodehouse
Narrated by: Paul Shelley
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When Bill Bannister meets Dr. Sally Smith, love blossoms immediately. Unfortunately there is just the small problem of Lottie Higginbotham, former actress, serial bride, and human fireball, with whom Bill is already involved. The well-meaning interference of Bill’s old friend, Squiffy Tidmouth, once married to Lottie, only complicates matters further, until everything is straightened out in a series of comic encounters at Bill’s ancestral home and everyone lives happily ever after.

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Sweet and silly

Like much of Wodehouse’s early work, this little ditty is sweet and silly and altogether daffy in a kindly way. Don’t expect 3-dimensional characters or intricate plot twists here - just good fun.

The narrator’s 1920s-era American accent is spot on, though he sometimes confusingly refuses to stoop to the endearing falsetto other voices employ for female characters. Likewise, the tale’s century-old morays in the matter of women working might jar the current purist.

True Wodehouse fans might gently steer newcomers toward his more mature works starting in the early 1930s, including of course the Jeeves and Blandings Castle masterpieces. In fact, other works from this era edge this one out - try The Adventures of Sally (no relation) for a better-rounded, more emotionally powerful narrative.

Yet for new and old alike, even Wodehouse’s little ditties like this are manna from Heaven. Enjoy them with pheasant and a half bot. of something cold.

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Feel good sitcom

PGW doesn’t build a lot of angst and doesn’t throw in extra characters or complexity. It would make for a good stage play for high school students. I don’t know how fresh his plot twists and ploys were at the time but they have been used many times over in the 23 minute TV sitcoms but never with the excellency of dialogue featured here.
Spoiler alert: I personally enjoyed the ecstatic naming of bacteria, some of which no longer exist and one which heralded the antibiotic era (unanticipated at the time).
If not too presumptuous, just wanted to recommend to other listeners to ponder how different life was when Wodehouse wrote this.

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Very nice

Very nice reading, quite engaging to the last word. Got to love the Wodehouse. Thank you.

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P G Wodehouse fun

For a fun lighthjearted listen, you cannot miss with PG Wodehouse. I am very glad this was included in Audibe Plus.

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PG Wodehouse great fun listens

As always these books are fun, funny and remarkably written. The more I listen the more enjoyable they become

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Milk talk

I've always enjoyed the J&W series and l took a chance on this and absolutely enjoyed it. Listener be aware that there's some dirty, l mean, dairy talk involved.

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A new favorite. Simply top hole!

Wodehouse doesn't disappoint. Another installment of poor communication, jumping to conclusions, and peripheral friends and aged relatives with a delightful happy ending. Simply top hole, Old Bean!

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Entertaining with Subtle Nuggets of Truth

As always, Wodehouse delivers! I often wish I were actually reading this instead of listening so I could underline and write down my favorite lines. Capital!

As a side, this story has great general truths about relationships…men can come a little thick on emotions at times, and women want a man they can not just “love”, but also respect.

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Delightful!

It was such a delight to see the Titled reaction to an introduction to a female doctor, wh

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If This Wasn’t Wodehouse, it Would Be Pretty Good.

As unlikely as it sounds, according to no less an authority than Richard Usborne, “[t]his is a novel made from the play 'Good Morning, Bill', adapted by Wodehouse from the Hungarian.”. A straight-ahead love story without the usual Wodehousian complications or subplots, I can see how this would work on stage. But in novel form, there’s just not enough here to sustain interest, even for its brief 3 hour running time. Dialogue meanders. The one-dimensional plot sags. And it features perhaps the least sympathetic Wodehouse hero and the least attractive of all his heroines.

All of which wouldn’t matter so much if this weren’t penned by the man who, at about this same time (1932) was turning out gems like Hot Water, Big Money and Heavy Weather. As good as Paul Shelley’s performance is, he could’t save this one from the disappointment of my heightened expectations.

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