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Ring for Jeeves

By: P. G. Wodehouse
Narrated by: Nigel Lambert
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Bill, (Lord) Rowcester was well and truly in the gumbo. With the benefit of hindsight he could see that setting himself up as a Silver Ring bookie might not have been his smartest move ever. Particularly when being down on his dibbs threatens his oncoming nuptials with the sterling Jill Wyvern. Lucky for Bill he had the land-lease of Jeeves. Lucky indeed that the fish-fed mastermind's formidable genius was at liberty to take a header into such teasers as borrowing the stellar Mrs Spottsworth's pendent for an hour or three or overseeing the added ingredients of Abbey's Derby Dinner, to say nothing of his lordship's mauve pyjamas.
©2014 P.G. Wodehouse (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

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Missing Birdie

I've read and listened to dozens of P.G. Wodehouse books over the years, and this was probably my least favorite. It seemed slow and I missed the lovable goofiness of Bertie Wooster. However, my main objection to this Audible book was the reader. His voice was difficult to understand, rather hoarse, and made the book drag even more. Next time I'll be more careful.

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A sort of time capsule of post-war Britain

One of the things I like most about Wodehouse books is that everyone's always talking about money - having it, losing it, marrying for it, borrowing it - in great detail. The result is that you end up learning a lot about the economic conditions of the time in which the stories are set. And that's one of the best aspects of this book.

'Ring for Jeeves' is set in post-WWII Britain, when the term 'impoverished nobility' was more applicable than ever before: the economy was a mess, the pound had been devalued, and even titled aristocrats - who formerly had lived on 'private income' or income from large country estates - had to start getting real jobs and selling their 15-bedroom castles to Americans, who were the only ones with enough money to handle the upkeep.

The male members of the leisure class are forced to take jobs at Harrods-like department stores, and the 'delicately nurtured' female members are becoming more independent and career-minded: Hilarity ensues!

In many ways, the story feels like a Blandings Castle novel onto which Jeeves has been grafted. It's not entirely successful (apparently wrote the play first, and then turned it into a book, and I think the retrofitting is apparent) but overall it's a decent story, has some good moments of humor, and provides a great insight into the upper classes in the late 40s and early 50s.

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Delightful

I avoided this for a long time because Bertie Wooster isn't in it. Big mistake. It's a delightful story, every bit as laugh-out-loud funny as any Wooster and Jeeves outing, and Nigel Lambert is a wonderful reader. Wodehouse treats his characters badly, ratcheting up the tension and the potential calamities down to the last 15 minutes - and then Jeeves, as always, saves the day with a few brilliant, fish-fed suggestions. It's all based on the psychology of the individual - and no one is better manager of that than Jeeves.

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Excellent Story, Ruinous Narration

This is a very disappointing audiobook. I’ve always enjoyed the novel itself, not least for its novelty of being a Jeeves story without Bertie Wooster, but the narration here is awful.

The prose is fine, but each voice the narrator chooses for the principle characters is worse than the last. He gives several characters what I can only describe as speech impediments, which makes for a wretched listening experience. I threw in the towel at Chapter 8.

Wodehouse books narrated by Martin Jarvis or Jonathan Cecil are a joy. This is closer to getting two weeks without the option from Sir Watkin Bassett while working in his professional capacity at Bosher St.

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A fun romp

I'm a big fan of Wodehouse and have most of the audiobooks and love them all. This one have a fun story and was a bit different, being that Bertie Wooster is only mentioned and Jeeves is on lone to the hero of this story. It takes place after WWII in an England where the aristocracy had lost much of it's power and wealth and the characters watch horse races on tv. The story itself is basically the typical Wodehouse kind of story, ludicrous and pretty funny. The reader does a great job, and I enjoyed it a lot. Not quite as funny and the Jeeves and Wooster stories, but still plenty of fun.

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Brilliant narration!

Nigel Lambert's narration is a perfect complement for Wodehouse's story! The characters come to life!

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The worst Jeeves novel unfortunately

A huge fan of Wodehouse, Jeeves, Blandings and everything else Plum, I have always been greatly disappointed by Ring for Jeeves. The story is weak. Very weak. It bumps jarringly all the way. The characters are neither interesting nor well-developed. The plot and subplots are brittle and forced and the attempts at humour are flat, strained, and repetitive and one can always guess the exact punchline is coming up next. This is like a post-Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner which lasts for weeks on leftovers from other novels and causes much dyspepsia. Not even the Amazing Mr Nigel Lambert can redeem it, although he tries his best.

Every Wodehouse lover will read this, for we must read all his works which are so brilliant, and leave wondering why Plum wrote this at all.

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More Modern Art than Tradition

I love PJ woodhouse and many of the audible versions but in this reading the female character voices and even a few of the male ones in this story sound so distinctly horrid that its not worth listening to this title unless this is what you are after...

If you want modern art in a raspy presenting as male but really as female as Professor Trelawney the Hogwarts Divination teacher than you might be interested in this version. The male sounding female voice that is sickly sweet and still raspy is hard to beat as modern art but its so powerful and strange that it takes over the whole story and its hard to parse out the good writing from underneath the story and enjoy the words. The same with a few of the other characters.

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Brilliantly unexpected

A series of witty coincidences and total blunders which still allow a totally unexpected happy ending.

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Love Will Find A Way

Surprised ending was nice surprise. The description of the old mansion added extra flavor to the story. I've been such locations and there is always talk of repair and sale. Wish the character of the adventurer had been fleshed out more.

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