Ring for Jeeves

The Jeeves and Wooster Series

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Nigel Lambert

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 pajamas.

©1954 P. G. Wodehouse (P)2016 Blackstone Audio

Jeeves tale with no Wooster

This story doesn’t include Wooster as Jeeves is currently on loan to another from Wooster. Still, it has wonderful drama and Jeeves is ever the comforting counsel to all. Not my absolute favorite narrator of a Jeeves and Wooster novel but Nigel does a great job alternating between voices.

Great book ruined by awful narration

A great book from Wodehouse as any. Between Billy's Incessant gulping and Rosy's linking-R, the audio book is mired by Nigel's overly dramatic narration.

All around fun!

Great reading and the voices are excellent. I cannot wait for the next book in series.

Jeeves Without Wooster

It’s just not the same. The best lines in the series are always delivered by the narrator, Bertie Wooster. This one just doesn’t do it for me.

The Audible narration is very good—the best Wodehouse reader out there who’s not named Cecil.

what's not to like?

What's not to like? The story is fun and different and the reading performance is fun and different. What more could you want?

Hilarious!

I think this may be the best of the Jeeves sagas! Listening to the Audible reader makes it even funnier.

Turns and more turns.

The story kept turning. You expected one thing to happen, and then something else does. This keeps the story interesting. I also can not understand how Rory stays married.

The American accent needs work.

Unfortunately there were way too many “r”s in places they don’t belong. I would have almost preferred keeping the English accent all the way through.

Not his best

When considering a PG Wodehouse tale, especially one with Jeeves, look elsewhere.

First, this is perhaps the only Jeeves tale in which Bertie Wooster does not appear accept by reference. As a result, Bertie’s blathering narration - the pinnacle of Plum’s art - is consp. by its a. in this work.

Also, the narration of this particular version, while extraordinarily versatile, has two characters so overacted that they detract from even the flawed book from which they are drawn.

Given that Wodehouse wrote nearly 100 books, it’s easy to find spectacularly superior ones if you’re in the market - the names of Joy in the Morning, The Code of the Woosters, and The Mating Season spring to mind.

Egregious reader

The reader’s nauseating portrayal of the main character renders this book almost unlistenable. Most of the other characters are dine well. The story is typical Wodehouse / Jeeves which is always enjoyable, but I would suggest looking for a different version of this audio book unless you enjoy listening to a baby-talk / Jar Jar Binks type character.