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pyatBook 24 of the year was Summer Lightning, by P.G. Wodehouse (1929). SL precedes Summer Moonshine, book 19 on the list, and is also set in Blandings Castle. I found I enjoyed these two Blandings Castle tales a bit more than the Jeeves and Wooster stories. I suspect, however, that this may simply be due to long familiarity with the Jeeves and Wooster setting and style. Those stories tread well-worn grooves in my mind, whereas the Blandings Castle novels are new to me.
The plot is the usual mesh of young love amongst privileged Upper Class Twits, with the usual Wodehousian play of words and patter. Wodehouse is sort of the literary equivalent of Gilbert and Sullivan. It’s all good, but it’s all more or less the same.
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velvetpage and I saw the new Indiana Jones film last week while in L.A. I quite enjoyed it, though it did have several silly bits. The only part that really bothered me was the business with the amphibious car.
Also, P.S., Marion is still the bee’s knees.
The plot is the usual mesh of young love amongst privileged Upper Class Twits, with the usual Wodehousian play of words and patter. Wodehouse is sort of the literary equivalent of Gilbert and Sullivan. It’s all good, but it’s all more or less the same.
velvetpage and I saw the new Indiana Jones film last week while in L.A. I quite enjoyed it, though it did have several silly bits. The only part that really bothered me was the business with the amphibious car.Also, P.S., Marion is still the bee’s knees.
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Date: 2008-06-23 06:44 pm (UTC)Also, the bit in the chase scene where she was knocked out, then recovered immediately, sort of bugged me.
Finally, I was SURE that Indy and the Huge Russian Dude were going to have a long, bloody fist-fight on that giant tree-cutting machine, one that ended with the Huge Russian Dude falling onto a saw blade.
Granted, the mummy tearing was a bit silly, but it was a very Indy thing to do. Let's smash the library floor! Let's use this Egyptian statue to crash a hole in the wall!
More to the point, it was very much the sort of thing a 1930s adventurer might do. Need to open the tomb? Bring dynamite! Want to check for a gold necklace on the mummy? Awww, just slice off them bandages. We'll sew 'em back!
Though, by 1957 that was no longer true.
I liked the asylum - it was an interesting bit of genuine pathos, and very Lovecraftian. Though, wow, Oxley had a HUUUGE cell.