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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 06:51 pm (UTC)A VERY much the sort of thing players in my Call of Cthulhu game would do...