Book Buddies: "What ho!" by Wodehouse

**Scheherazade** · 06-23-2010, 09:23 AM

Please join us reading and discussing What ho! by Wodehouse.

Hope June 28th is good for everyone!

**Scheherazade** · 07-04-2010, 12:21 PM

I have finally managed to go to the library to collect my copy.

First impression: It is almost as thick as the first volume of Norton!

After starting to read, I am finding it hard to put it down. Reminds of Three Men in a Boat a lot as well as Importance of Being Earnest.

Love the use of language (makes me wish I could speak like that in daily life):

...what the dickens there was a pink chap like the pink chap, who even as pink chaps go wasn't much of a pink chap, to make her look alike that, was frankly, Pongo says, more than he could understand.

**Neely** · 07-04-2010, 04:14 PM

What ho! Splendid stuff!

**dfloyd** · 07-07-2010, 01:01 PM

in P. G. Wodehouse. P. G. Wodehouse would not be expected to be an English expatriate, but he was. He may have kept his English citizenship, but he applied for and gained his American citizenship. He passed away in his nineties in a retirement home in the very un-English state of California.

The P. G. stand for Pelham Grenville, a very British name.

**Scheherazade** · 07-09-2010, 06:49 PM

Originally Posted by dfloyd

The P. G. stand for Pelham Grenville, a very British name.

Interesting names. I often wonder about these initials and then realise that there is a reason they use just the initials!

Have read 1/5 of the book and am starting to find it a little repetitive now.

I think I will read one story a day and pick up something else to read along with it as well.