Results 1 to 5 of 5

Thread: Book Buddies: "What ho!" by Wodehouse

  1. #1
    Pièce de Résistance Scheherazade's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2004
    Location
    Tweet @ScherLitNet
    Posts
    23,903

    Book Buddies: "What ho!" by Wodehouse

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


    Hope June 28th is good for everyone!
    ~
    "It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
    ~


  2. #2
    Pièce de Résistance Scheherazade's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2004
    Location
    Tweet @ScherLitNet
    Posts
    23,903
    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.
    ~
    "It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
    ~


  3. #3
    What ho! Splendid stuff!

  4. #4
    Registered User
    Join Date
    Jan 2009
    Posts
    1,206

    Cool How many know what the initials P. G. stand for ....

    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.

  5. #5
    Pièce de Résistance Scheherazade's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2004
    Location
    Tweet @ScherLitNet
    Posts
    23,903
    Quote Originally Posted by dfloyd View Post
    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.
    ~
    "It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
    ~


Similar Threads

  1. What is the last movie you saw? and rate it.
    By piquant in forum General Movies, Music, and Television
    Replies: 7158
    Last Post: 03-13-2023, 04:04 PM
  2. film vs Book
    By poehee99 in forum General Chat
    Replies: 25
    Last Post: 10-25-2012, 04:00 AM
  3. Review: Science Writing & Philosophy
    By Dodo25 in forum Philosophical Literature
    Replies: 10
    Last Post: 05-20-2010, 05:27 PM
  4. Albert Goldbarth: "Library" part 1
    By amuse in forum Poems, Poets, and Poetry
    Replies: 0
    Last Post: 03-05-2004, 07:28 PM
  5. Albert Goldbarth: "Library" part 2
    By amuse in forum Poems, Poets, and Poetry
    Replies: 0
    Last Post: 03-05-2004, 07:27 PM

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •