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kashash
05-03-2012, 12:10 PM
Most of the Wooster and Jeeves story teem with silly goofiness, however one of the chapters called "Bertie changes his mind" is almost entirely narrated by Jeeves himself. What books are out there that resemble similar sort of insightfulness, sophistication and swift intelligence in words?

Example:
Tact of course, has always been with me a sine qua non; while as for resource. I think I may say that I have usually contrived to show a certain modicum of what I might call finesse in handling those little contretemps which inevitably arise from time to time in the daily life of a gentleman's personal gentleman.

Kafka's Crow
05-04-2012, 02:27 AM
What can be like Jeeves? Jeeves is unique, the best, the most hilarious. Tom Robins wrote Half Asleep in Frog Pyjamas in second person singular, ie the hilarious narrator narrates her own story to the protagonist. That was quite unique. As far as humour goes, The Flashman series in funny as hell.