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chloekg's review against another edition
4.0
Delightful! This collection is a little formulaic and exhaustingly British, but each story has an outstanding cast of characters and charming shenanigans. Good-natured humor at its finest.
katzreads's review against another edition
I'm entering in all of my old P.G. Wodehouse books.
dantastic's review against another edition
4.0
Wodehouse on Crime is a collection of 12 Wodehouse tales, all dealing with larceny or deception in some way. My favorite is The Crimewave at Blandings. Emsworth's grandson brings an air rifle to the castle and the ensuing shooting spree shakes the castle to its very foundation. Fun stuff.
roshk99's review against another edition
4.0
A collection of Wodehouse short stories from various books. Wodehouse is always a pleasure to read.
slferg's review against another edition
5.0
I love Wodehouse's humor and his books. This is so much fun.
amyl88's review against another edition
4.0
I'm on a Wodehouse mission. I am now looking for dead tree copies. I'm also trying to read his whole catalog. I picked this up at Half Price books on my birthday, the day Kobe Bryant died, before all this virus crap started. While I had read a couple of these stories before, most were new to me. This is a collection of stories that are focused on crimes in some way.
Mostly hilarious. Most of his main characters are moronic, idle boys with money (but never enough) and schemes doomed to failure. I think my favorite story in this one is Aunt Agatha Takes the Count, even though the volume doesn't include the follow-up tale that tells what happens when the scam artists come back to collect their... well, spoilers, sweetie... Wodehouse also has such a way with dialogue. I can actually hear it in my mind and picture the scenes. Someone needs to make Wodehouse movies ASAP! (Although we did watch a couple of episodes of the BBC show Blandings from 2013, and MEH! Something didn't quite translate. Even Jennifer Saunders couldn't save it! I'm not sure why, but it just wasn't as great as it should have been. Maybe we should have given it another episode or two. And I can't find the Fry/Laurie Jeeves series on DVD)
Mostly hilarious. Most of his main characters are moronic, idle boys with money (but never enough) and schemes doomed to failure. I think my favorite story in this one is Aunt Agatha Takes the Count, even though the volume doesn't include the follow-up tale that tells what happens when the scam artists come back to collect their... well, spoilers, sweetie... Wodehouse also has such a way with dialogue. I can actually hear it in my mind and picture the scenes. Someone needs to make Wodehouse movies ASAP! (Although we did watch a couple of episodes of the BBC show Blandings from 2013, and MEH! Something didn't quite translate. Even Jennifer Saunders couldn't save it! I'm not sure why, but it just wasn't as great as it should have been. Maybe we should have given it another episode or two. And I can't find the Fry/Laurie Jeeves series on DVD)
tome15's review against another edition
4.0
Wodehouse, P. G. Fore! The Best of Wodehouse on Golf. Mariner, 1999.
Next to Bertie Wooster and his man Jeeves, my favorite Wodehouse character is “the oldest member” featured in the stories here, most of which were written in the 1920s. He is an old codger who used to play golf but now just hangs out at the bar looking out on the ninth green. Like the ancient mariner, he grabs passersby and regales them with advice and tales, whether they want to hear them or not. His stories always involve golf and usually involve golfers with romantic difficulties, which golf either helps them solve or makes them worse. I don’t play golf, but Herbert Warren Wind, the longtime golf columnist for the New Yorker magazine loved him and has written a book about him. If you are as ignorant about the history of golf as I am, you may want to look at Wikipedia’s obsolete golf clubs page—yes, there really is one. You do need to know the difference between a mashie and a niblick. These stories inspired two thoughts: wouldn’t it be fun to see modern golfers playing a links course with 1920s equipment, and did Wodehouse intend the anatomical innuendo in his character’s name?
Next to Bertie Wooster and his man Jeeves, my favorite Wodehouse character is “the oldest member” featured in the stories here, most of which were written in the 1920s. He is an old codger who used to play golf but now just hangs out at the bar looking out on the ninth green. Like the ancient mariner, he grabs passersby and regales them with advice and tales, whether they want to hear them or not. His stories always involve golf and usually involve golfers with romantic difficulties, which golf either helps them solve or makes them worse. I don’t play golf, but Herbert Warren Wind, the longtime golf columnist for the New Yorker magazine loved him and has written a book about him. If you are as ignorant about the history of golf as I am, you may want to look at Wikipedia’s obsolete golf clubs page—yes, there really is one. You do need to know the difference between a mashie and a niblick. These stories inspired two thoughts: wouldn’t it be fun to see modern golfers playing a links course with 1920s equipment, and did Wodehouse intend the anatomical innuendo in his character’s name?
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