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My Man Jeeves
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
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Publisher's Summary
This collection, the first book of Jeeves and Wooster stories, contains eight stories, including "Absent Treatment", "Helping Freddie", "Rallying Round Old George", "Doing Clarence a Bit of Good", "Fixing It for Freddie", and "Bertie Changes His Mind".
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Ken
- 19-06-07
Jeeves and Pepper
Despite the title, more than half the book is stories about Reggie Pepper. Same flavor as the Jeeves books, and of course Wodehouse is excellent, but if it's Jeeves you want, you'll do better with another title.
76 people found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- David Field
- 04-05-11
Best Narrator, but wish I'd known it was reprinted
I have always loved Jeeves stories, and when I got this collection among my first Audible purchases, it quickly became my fallback whenever I had finished a heavier book and wanted something light to fill in before picking up another. I think I've listened to it at least a couple dozen times now, and I still enjoy it. Sure, I've got the stories practically memorized, and the plots will never surprise me, but they're still worth a chuckle. I only wish I had known that all the Jeeves stories in this book were reprinted in Carry On, Jeeves before I bought that one as well. If buying the books in print, I would rather have had the full Jeeves collection in Carry On, Jeeves, minus the Reggie Pepper stories in My Man Jeeves, which I've never found quite as entertaining.
For that reason, I'd give it two stars if not for Simon Prebble's narration. I think he makes a far better Jeeves than any other I've heard so far, and his renderings of some of the elderly relatives in the stories make it worth listening to some of them twice in a row just to hear a specific passage again. The one that comes to mind most is the uncle's shock and outrage upon seeing the portrait for the first time in the Hard-Boiled Egg. Definitely recommended. If only Prebble had narrated the other Jeeves books on Audible.
61 people found this helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Barbara
- 24-07-08
Misleading title
Once again I should have read the reviews. I do love Wodehouse and this reading is very good, but as another reviewer pointed out, these are not all -- or even MOST -- Jeeves and Wooster stories. The Jeeves shorts included are also in several other collections I own, as expected, and the Reggie Pepper stories are in a similar vein but definitely lack the charm of Bertie Wooster's self-told tales. Worth the sale price or for diehard fans only.
61 people found this helpful
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- connie
- 16-01-09
ditto, ditto...
...to the previous reviews--I found this an OK listen, far from Wodehouse's best AND it is as much Reggie Pepper as Jeeves and Bertie. The situations and gags are repetitive if you've read much Wodehouse. Some of this collection seems to be earlier sketches of what developed into full length books.
Also, I found the humour weaker than the five "Jeeves" novels I've listened to- Wodehouse's gags work better in the longer form, because face it, though brilliant, Jeeves and Bertie have limited range. The humour is in the build up to their muddles and the running gags, not in short stories that limit their tangled mania.
Do yourself a favour and spend more money on a full length Jeeves and Bertie adventure.
Prebble is an excellent narrator, but I think F. Davidson better captures Jeeves and Bertie in his readings.
43 people found this helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Erica
- 30-08-06
Very very very funny!!!
P.G. Wodehouse was truly a humor genius. This book is full of hilarious mishaps and adventures, and the first person narration makes it all the more laugh out loud hilarious! DO NOT MISS P.G. WODEHOUSE - Listen to them all - you will not be disapointed if you like humor.
29 people found this helpful
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- Washington Fun
- 20-01-17
a lot of silliness!
old fashioned silly fun. short stories easy to listen to in small bursts. excellent narration.
10 people found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- J
- 01-01-17
Enjoyable and giggle-inducing
This collection of short stories is not as good as the novels, where stories and silly conversation are allowed a tad more free rein.
On the other hand, the morsels of Wodehouse's authorship presented within make for a thoroughly enjoyable listen and make it well worth the price of acquisition.
What ho, old top!
10 people found this helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Empowerment
- 11-08-08
Good Book
Good book. Not all Jeeves but still very funny.
9 people found this helpful
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- Roger McCoy
- 06-04-17
many short funny tales
very funny and the reader was spot on. each chapter is it's own short story.
7 people found this helpful
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- Ellenaeddy
- 04-10-12
Too much gin and too uppity
These books don't date well for me. They run on the 20's attitude that everyone drinks like fish and that the upper crust needs someone to toddle around afterwards and clean up after them.
I know they're classics, but both those things tend to ruin this for me. I daresay it's a good portrait of a time and space, but they strike me as sad rather than funny.
7 people found this helpful
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Jean
- 31-07-12
Disappointing
From the title I expected this would be Jeeves and Wooster stories. There are 8 chapters, only 4 are J and W. The rest are completely unknown and not interesting characters. So not really as described
9 people found this helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Welsh Mafia
- 11-10-08
Corky, Rocky Todd ? the story begins splendidly
Rummy sort of a book this, what? I mean, I know squads of chappies wouldn?t touch it with a pair of extending sugar tongs. But then, as my Great Uncle Cleasant used to say, you can?t judge a book by the date of its library stamp. I mean, so far as Cless was concerned, he?d be less miffed by the fact that this appeared in 1919 than by the fact that old Pelham Grenville managed to slip at least three stories by that vagabond Reggie Pepper (son of the Colliery people) when you thought you were getting the full Jeeves and Wooster for your shilling. What a scamp, eh?
But, other than that, the gang?s all here ? Aunt Agatha, Corky, Rocky Todd and a setting that?s exclusively Manhattan, don?t you know. Station clerks peeping out over the battlements at Penn Station, the girls from 'Frolics at Midnight' and that scourge of musical comedy, the evangelist Jimmy Munday for heavens sake. Its one? long hoot from soup to nuts?The green dust jacket needs a little work, however, I?m sure you?ll agree, sir??
6 people found this helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance2 out of 5 stars
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- B R LEGGE
- 26-03-19
Not much Jeeves.
not much Jeeves. lots of pepper. narrator's voice not to my taste, but that's personal preference.
1 person found this helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- hhj
- 26-11-22
Great collection of short stories
I really enjoyed these early PG Wodehouse stories. For those who think there's not enough Jeeves, it's a collection of short stories and the convention at the time (only one year after the Great War) was to title the book after one of the stories. No-one realised at the time how popular Jeeves would become. There's a Katherine Mansfield collection of short stories published around the same time called 'Bliss' but there are about a dozen other quite different stories. Wodehouse and his publisher could have called it Reggie Pepper and who remembers him as fondly?
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- filip starczan
- 07-09-22
Need more Jeeves
Only half of the stories involve Jeeves who is by far the best character in the book!
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- Kitty
- 05-09-22
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