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P.G. Wodehouse

Hardcover | Pages: 240 pages

Rating: 4.11 | 791 Users | 106 Reviews

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Title	:	Quick Service
Author	:	P.G. Wodehouse
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	April 15th 2004 by Everyman (first published January 1st 1940)
Categories	:	Fiction. Humor. Classics

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When imperious American widow Beatice Chavender eats a forkful of inferior ham at her sister's country home near London, it affects the lives of everyone around her--her sister, her brother-in-law, her sister's butler, her sister's poor relation Sally, Sally's fiance Lord Holbeton, and, most of all, Mrs. Chavender's own one-time fiance, "Ham King" J.B. Duff, whose rotten product spoils her breakfast.

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Original Title:	Quick Service
ISBN:	1841591289 (ISBN13: 9781841591285)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Mabel Steptoe, Jocelyn Parmalee Weatherby, Sally Fairmile, George Trotter, Howard Steptoe, Beatrice Chavender, James Buchanan Duff, Sidney Chibnall, Daphne Hessetyne, Vera Pym, Mrs. Barlow, Mrs. Ellis, Charles, Patricia, Clunk, Otis Chavender, Purkis, Wildcat Wix

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This was my first Wodehouse, chosen because it's a relatively quick audiobook (narrated very delightfully by Simon Vance). It took a bit of getting into for me, maybe because Joss's view of Sally is a little too Victorian "angel"-y for my taste. But my interest really picked up when I first detected the humor that made it clear to me that Wodehouse was an influence on Terry Pratchett--notably, J.B. Duff's shrubbery-esque mustache, and Miss Pym's suspicious sidelong glances at it. I also very

Finished this last night. Hilarious. I'd say it's my favorite Wodehouse book that's not part of a series. Joss Weatherby reminds me of Psmith a bit .

A decent but not spectacular Wodehouse without any of his recurring characters. I realize his books are about as contrived as any fiction ever created (and this is not at all a bad thing in the hands of such a master), but this one seemed even more so. The reasons for everyone's interest in perloining the portrait were just too shallow to make the story gel, in my estimation. Still, this novel has its moments and, after all, it IS Wodehouse in his prime....

P. G. Wodehouse is the best. After trying and failing to find humor in two highly-lauded Gary Shteyngart books, I needed to go to something that I knew would work. I've read this one before and it is delightful, even if Wodehouse's plot devices can be a bit threadbare. His use of language sure isn't, and I continue to find new wonders in the text. In this one I learned about the "Lambeth Walk" and other cultural references and vocabulary words. In my senior years I'm doing a victory lap with

There lay before him in the years to come, he estimated, some nine thousand, two hundred and twenty five breakfasts, and at each of these breakfasts he would see this woman's face across the table. And he liked it. He was heart and soul in favor of the thing. By careful attention to his health, he hoped to make the total larger.

This was my first Wodehouse book and it wont be my last. I listened to the audio book read by Simon Vance and it was lovely to hear. The book was a slow start for me, I almost gave up within the first 30 minutes, but Im so glad I didnt. Once I had a grasp of the names of what felt like a lot of characters at once, things picked up.This gets 5 stars from me because I had multiple laugh out loud moments, the dialogue is quite witty. I found myself chuckling over just how British some things were.

Never in my life have I texted the acronym "lol," probably because I'm inordinately proud, but also because it's used entirely too often. Very seldom does one, I find, actually laugh out loud from something that one reads. Therefore I submit to the world the addition of "literally" to everyone's favorite acronym in order to produce a more accurate reflection of the world around us. That being said, this book is so full of llols that one often has trouble getting to the end of a paragraph with