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- Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!frankm
- From: frankm@microsoft.com (Frank R.A.J. Maloney)
- Subject: Re: Pitchfork?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.170251.20452@microsoft.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 17:02:51 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Windows/DOS Users Ed Group
- References: <1993Jan22.195524.18393@Shiva.COM> <C1A3KJ.EH7@news.iastate.edu>
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- In article <C1A3KJ.EH7@news.iastate.edu> sachin@iastate.edu (Sachin S Sapatnekar) writes:
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- >
- >2. Is there anyone around who agrees that Blandings and Psmith and
- >many of PGW's other works are far better than the Bertie Wooster stories?
- >(Probably not!)
- >
-
- I have to say I'm not overly fond of Psmith -- too much the smart ass
- for my tastes -- but I am very keen on the Blandings stories which seem
- to me to be the natural development from Jeeves and Wooster. But truth
- to tell the series that sets me to absolutely rocking with mirth is the
- golfing stories told by The Oldest Member. These seem to me to be a
- very high form of absurdism. The fact that I, a non-golfer, can "get
- it" is, I think, a tribute to Wodehouse's superb skills. I'm pleased
- that the most literary of my golfing friends also is devoted to these
- stories.
-
-
- --
- Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
- "Well, I'm a little muddled." -- Glinda
-