Just started re-reading this. You can see his influences, especially the Jeeves/Wooster relationship of Jock and “Mr Charlie”, but that’s no bad thing
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Just laughed out loud on the bus at: “It was still only nine o’clock when I set off on the last leg of my journey, feeling old and dirty and incapable. You probably know the feeling if you are over eighteen.”
aug 27, 2025, 7:25 am • 14 3 • view
There’s also an old countess at dinner, “cramming the groceries into her frail body like one who provisions a yacht for a long voyage”
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I loved the first one, quite liked the second, thought the third was off the boil badly tbh
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Yes, I read the whole trilogy 30ish years ago, and remember the drop off in quality. I may stop at 1 this time
aug 27, 2025, 12:44 pm • 0 0 • view
I liked that one. Or those three. I haven't dared to watch the film adaptation....
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Oh, yes. I'm not going anywhere near that
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