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Topic started by Saketh on Mon Aug 30 17:11:04 .

What do you think of British Humour?
Partiularly the funny world of Wodehouse and his characters?

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From: Plum on Fri Apr 17 12:30:01 2009. [Full View]

There's also summer moonshine where he goes
" Critics have carped that we use the same characters under different. Hope they have met the same fate as the children that mocked at the bear elijiah. In a move to confound them, we have decided to use the same characters under same name this story...
Our initial happiness ata striking a name like summer moonshine was subsequently tempered by realising that there are 18 novels, 3 short stories, 5 books named sm. Here's hoping that this would be remembered among the 100 best movies named sm."
Ofcourse, I am paraphrasing which takes away the fun, but the original is a masterpiece. He also refers cortez and pacific there.
Once upon a time I could quote it verbatim when woken up from sleep - ravages of time!
From: P_R on Fri Apr 17 13:10:27 2009. [Full View]

adhu Summer Lightning

One awesome preface. That same season another booked called Summer Lightning would have been released in the US

The novel's not bad either

It has the scene where Baxter jump out of the window and into the garden patch

There was amid the garden bed of lobelias, something that was so profoundly not a lobelia. It was the efficient Baxter on all fours.
From: Plum on Fri Apr 17 13:23:39 2009. [Full View]

. Must re-read some of those.
From: P_R on Sat May 2 1:23:51 2009. [Full View]

sari sari, unga Jeeves kadhai enna aachchu ?
From: Plum on Sat May 2 12:05:07 2009. [Full View]

Thedindurukken. Romba expectationlaam vechukaadheenga - it was pretty juvenile an effort, though I was probably older than you are now, when I wrote it- I am always in. A struggle to play my age and being left behind
From: rangan_08 on Sat Oct 31 5:28:17 2009. [Full View]

I know that this piece will not surprise you folks ! But just look at the brilliance of flow...

from " The Good Angel "

" Keggs was a man - one must use that word, though it seems grossly inadequate - of medium height, pigeon-toed at the base, bulgy half-way up, and bald at the apex " .
From: Plum on Thu Nov 5 9:02:56 2009. [Full View]

The thing is you just cannot share this humour with anyone else - it only works for you fresh off the page. Really unique in that sense
From: rangan_08 on Tue Nov 10 10:02:33 2009. [Full View]

In a way, what u say is right plum. Since they are meant to be humorous short stories, the plots are generally frivilous and predictable and mostly with an happy ending. It's the narration that does all the fire works. But that's not the case with Jeeves and other novels where you have plots, sub plots and interesting knots.

The biggest advantage of his works is that whenever you feel your " spirits " are low, you just pull out a book from the rack and start reading from any page and I'm sure you'll come back to your original " spirits " very soon. Though there are many other " cheer(s)ful ways to get back your spirits, I would always prefer the gentleman's gentleman because I too am a gentleman

BTW, in the league of " Bharathidasan ", " Kannadasan " and other dasan's, you must have chosen to be " Plummadasan ". But, as a direct rip-off, you became Plum !!! Hope you don't pay any royalty to the "dorai's " descendants, if any.
From: P_R on Sat Nov 14 3:40:12 2009. [Full View]

Ukridge
Just read "Dog College" and "Accident Syndicate" stories till now.
It's been a long time since I read Wodehouse.
From: Plum on Mon Nov 16 6:31:56 2009. [Full View]

Rangan, apdi ipdi Plum-nu pErai appropriate paNNittOm. kandukkAdhInga

Ukridge is one of the most colourful characters - the Accident Syndicate is one of the best. It can be made into a nice tamil movie or a short serial even now. Shoot it, there is more chance of that happening in Hindi, let me admit. Sometime back Kundan Shah was supposed to start on an adaptation of Leave it to Psmith as a Hindi movie. Never heard of it since.
Even I havent read Wodehouse in years now.

Ukridge specials
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Dog College
Love Among Chicken
That story on managing a giant bodied, fragile minded boxer
His sojourn with the wealthy aunt in Wimbledon
The short one where Ukridge foists his nephew and aunt from the province on his writer friend, and the latter ends up driving them around London upon the kid's insistence, on seeing such historical places as the house of the stonehenge murder(or some such), the nook where the serial killer was caught etc.

I'll have to observe something here - I do believe a lot of his worldview comes from *reading newspapers*. Yes, I have often tried to analyse such characters as the above kid, and many other quirks - a collection of his other essays does reveal a tendency to make articles out of newspaper letters, and reportage. I do strongly believe that he could build something out of mundate newspaper reports as well.

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