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Jeeves in the Offing

By: P. G. Wodehouse
Narrated by: Ian Carmichael
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Summary

Jeeves is on holiday in Herne Bay, and while he's away the world caves in on Bertie Wooster. For a start, he's astonished to read in The Times of his engagement to the mercurial Bobbie Wickham. Then at Brinkley Court, his Aunt Dahlia's establishment, he finds his awful former head master in attendance ready to award the prizes at Market Snodsbury Grammar School. And finally the Brinkley butler turns out for reasons of his own to be Bertie's nemesis in disguise, the brain surgeon Sir Roderick Glossop.

With all occasions informing against him, Bertie has to hightail it to Herne Bay to liberate Jeeves from his shrimping net. And after that, the fun really starts.

©2014 P.G. Wodehouse (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Classics Literature & Fiction Funny Comedy
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After listening to Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit which for me was a high mark in the series, I found Jeeves in the Offing a great novel to spend time with, and great good fun, largely because the whirl-wind Bobbie Wickham. Bertie’s friend Kipper is good to get to know. Aunt Dahlia is as supremely herself, and Sir Roderick Glossop gloriously a departure from his usual self. The audio-book is well produced and clearly performed. However, Ian Carmichael is perhaps less convincing for me as Bertie, and I always expected Lord Peter Wimsey to be revealed. This is my problem and should not worry prospect listeners. By this twelfth outing of Bertie some of the repeating quotes lose some of their sparkle and word abbreviations of one letter do not always work unless the context is clear. This is fine with a print copy of the novel, but with an audio book less so. I am committed to the Jeeves series and am preparing to devour ‘Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves’. I can warmly recommend Jeeves on the offing.

Glorious Bobbie Wickham!

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As ever , anything by PH Wodehouse is magnificent. What was even better was having Ian Carmichael reading as Bertie Wooster. A charming man read by a charming man !

How lovely to hear Ian Carmichael !

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At first, I was a little put off by the fact that the narrator talks so quickly. Several times I had to rewind a bit and listen to something one or two times more before I could make out what it was. I got over that as I got used to the speed though. Only, the more I got used to the speed with which this is narrated, the more I started noticing the fact that the narrator seems to think that Bertie has a speech defect! Often when Bertie is saying something, he sounds like he's nearly stuttering and this doesn't seem to happen with any of the other characters. I found it quite annoying, as I'm pretty certain there has been no mention before of Bertie having this sort of trouble.

Good story, not a favourite narrator

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What did you like most about Jeeves in the Offing?

You either 'get' Wodehouse and love him as I do or you don't.

What does Ian Carmichael bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

Ian Carmichael and Jonathan Cecil are the only two narrators who can do justice to Jeeves and Wooster. Sorry Martin Jarvis - love your William but Wooster : NO, NO, NO.

No review needed!

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Just one point. I understand that actors are not their roles & I understand they can take any job they like but Lord Peter Wimsey playing Bertie Wooster is just confusing!!

brilliant story, superbly read

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