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The Luck of the Bodkins
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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- George
- 08-04-13
Well written - well read
The publisher's summary sums up the plot very well - and Wodehouse is in his usual excellent form devising twists and turns, some of which you see coming and look forward to and others which take you by surpise.
Jonathan Cecil narrates this very well, handling a number of different accents with professional competence.
I listened to this with my father, a lifelong Wodehouse fan, on a journey from Buckinghamshire to Inverness-shire and we were only disappointed that our destination was not somewhat further away.
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- Lord Emsworth
- 15-03-21
Another Wodehouse winner
I've read so many books by the wonderful P.G. Wodehouse that I am not always sure, until I get started, whether I have read the book in my hand before. To my great delight I soon realised I had never read The Luck of the Bodkins (1935).
I had however read Heavy Weather (1933), which precedes it, and Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin (1972) which belatedly (in terms of publishing date) picks up the story again.
Jonathan Cecil's narration is superb as always
The Luck of the Bodkins continues the story of the complicated love life of amiable young Monty Bodkin, the nephew of Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe. When Monty last appeared in Heavy Weather he was the latest in the long line of Lord Emsworth's secretaries. He is still hoping to marry his fiancée Gertrude Butterwick but, as usual, the course of true love does not run smoothly.
PGW hits us with a zinger on the first page...
"Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French."
The Luck of the Bodkins is another Wodehousian wonder. A delight from start to finish. What it lacks in tears rolling down the cheeks total hilarity it makes up for with inventiveness and splendid characters. Most of the action takes place on an ocean liner, the RMS Atlantic, en route to New York from England which provides the perfect context for the usual misunderstandings which thwart the path of true love.
Needless to say it's another Wodehouse winner.
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- Zoony Lazoon
- 17-06-19
Outstanding reading
The performance is sublime - exactly what Wodehouse needs. Cecil does bewilderment so beautifully. Plummy and hilarious.
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- Frank
- 04-01-18
The Luck of the Bodkins
This a most enjoyable book. The reader Jonatha Cecil makes the characters come to life. If like P. G. Wodehouse you will love version of The Luck of the Bodkins.
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- Honandal
- 19-06-15
Good
Once again the chapter numbers on the index don't match the audio. Why? Otherwise fine.
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- Oscar
- 13-05-14
One of the very best
What made the experience of listening to The Luck of the Bodkins the most enjoyable?
This is Wodehouse writing at the peak of his considerable powers. A great cast of hilarious characters, some astonishingly good scenes and sequences all of which are plotted in a masterly fashion.
Which character – as performed by Jonathan Cecil – was your favourite?
This is the first P G Wodehouse I have listened to narrated by Jonathan Cecil; heretofore, I was a Martin Jarvis devotee. However, I have to say that although Jonathan Cecil's performance is quite different -and he doesn't have the great range that Martin Jarvis has, I found myself completely won over by his interpretation and his Lotty Blossom and Ikey Llewellyn are fabulously unforgettable.
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- Mr. N. C. Angel
- 16-07-23
Pure audio pleasure
Just lovely. Joyful. A golden eight hours or so of Wodehousian nirvana. Somehow I have never come across this character (Monty B) before, but as with my discovery of Psmith I realise there is more to PG than Bertie and the butler. What ho! And do dive in, I say. Oh - and hats off to Albert Peasmarch. A creation of comic genius.
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- d t
- 27-12-16
Clunky practice for Jeeves and Wooster
Although I'm a fan of other PGW books, this one is so full of characters staggering around in shellshocked silence at the news of some contrived plot twist, and then making ridiculously unlikely plot-advancing decisions in response, I simply couldn't make it to the end.
It's read very well though, and the sound is clear which sets it apart from other PGW books from audible.
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- PD
- 02-03-15
Pure bliss
If you are a PG fan it really is worth jumping from Bertie and Blandings to Bodkins (and all the other less famous work). Wonderful, evocative, laugh out loud entertainment. God bless you PG.
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- H
- 18-07-14
Wonderful!
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Bought this for a long car journey, and was chuckling all the way to Toulouse...!!!
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