Reading List
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanI have to say that I can’t wait to get home tonight; my copy of the Fantastic Four Omnibus arrived this morning from Amazon (it went straight from “unavailable” to delivered without a squeak) and Bryan’s internal eight year old is bouncing up and down with eager anticipation while the rest of me is looking forward to a nostalgic trip down comics memory lane.
If I count that, I will have three books on the go at the same time (I’m not sure it does count, but there we are): I’m reading![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pax_draconis’s book, which is significantly re-edited from the proof I read some time back, to the extent that I can’t separate out where or if my memory is playing me false or where there have been additions or deletions (or re-orderings). A combination of circumstances, I guess. Interesting, too, to compare this finished article with the version of the plot we ran in the corresponding NWO game. I keep expecting characters from other plotlines to make cameo appearances. Maybe they have and I have failed to notice.
At the same time, I am reading “Uncle Dynamite” by PG Wodehouse; a novel featuring Pongo Twistleton of the Drone’s Club (though I don’t think he appears in any of the Jeeves books) and his uncle, Frederick Altamont Cornwalis Twistleton, the fifth Earl of Ickenham (previously met as “Uncle Fred” in various other books, including a number of the Blandings saga. Marvelous stuff.
I heartily recommend the new hardback Everyman editions of the Wodehouse corpus for anyone looking to beef up their Wodehouse collection (and let’s face it, who in their right mind isn’t?). I found a copy of “My Man Jeeves” in this series for Furtle, featuring early treatments of Jeeves stories featuring Reggie Pepper (a prototype of Bertie Wooster), which were later rewritten as Jeeves stories we are more familiar with. Furtle in turn, found me a copy of “Uncle Dynamite”. The books are printed in hardcover in the style of the original editions and on acid-free paper, which means that whilst the rest of your library is dissolving, these will, like Tolkien’s elves go on pretty much forever, barring accidents.
If I count that, I will have three books on the go at the same time (I’m not sure it does count, but there we are): I’m reading
pax_draconis’s book, which is significantly re-edited from the proof I read some time back, to the extent that I can’t separate out where or if my memory is playing me false or where there have been additions or deletions (or re-orderings). A combination of circumstances, I guess. Interesting, too, to compare this finished article with the version of the plot we ran in the corresponding NWO game. I keep expecting characters from other plotlines to make cameo appearances. Maybe they have and I have failed to notice.At the same time, I am reading “Uncle Dynamite” by PG Wodehouse; a novel featuring Pongo Twistleton of the Drone’s Club (though I don’t think he appears in any of the Jeeves books) and his uncle, Frederick Altamont Cornwalis Twistleton, the fifth Earl of Ickenham (previously met as “Uncle Fred” in various other books, including a number of the Blandings saga. Marvelous stuff.
I heartily recommend the new hardback Everyman editions of the Wodehouse corpus for anyone looking to beef up their Wodehouse collection (and let’s face it, who in their right mind isn’t?). I found a copy of “My Man Jeeves” in this series for Furtle, featuring early treatments of Jeeves stories featuring Reggie Pepper (a prototype of Bertie Wooster), which were later rewritten as Jeeves stories we are more familiar with. Furtle in turn, found me a copy of “Uncle Dynamite”. The books are printed in hardcover in the style of the original editions and on acid-free paper, which means that whilst the rest of your library is dissolving, these will, like Tolkien’s elves go on pretty much forever, barring accidents.
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Date: 2008-09-09 12:29 pm (UTC)Now that I've left it a while, I'm hoping it will be an easier read.
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Date: 2008-09-09 12:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-09 01:07 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_by_P._G._Wodehouse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_short_stories_by_P._G._Wodehouse
I'm pretty sure that the entire list is being republished by Everyman - you should be able to get your fill of Gally and the Empress from there!
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Date: 2008-09-09 01:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-09 01:38 pm (UTC)I had a look on Amazon (look for Everyman Wodehouse), they are still in the process of reissuing, so not everything is available in that format yet, but a number of Blandings stories are!
I shall be buying some myself - also mainly Blandings - as Elle already has a large number of Jeeves stories in paperback but mine, including the Blandings ones seem to have disappeared!
And these are very nice editions.