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Excerpt kynian, Burgess, Enderby, and Henfrey, had always been sportsmen to him. But it was not the same thing. He had meant to do such a lot for Wrykyn cricket this term. He had had an entirely new system of coaching in his mind. Now it might never be used. He had handed it on in a letter to Strachan, who would be captain in his place; but probably Strachan would have some scheme of his own. There is nobody who could not edit a paper in the ideal way; and there is nobody who has not a theory of his own about cricket coaching at school. Wrykyn, too, would be weak this year, now that he was no longer there. Strachan was a good, free bat on his day, and, if he survived a few overs, might make a century in an hour, but he was not to be depended upon. There was no doubt that Mike's sudden withdrawal meant that Wrykyn would have a bad time that season. And it had been such a wretched athletic year for the school. The football fifteen had been hopeless, and had lost both the Ripton matches, the return by over sixty poin
Mike and Psmith Pelham Grenville Wodehouse 9781542703482 Books
P.G. Wodehouse is of course the man behind lovable nitwit Bertie Wooster and his guardian-angel manservant Jeeves. his second-most renown creation, the Indiana Jones to his Star Wars if you will, is a charming, aristocratic schemer named Rupert Psmith. what you need to know about him can be neatly summed up by his need to add a distinguishing silent P to his last name. while not necessarily a conartist per se, he does have a knack for selling his ideas to others and for taking advantage of his opportunities. his motto is, never confuse the impossible with the unlikely.that's where this book comes in. it serves as the world's introduction to this wily semi-rogue. but alas, it takes the long way about, bringing Psmith in at a little passed the halfway mark. as evidenced by the title, the main character here is one Mike Jackson. Mike would ultimately become Psmith's sidekick, but in the meantime he has his own lackluster story to tell.
Mike meets Psmith when he transfers to a new school. the first half of the book concerns his career as star cricket player for the first school's team. it's an obsession with him, so book centers on the technical aspects of the game to a point that becomes tedious and often confusing. i guess it's possible that i feel this way for being neither British nor a sports enthusiast, but that doesn't make it any more vital to the story.
it's also odd to think of this as the work of Wodehouse - a man sometimes called the British Mark Twain - because it's not all that funny.
with the aforementioned transfer and introduction to Rupert Psmith, however, the story switches into high gear. Mike and Psmith quickly establish their relationship as something somewhere between a Holmes and Watson and an Abbott & Costello, and we're finally treated to the sort of high-spirited farce for which Wodehouse is so justly celebrated. it's just a drag that it takes so long.
which brings us to the happy conclusion i wrote this review specifically to highlight. you can safely disregard MIKE (the book), because another title, MIKE & PSMITH, offers said latter half in it's own right. that one cuts away the needless, Psmith-less preamble and gets down to the nitty-gritty. it's a rare case of a lily being un-gilded for a change. so that's the one to go for.
i don't understand why Wodehouse even bothered to write the first half anyway. all it ever really had any potential to be was the story of a Dr. Watson's life before he finds his Sherlock. does that really sound very interesting to you?
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Mike and Psmith Pelham Grenville Wodehouse 9781542703482 Books Reviews
A delicious romp. Once one gets good and well into a Wodehouse novel, one tends to not want it to end Fortunately, this book is generous in its content! However, by the time it ends, one is, as usual, sorrowful to come to the final page, despite the author having given most unstintingly.. We get a large dose of Psmith in this book, as an added bonus. I'd give it 10 stars if that were possible!
As an aside--for the benefit of Americans...rather than simply leafing past the cricket game text, look the game up on Youtube or Google it. While the bat and terminology varies from baseball's, the essence of the rules are not difficult to pick up, and it does add to the pleasure of the book to know such things as., for instance, what an "L.B.W." (leg behind wicket) means and that it indicates that the batter is out. It also helps to know that a cricket team at bat will have to have ten of its eleven members "out" before they go out to field and the fielding team who scored the ten "outs" comes in to bat.
My favorite Wodehouse character, Psmith, makes his debut in this novel, and Mike has the friend he needed to complement his more simple, straightforward outlook on life. The cricket backdrop to the story makes a difficult job of understanding the sporting nuances, but luckily I lived in England for a few years, so the game isn't completely foreign to me. Warehouse is a "laugh out loud" writer to me, so I try to read his books in private to avoid the puzzled stares at my chortles. Smith (and Mike) are too good to pass up on any reading list that needs a comic lift.
Mike and Psmith (the s is silent like in Pshrimp) is early Wodehouse. In this period he was fresh from his experience as a public School boy. Here he had been happy, a leading athlete with particular success at cricket and boxing. Given the theory that a writer should start with what he knows best, this book is one of many where he will focus on the life of English school boys. Be advised that if you are not a fan of Cricket and fluent in the rules, language and period slang of the game you are going to have to go with the flow and accept that you cannot follow pages of the narrative. Small usages such as ragging for pulling pranks should be clear in context. However the bottom line is that Wodehouse is writing for a period British audience not for contemporary American readers.
This is a very light, and light hearted story. Nothing more is at stake than school loyalty and the demands of friendship. The school masters are faintly distant comedic figures and reality is whatever has the interest of the students.
Mike and PSmith begin the book as strangers to each other and to their new school. Each has been taken from their old school as near academic failures and form a friendship based mostly on not knowing anyone else. Mike is somewhat of an average guy if an exceptional cricket player. Psmith comes across as pretentious and possibly effete, however he has the quicker wit and seems to have many hidden qualities. Between them they will use force and Psmith's fast talking to secure a safe place in the student pecking order and routinely play the adults for fools.
For those of us who relate to Wodehouse mainly via the Bertie and Jeeves books, Psmith comes across as Jeeves clever but clearly destined for a Bertie Wooster lifestyle. In Psmith Wodehouse has created a character rich in contradictions and therefore rich in comedic potential. In Mike and Psmith we are not aware that there will be at least four more Psmith books. It is clear that this character can sustain more stories.
For me the humor in Mike in Psmith was rarely above the quiet smile level. It was a nice enough story. There was not enough plot or plot twists to make this a long book and Wodehouse keep this pacing crisp and the wind up is not long in coming. This book may appeal to younger reader, although perhaps not one missing a background in cricket. I cannot recommend it as an introduction to Wodehouse, but for the reader with some sense of who Wodehouse will become and in particular if you have not yet read the Psmith books, I can recommend Mike and Psmith.
P.G. Wodehouse is of course the man behind lovable nitwit Bertie Wooster and his guardian-angel manservant Jeeves. his second-most renown creation, the Indiana Jones to his Star Wars if you will, is a charming, aristocratic schemer named Rupert Psmith. what you need to know about him can be neatly summed up by his need to add a distinguishing silent P to his last name. while not necessarily a conartist per se, he does have a knack for selling his ideas to others and for taking advantage of his opportunities. his motto is, never confuse the impossible with the unlikely.
that's where this book comes in. it serves as the world's introduction to this wily semi-rogue. but alas, it takes the long way about, bringing Psmith in at a little passed the halfway mark. as evidenced by the title, the main character here is one Mike Jackson. Mike would ultimately become Psmith's sidekick, but in the meantime he has his own lackluster story to tell.
Mike meets Psmith when he transfers to a new school. the first half of the book concerns his career as star cricket player for the first school's team. it's an obsession with him, so book centers on the technical aspects of the game to a point that becomes tedious and often confusing. i guess it's possible that i feel this way for being neither British nor a sports enthusiast, but that doesn't make it any more vital to the story.
it's also odd to think of this as the work of Wodehouse - a man sometimes called the British Mark Twain - because it's not all that funny.
with the aforementioned transfer and introduction to Rupert Psmith, however, the story switches into high gear. Mike and Psmith quickly establish their relationship as something somewhere between a Holmes and Watson and an Abbott & Costello, and we're finally treated to the sort of high-spirited farce for which Wodehouse is so justly celebrated. it's just a drag that it takes so long.
which brings us to the happy conclusion i wrote this review specifically to highlight. you can safely disregard MIKE (the book), because another title, MIKE & PSMITH, offers said latter half in it's own right. that one cuts away the needless, Psmith-less preamble and gets down to the nitty-gritty. it's a rare case of a lily being un-gilded for a change. so that's the one to go for.
i don't understand why Wodehouse even bothered to write the first half anyway. all it ever really had any potential to be was the story of a Dr. Watson's life before he finds his Sherlock. does that really sound very interesting to you?
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