tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371709789662940833.post3711462899613844218..comments2023-04-05T16:22:41.667+05:30Comments on The Bootle Bum Trinket: Goodreads Review: Uncle DynamiteUrbi Chatterjeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10126592310054862869noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371709789662940833.post-63042657932543976022018-02-09T23:59:42.985+05:302018-02-09T23:59:42.985+05:30Hello! I am so glad you found my blog and enjoyed ...Hello! I am so glad you found my blog and enjoyed reading parts of it. I hope you will have time to explore more of it. I write about books but also about other very different issues. <br /><br />The names Wodehouse came up with are positively hilarious and perfectly fitting his characters. As for the TV series with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, no one can convince me that they were not sent to this earth for the specific purpose of acting in those roles. It was one of those rare occasions when the silver screen did not thoroughly massacre a good piece of literature.Urbi Chatterjeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10126592310054862869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371709789662940833.post-27317495794157501002018-01-20T20:50:22.873+05:302018-01-20T20:50:22.873+05:30I came upon your blog because I was looking for a ...I came upon your blog because I was looking for a name for my auxiliary, bare-bones cellphone. Being a longtime Durrell fan (I started reading Gerry's books when I was nine or ten years old. I read Larry's 'Alexandria Quartet' in my mid-teens.) the name 'Bootle-Bumtrinket' sprang to mind. I punched it into Google to check the spelling and found your post from 2010 explaining the name of your blog. "How exceedingly cool!",I thought. <br /> <br />Then, because you'd amused and intrigued me, I clicked your 'Home' button, only to find that you are a Wodehouse fan as well! Wonderful! 'Plum' had an extraordinary facility for comedic plotting and for dialogue, in what was a very specific time -<br /> and for a very specific class of people.<br /><br />But I think his greatest gift was for coming up with perfect names. 'Gussie' Fink-Nottle, 'Bingo' Little, 'Tuppy' and Honoria Glossop, the Drones Club...Absolutely delicious names that so cunningly reflect that these people were a fairly harmless sort, mostly unoccupied by 'honest toil'; somewhere between upper-middle class and aristocracy, and almost completely oblivious to world beyond, save for the brilliant and thoroughly appreciated Jeeves. I read the Wooster and Jeeves novels and short stories long before the British TV series with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. And weren't they perfect for those roles?<br /><br />Anyway, I just wanted to express my admiration for the little I know of your taste in literature. Maybe I'll wander around your blog for awhile and see what else I may wax rapturous about.TiaHermanaMaggiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08370490217149423385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371709789662940833.post-86765119120660515862018-01-19T10:49:52.118+05:302018-01-19T10:49:52.118+05:30Yippee for the blogpost, Pupu.
I had a fond grin...Yippee for the blogpost, Pupu. <br /><br />I had a fond grin of remembrance upon the post and upon seeing the title. But I can't say I quite remember the exploits of Uncle Fred in this particular book. I don't think I read this one. I remember one where Unc' Fred had impersonated that pompous poof-top of a psychiatrist (was he?) Roderick Glossop. Ah - "The impeccably suave air of an English aristocrat..." - that is such a superb descriptor. I rather liked Uncle Fred. He was a favourite along with of course the inimitable Jeeves and I think, Galahad. Bertie - I could only shake my head about (much like one of his disapproving aunts) and as for Lord Emsworth - Egad! he was so woolly-headed - I thought he'd have tufts of wool coming out of his ears, leave alone off the top of his head. But maybe it's only because he felt a little too close for comfort....I could never ever go so gaga over a piggy in a pig-pen though! Jesus Almighty. <br /><br />It was a lovely surprise to find this post Pupu. Many thanks for sharing it with your readers. And I do hope and pray you don't feel blue and morose too often...I was saving my comment - now I am sending it. Not to be pesky but I do hope you put up a general mixed post too for your readers. <br /><br />Take care,<br />ShilpidiShilpihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00653245862882935909noreply@blogger.com