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Done, that was fun. Masterful language, the turns of phrase remind me of Pratchett (yes, it's really the other way around).
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I finished this morning! My first time reading any Wodehouse, and like a lot of folks here I couldn't help but read it all in Hugh Laurie/Stephen Fry's voices. I'm surprised how jarring I found the handful of racist moments (particularly Bertie dropping the N-bomb out of nowhere) - it feels so ill-fitting with the cosy theme and indulgent prose. But I suppose it's hard to avoid when dealing with books from 80 years ago. Really enjoyed the book otherwise, it was as fun and funny as I expected.
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Oct 29, 2016 13:03
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Gertrude Perkins posted:I finished this morning! My first time reading any Wodehouse, and like a lot of folks here I couldn't help but read it all in Hugh Laurie/Stephen Fry's voices. I'm surprised how jarring I found the handful of racist moments (particularly Bertie dropping the N-bomb out of nowhere) - it feels so ill-fitting with the cosy theme and indulgent prose. But I suppose it's hard to avoid when dealing with books from 80 years ago. Really enjoyed the book otherwise, it was as fun and funny as I expected. There's a really unfortunate episode of the BBC series that I'm pretty sure didn't air in America because it has extended scenes of Hugh Laurie in blackface. I just tell myself that the British don't get it and especially didn't get it in the 1990s and 1920's.
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Oct 29, 2016 14:14
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The Black and White Minstrel Show was on TV for a lot longer than it should have been. Slightly off topic, but the only instance I've ever seen of Blackface being used well in the UK was one episode of Psychoville, and that was portrayed as being something a very out of touch person thinks is entertaining and is treated with the level of 'what the gently caress is this' that was appropriate. I remember them saying during an interview that they expected a lot of complaints but they didn't receive any, and they were hopeful that it was because people took it as the ridiculous relic it was rather than 'At last, some proper entertainment'
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Oct 29, 2016 14:42
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:There's a really unfortunate episode of the BBC series that I'm pretty sure didn't air in America because it has extended scenes of Hugh Laurie in blackface. A brief search came up with this old LJ post, and I'm sorry to say I remember seeing a lot of these on telly growing up.
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Oct 29, 2016 16:43
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I think they just don't believe it to be such a big deal and regard it as historical - I've seen the episode in question and IIRC Jeeves does have some derogatory comments about it.
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Oct 29, 2016 16:57
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That Jeeves / Ones from Beyond mashup on the last page did NOT get enough love. Anyway, how about nonfiction? A friend recommended to me Anthony Bourdain's first memoir, which can be vaguely tied into Thanksgiving, if you want a thematically appropriate month. E: Yes, that's it. Kitchen Confidential. \/\/\/\/ poisonpill fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Oct 31, 2016 |
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Oct 30, 2016 23:13
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poisonpill posted:That Jeeves / Ones from Beyond mashup on the last page did NOT get enough love. =) It has a lot of subtle little touches, too. Like it lists the author as "The Rt. Hon. Bertram Wooster," i.e., Bertie is a Member of Parliament -- our first clue that this is a tale of horror -- or that Jeeves appears to have invented the Heimlich Maneuver about forty years early, or the way it works in other contemporary stuff like Carnicki the Ghost Finder (who was also suggested in last months' thread as a possible October read). quote:Anyway, how about nonfiction? A friend recommended to me Anthony Bourdain's first memoir, which can be vaguely tied into Thanksgiving, if you want a thematically appropriate month. I really like this idea. Kitchen Confidential, right? Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Oct 31, 2016 |
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Oct 31, 2016 05:52
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:=) Kitchen Confidential is great and will change the way you eat at (good) restaurants forever. People with a low douchebag tolerance might not like it though. I might recommend Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as a Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany in the same vein. The author works closely with Mario Batali, among many others, and there's an interesting culinary history question binding the memoir together, as Buford attempts to figure out when we started adding an egg to pasta dough.
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