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Carregando... Laughing Gas (original: 1936; edição: 2012)de P. G. Wodehouse (Autor), Jonathan Cecil (Narrador), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)
Informações da ObraLaughing Gas de P. G. Wodehouse (1936)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. The plot was what ultimately stood between this tale and a higher rating. I read Wodehouse primarily for the sparkling prose narration. In that sense, the book did not disappoint. And the portrait of early-30s Hollywood was also interesting. But ultimately, the story became a little too preposterous and too many of the characters unlikeable. Give me a Jeeves and Wooster tale over this, any day. ( ) En ella se cuenta la historia de Reggie, un conde inglés que va a Hollywood al rescate de un primo alcoholizado y termina en la consulta de un dentista. En un cuarto contiguo, casi secuestrado y deseoso de vengarse, se encuentra el pequeño Cooley, un niño prodigio de la industria del cine que también espera que lo atiendan. No se sabe cómo, ambos ven trocados sus cuerpos: el conde con el cuerpo del pequeño actor y en su ambiente, y el pequeño actor con el cuerpo del conde pero con la mentalidad de niño. A partir de ahí, se desencadenan toda clase de situaciones absurdas y desopilantes, hasta que, por accidente, se deshace el entuerto y todo vuelve a la normalidad. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ BOOK REVIEW: So it is just hard to go wrong with any Wodehouse book. This book is just laugh out loud funny. You’re taken on a short journey of a body switching plot. Just when you think our heroes day can’t get any worse - it goes from bad to worse. Recommend this book to anyone who enjoys terrific writing like only Wodehouse can do and is in the mood to have many good laughs. The book is suitable for all ages and is a quick read. Here’s one of my favorite bits: 'Haven't you ever heard of Sister Lora Luella Stott?' 'No. Who is she?' 'She is the woman who is leading California out of the swamp of alcohol.' 'Good God!' I could tell by Eggy's voice that he was interested. 'Is there a swamp of alcohol in these parts? What an amazing country America is. Talk about every modern convenience. Do you mean you can simply go there and lap?' The only thing wrong with this read is you will, eventually come to the last page! Heartily recommend! @KatoJustus4
Not the best Wodehouse has ever done, but that doesn't stop this from having its amusing moments. Reggie, recently become an Earl, lands in Hollywood, falls in love and, in a dentist's office, while under gas, exchanges souls with a child-star, a lad famed for badness...and, with this Thorne-Smith peg, they each do one another no little harm. There are several good chuckles and some good Wodehouse characters and incidents. Ran in This Week quite a while back. Pertence à série publicadaEstá contido em
A P.G. Wodehouse novelJoey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood. Both are under anaesthetic at the dentists when something strange happens - and their identities are swapped in the ether.Suddenly Joey can use his six-foot frame to get his own back on his Hollywood persecutors. But Reggie has to endure everything Joey had to put up with in the horrible life of a child star - including kidnap.Laughing Gas is Wodehouse's brilliantly funny take on the 'If I were you' theme - a wry look at the dangers of getting what you wish for in the movie business and beyond. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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