Download The Luck of the Bodkins Audiobook

" Aboard the RMS Atlantic en route from Southampton to New York, lovers quarrels and misunderstandings abound. The affable Monty Bodkin is engaged to honest, kind-hearted Gertrude but she suspects he likes actress Lotus Blossom who is quite smitten with Ambrose Tennyson, whose trouble-making brother Reggie has just fallen head over heel for Mabel, sister-in-law of American movie mogul Ivor Llewellyn, who is desperate to avoid smuggling a necklace through Customs for his wife. As Monty says, there are "wheels within wheels" and meddlesome ship steward Albert Peasemarch isn't helping! A madcap adventure employing Wodehouse's trademark humor, tangled storylines, and delightfully quick-witted British dialogue. No one puts as much meaning into the words "oh" and "what" as Wodehouse! Highly entertaining. "

" LOVE Wodehouse, and this one made me laugh out loud. "

" Entertaining. Full of amusing situations and witty lines. Pure pleasure. "

" Not bad but equally not one of his best. Dialogue was the best aspect- characterisation a bit one dimensional "

" "I don't suppose he makes enough out of a novel to keep a midget in doughnuts for a week. Not a really healthy midget." "

" Hijinks on a transatlantic crossing. Excellent sick bed reading. "

" Usual high standard from PG. Complicated love lives and ship board shenanigans ahoy! "

" Wodehouse at his absolute best...the man never fails to brighton up ur mood, using simple situation and amazing language to represent everyday characters. "

" I'm going to go out on a limb here and rank Luck of the Bodkins as my third favorite Wodehouse novel, just below Leave it to Psmith and Code of the Woosters. It's the longest Wodehouse book I've read yet and probably has the most twists. Highly recommended. "

" Another of my favorite Wodehouse books. This was actually the first one I read that got me hooked. "Wheels within wheels..." as far as the plot goes. "

" A somewhat derivative story, similar in some ways to other better Wodehouse, but a good read nonetheless. "

" Wodehouse is incomparable. Funny, fuuny, funny! "

" I quite enjoyed this but did put it down and came back to it a few times. There are some excellent pieces but it does seem a tad overlong, still there's no faulting the writing and plenty of laugh out loud moments. "

" Not out of the top drawer of PGW but maybe the next one down. Amiable young drone Monty Bodkin sets sail on the SS Atlantic and his love life becomes bewilderingly complicated until ship steward Albert Peasemarsh comes to the rescue. "

" I like books about sea voyages. I don't know why. And I like Wodehouse, because he's funny. Everything goes wrong in the Wodehouse world, but by the end of the book, everything is right again. It's a comforting, if unrealistic, worldview. "

" Contains fretful porpentines and the Yeoman's Wedding Song. Definitely five-star. "

" Loved it. Best best style of writing, made me laugh loads :) "

" One of the best Wodehouse novels. 8 wonderful characters and the plot moves through all 8 of them like a breeze. "

" Instead of following Lord Emsworth or Bertie Wooster, Wodehouse follows the hilarious romantic adventures on board a ship "

" Like candy that is secretly good for you. "

" I want to be both Lotus Blossom and Mabel Spence. That's it. That's my review. "

" I laughed considerably and found it difficult to put down. This is standard Wodehouse reading behaviour. "

" Englishmen's oceanic "adventure" enroute to marriage and Hollywood. Overwhelmingly witty, intensely trite. "

" Marvelous Wodehouse nonsense - one of his best "