May be the usual PG Wodehouse type ones but still hilarious with twists and turns . Predictable but still you want to read . Fabulous language and to put it mildly, exaggerations of events and character with a what you call similies or metaphors drawan from the animal world.
Happens in France in a Chateau, people crawling over one another to lay siege to the "safe" for different reasons.
Wives of one of the rich americans wanting him to become US amabassdaor of France and trying to influence a US senator.
The hero ( or you can call the main character) , a football player and fun loving guy, engaged to one of the brainy types, later in trying to help the daughter of the senator realises that they are more suited to each other and end up getting engaged.
Terrific language and racy read.As one of the book reviewers ( Stephen Fry , I think) mentions, you get in to a fictional world where things are completey hilarious, nothing wrong or bad happens. So what, it keeps people happy , extremely happy. PG Wodehouse creates a world for people to revel and be happy. So do a lot of other novelists do but they make a pretense of high gravity and seriousness. PG Wodehouse does not get in to any such territory. He writes fiction and makes no pretense about it
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Money for nothing- PG Wodehouse
Usual PG Wodehouse , humorous, excellent language, exaggerations, attempted theft by an apparent millionaire who is nothing but a smooth conman from USA and his lady accomplice who is the brain behind the enterprise .The attempted theft is as usual of an English heirloom .
The usual nephew whose property is kept under trust by the uncle who is the title holder . The nephews ( two of them) , one of whom is in love with the neighbour's daughter. The falling off between the uncle and the girl's father and renewal of their freidn ship , forced by the nephew. The usual twists and turns.
Good ( good by PGW standards is great by normal standards ) but not in the same class as a Jeeves or a Psmith or an Emsworth.
The usual nephew whose property is kept under trust by the uncle who is the title holder . The nephews ( two of them) , one of whom is in love with the neighbour's daughter. The falling off between the uncle and the girl's father and renewal of their freidn ship , forced by the nephew. The usual twists and turns.
Good ( good by PGW standards is great by normal standards ) but not in the same class as a Jeeves or a Psmith or an Emsworth.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
Interesting book. Traces how bond trading from the days when it was considered a staid profession to beconing a glamorous and in a way a manly profession. How pampered the bond traders get.
The internal politicking, the show of strengths and the moves have all been traced.
The author was in Salomon brothers in the early part of his career. He starts off as to how coveted the positions in Investment banking companies had become and how he managed to get in to sales and how he becomes an ace salesman.
Author talks of the lack of ethical standards. He brings out how tradres caught with some lousy bonds take the help of salesmen to palm off on gullible inestors.
Good book. Not a very tough read as is the case with Taleb's but may require a revisit to capture the points in toto.
The internal politicking, the show of strengths and the moves have all been traced.
The author was in Salomon brothers in the early part of his career. He starts off as to how coveted the positions in Investment banking companies had become and how he managed to get in to sales and how he becomes an ace salesman.
Author talks of the lack of ethical standards. He brings out how tradres caught with some lousy bonds take the help of salesmen to palm off on gullible inestors.
Good book. Not a very tough read as is the case with Taleb's but may require a revisit to capture the points in toto.
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