Pg Wodehouse Audio Book

Review: Thank You, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse « Jenny's Books

Sigh. What does one even say I’ve noticed that people sometimes almost seem to get mad at me for minding those things in older books, but I can’t help the fact that I’m a person from 2010 reading it today and realising just how awful it is. I can’t help how I feel! My first Wodehouse wasn’t a hit either, but I’m hoping that others will be better.

Exactly! And it is awful, and it’s clear he knows that the n-word is vulgar because he has Bertie use it but not Jeeves. Jeeves says “Negro” – which of course nowadays we don’t say, but that’s an issue of its having fallen out of style. The business with the blackface is a lazy kind of humor, I think, even if it weren’t offensive. So I feel justified in being offended.

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