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Thank You, Jeeves, <\/em>by P. G. Wodehouse, performed by Alexander Spencer<\/p>\n Recorded Books, 1984.\u00a0 Originially published in 1934.\u00a0 6 compact discs, 6 hours.<\/p>\n I’ve decided that the ultimate audiobook for a long drive is anything by P. G. Wodehouse, read by someone like Alexander Spencer, with an exquisite English accent.\u00a0 When you’re laughing out loud, you can’t possibly fall asleep at the wheel.<\/p>\n I think of P. G. Wodehouse as the Seinfeld of 1930’s England.\u00a0 The rich young gentlemen get into elaborately entangled comic situations, which all come together for a big laugh in the end.<\/p>\n In Thank You, Jeeves, <\/em>Bertie Wooster actually accepts Jeeves’ resignation.\u00a0 Bertie is dedicating himself to playing the banjolele, and Jeeves cannot tolerate it.\u00a0 However, they both end up in Chuffnall Regis, where Bertie’s old school friend, Chuffy (Lord Chuffnall), is falling in love with Pauline Stoker, a millionaire’s daughter who was once engaged to Bertie.<\/p>\n In the mess that results, involving captivity on a yacht, sleeping in sheds, a chase with a chopper, a cottage on fire, black-faced minstrels, and the temptations of kippered herring, only Jeeves has the brain capable of sorting things out and orchestrating a happy ending for everyone.<\/p>\n While I was in the middle of listening to this book, I found myself thinking about heliotrope pajamas.\u00a0 You see, Bertie finds Pauline Stoker in his bed, wearing his heliotrope pajamas, and finds her quite fetching.\u00a0 Doesn’t the phrase “heliotrope pajamas” have a ring to it?\u00a0 (All the more so when you’ve been listening to it rather than merely reading it.\u00a0 I found myself saying the phrase over to myself.)<\/p>\n I mused, “I wonder what color\u00a0exactly are heliotrope pajamas?”\u00a0 Well, my son heard me, and looked up heliotrope on Wikipedia.\u00a0\u00a0 ( http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heliotrope_%28color%29<\/a>\u00a0)\u00a0 He showed me exactly the shade.\u00a0 (I pretty much had it right, for the record!)\u00a0 But he looked at the references to “Heliotrope in popular culture” and was surprised to find exactly the scene I had mentioned:\u00a0 “In Thank You, Jeeves, <\/em>Bertie Wooster returns home to find Pauline Stoker in his heliotrope pajamas after swimming ashore from her father’s yacht.”<\/p>\n So you see, not only can you get lots of laughs, you can also learn the full story of the legendary heliotrope pajamas of Bertie Wooster.<\/p>\n Buy from Amazon.com<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n