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Prem Rao Heywood Hill's Wodehouse Quotes Contest

Remember I posted about the Wodehouse quotes contest at the Plum Idol event organised at Heywood Hill? More than 200 favourite quotes from Wodehouse were posted at their web site. The quote that won with the most votes was: “As for Gussie Fink-Nottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming him on sight.” Continue

Added by Prem Rao on December 3, 2009 at 12:06am — No Comments

Prem Rao NaNoWriMo

Thrilled that I completed National Novel Writing Month. Handed in 50127 words written from November 1 on November 24. It was a delightful experience. Enjoyed sharing and learning from others in the different forums. The die hard fan of Wodehouse that I am, I had to bring him in somewhere. So, as is obvious, I made one of the characters in my novel a fan too! Continue

Added by Prem Rao on November 27, 2009 at 8:48am — No Comments

Prem Rao Quotes from The Master

Stressed out? The best remedy- dip into Plum's works. Here's a link to some quotes which should bring a smile to your lips. I remember reading an article when the guy says one of his girl friends was going through a bad patch and wanted to see a shrink. In his words, he pointed her to P G Wodehouse instead and this cured her- saving them a lot of money in the bargain! Continue

Added by Prem Rao on November 27, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Prem Rao NaNoWriMo

The long silence is attributable to The National Novel Writing Month in which I am participating. We are to dash off 50,000 words between November 1 and November 30. I am past 22,000 as on November 10. Sadly my novel is not about Plum or Plum's characters. My novel is about an Indian Army officer and spans three decades after the 1971 War.It comes under the genre of historical fiction! Continue

Added by Prem Rao on November 10, 2009 at 9:32am — No Comments

Prem Rao You Must Take Part

Thanks to Barbara Combs for pointing this out to me. Heywood Hill has a contest called Plum Idol going in which you vote for your favourite quotation from Wodehouse amongst some on offer. The contest closes on November 16 - so hurry! Let em know what you thought of the idea- if not your favourite quotation:) Continue

Added by Prem Rao on October 31, 2009 at 5:16pm — No Comments

Prem Rao Do youngsters read Wodehouse these days?

Many of us started reading Plum when we were fairly young. I wonder do youngsters read Plum these days? Do they read much of him or not at all? I realize that his stories are dated in terms of a very different era but the language was captivating. His style is inimitable. Any thoughts? Continue

Added by Prem Rao on October 21, 2009 at 1:52pm — No Comments

Prem Rao Plum's First Review in The Times

Here is Plum's first review in The Times. This was dug out from the archives for 1921 "I think this the funniest story I have ever written" wrote Wodehouse about "Three Men and A Maid". We know he has written many more funnier stories and given us immense reading pleasure over the decades. Continue

Added by Prem Rao on October 17, 2009 at 7:23am — No Comments

Prem Rao Happy Birthday, Plum!

Eggs, Beans & Crumpets. Lend me your ears. Let's wish The Master a Happy Birthday on his 128th birth anniversary. Plum as you know was born on October 15, 1881. What ho! What ho!! What ho!!! Continue

Added by Prem Rao on October 15, 2009 at 12:35pm — No Comments

Shiv Nair Who Remembers Guy Bolton?

Some weeks ago I came across a movie called Picadilly Jim on one of the TV movie channels. I jumped at the chance of actually seeing a Wodehosue movie, but to my dismay it was an updated version of the story, with all the fun and charm removed to make place for what I guess should be called "modern humour." I guess I am getting old. But to compensate, one late night a few days ago I came across a movie called Rosalie on the TCM channel. Something sounded familiar and I turned it on just as it wa… Continue

Added by Shiv Nair on October 14, 2009 at 3:34pm — No Comments

Prem Rao A Review on Wodehouse

Charles Moore had this review on Plum in The Telegraph. Evelyn Waugh called him " the head of my profession" and Charles Moore says he is the "patron saint" of writers. Well said! Continue

Added by Prem Rao on October 13, 2009 at 8:58am — No Comments

Prem Rao Plum on Twitter

Delighted to see P G Wodehouse on Twitter. I wish he/she were more active:) Continue

Added by Prem Rao on October 6, 2009 at 9:55pm — 4 Comments

Prem Rao Plum Pie

Remember I wrote a few days ago about the exhibition called " Plum Pie" at Heywood Hill, the bookshop in Curzon Street? I thank PGW Net for this link to the audio slideshow on the event. PGW Net, as I am sure you will know as Plum fans, is the ma… Continue

Added by Prem Rao on September 27, 2009 at 1:40pm — No Comments

Prem Rao Memorable Descriptions

Here's a memorable description of the scene in Twing Village Hall from " The Metropolitan Touch" featuring Bingo Little:- " There was no doubt about it, it caught the eye. It was about seven foot long and most of the lettering in about as bright red ink as I ever struck. This is how it ran: TWING VILLAGE HALL Friday, December 23rd RICHARD LITTLE presents A New and Original Revue entitled WHAT HO, TWING! Book by RICHARD LITTLE Lyrics by RICHARD LITTLE Music by RICHARD LITTLE with the Full Twin… Continue

Added by Prem Rao on September 23, 2009 at 1:02pm — No Comments

Prem Rao Wodehouse Exhibition

The Daily Mail tells us about an exhibition on Wodehouse at Heywood Hill bookshop at Curzon Street. It says visitors will be given slugs of high octane Martinis. Read more about the exhibition which is from Sept 21 to Oct 16 at the website of Heywood Hill Ltd. By the way, you would know which establish… Continue

Added by Prem Rao on September 19, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Prem Rao All About Names

Read this interesting article in the Deccan Herald by M J Akbar. I am sure you will like it too. Some part of the fascination for Plum was the amazing names he came up with-across the social spectrum. Continue

Added by Prem Rao on September 11, 2009 at 9:07pm — No Comments

Prem Rao Wodehouse Community in Amazon

No, not in the Amazon River but in Amazon.com, there seems to be a P G Wodehouse community. I chanced upon this when surfing the net. Have any of you taken part in this community? Is it worth joining? Continue

Added by Prem Rao on September 7, 2009 at 12:42pm — No Comments

Ganesh K Best PGW character

In the early days, I loved Lord Ickenham (starting with Cocktail time), then came Psmith in the late school days. I liked his elan. Then came Ukridge - perenially hard up, always with new and innovative ideas for making money. I searched for and found one of his earliest ones - Love among Chicken (saw some references to it somewhere). However, was a little disappointed. Had to remind myself that this was early PGW. However, his early school stories (Mike and Smith, Mike at Wrykin etc) are still… Continue

Added by Ganesh K on September 7, 2009 at 12:24pm — 1 Comment

Prem Rao Starting Young

When did you read your first Wodehouse? It seems like yesterday but the first book by the Master that I read was in 1964. I was a little over 12 and the book was " A Damsel In Distress" which continues to be one of my all time favourites. It was P K Krishnan Thampy simply called "Sam" who loaned me that book when I was in the Lawrence School at Lovedale. Thanks, Sam- wherever you are. This memory came alive when I read… Continue

Added by Prem Rao on September 5, 2009 at 1:36pm — 1 Comment

Prem Rao Daily Routines- P. G.Wodehouse

What was The Master's typical day like? I chanced upon this article called " Daily Routines" which gives us a glimpse into Wodehouse's daily routine towards the end of his life. What made him such an amazingly prolific writer was the discipline he had of simply having to write every single day! Continue

Added by Prem Rao on August 12, 2009 at 11:56pm — No Comments

Jagadish Shenoy Wodehouse Holds Sway

The greatness of PGW is that most of modern humour writers, without any concious effort, imitate the great master. But then Plum is a gift to mankind that appears but once in a millenium. PGW's writngs have the ability to seep into the reader's psyche and change the way the reader talks, thinks, behaves and, well, writes. When I first started a bit of writing, PGW was stranger to me. And once I got hooked on to his brand of humour, he crept into my DNA and, before I knew what was happening, he m… Continue

Added by Jagadish Shenoy on August 11, 2009 at 8:51am — No Comments

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