Love Among the Chickens
Written by P.G. Wodehouse
Narrated by Jonathan Cecil
3.5/5
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P.G. Wodehouse
P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) nació en Surrey. Tras trabajar un tiempo como periodista en Inglaterra, se trasladó a los Estados Unidos. Escribió numerosas obras de teatro y comedias musicales, y más de noventa novelas. Creador de personajes inolvidables -Jeeves, Bertie Wooster, su tía Agatha, Ukridge, Psmith, Lord Emsworth, los lechuguinos del Club de los Zánganos, y tantos otros, sus obras se reeditan continuamente, como corresponde a uno de los grandes humoristas del siglo.
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Reviews for Love Among the Chickens
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5With all the great reviews around, a P.G. Wodehouse book should have been a lot more fun to read.Instead, after the first few witty pages, it was tedious and predictable, flattening out into the never-endingstupidity of Ukridge's chicken farming methods, dead chickens, and an unfunny near drowning.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Garnet moves to the country with his old friend Ukridge and the new Mrs. Ukridge to start a chicken farm. Ukridge's business model appears to rest on buying everything on credit, which goes as well as you'd expect. Meanwhile, Garnet is falling in love with the girl down the road, who has a cantankerous father. I didn't know until after I'd read the book that this was Wodehouse's first novel for adults. It has so many of the typical Wodehouse qualities and yet it felt a little unpolished. Now I understand why.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5While Jerry Garnet is at a loose end, an old friend, Stanley Featherstonhaugh Ukridge talked him into a joining him in a sure-fire way to make pots of money by starting a chicken farm. All you need is a borrowed hen and the eggs, chickens and money will start rolling in. Of course, making money - or raising chickens - is never this easy and the reader is treated to all the planning malfunctions possible. To complicate matters, Garnet falls in love. This wasn't as enjoyable as other Wodehouse stories. I felt like shaking some sense into Garnet, and found Ukridge a bit annoying, but it's a short, amusing read.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I enjoyed this novel, but it wasn't as funny as the Jeeves & Wooster books or the Blandings Castle series. Jonathan Cecil did a good job narrating but a bit more differentiation in the various voices would have been appreciated.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This novel features Ukridge, who gets his own self-titled book written about him over a decade later, yet the events here are set after those featured in the "Ukridge" tome.The main character, however, is Jerry Garnet; a small-time author of fiction. He's approached by Ukridge who persuades Jerry to accompany him on his latest get rich quick scheme, which is to run their own chicken farm.As neither they nor their third partner, Mrs Ukridge, have any knowledge whatsoever about keeping chickens it soon becomes clear that this money earner may not be as easy as first thought.Along the way Jerry falls in love at first sight with a girl he spots on a train. As luck would have it, she and her uncle move into a property close to the chicken farm. Jerry's main problem with wooing the young beauty is ensuring he does nothing to set off the uncle's quick temper. Needless to say, the old man blows his top more than once, presenting Jerry with challenges to get back in his good books so as to pave the way into the niece's life again.The first third of the book is written in third person, after which it's told in first person by Jerry, except the epilogue, which is formatted like a play!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Also very funny, just like the Wooster novels.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I can only take so much Wodehouse.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very cute. I believe this was Wodehouse's first real work beyond his school pieces (which I found rather dreary at times with the constant description of sports being played). This one was away from school and was funny and sometimes outrageous and, at its core, very sweet. I'm looking forward to seeing Wodehouse's continued evolution.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The story is narrated by a struggling writer called Jeremy Garnet, who used to work with a larger-than-life and entrepreneurial character known as Ukridge. Jeremy is persuaded, against his better judgement, to go and stay with Ukridge and his unassuming wife Millie, and to assist in their new project, starting a chicken farm.It quickly transpires that neither of the Ukridges have any clue what to do with chickens. There’s another subplot involving a young woman at a nearby farm, whom Jeremy finds very attractive… and several other sidelines to the story, introducing a wide spectrum of characters.My free Gutenberg edition made an excellent Kindle book for travelling; I read some of it on a flight and, the next day on a coach. It was light enough that I didn’t need to concentrate much; it was also the kind of book I could put down at any moment and resume later. I don’t think this would make a good introduction to Wodehouse; inevitably it’s quite dated, and the style won’t appeal to everyone, but for fans of this author, I’d recommend it highly.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Loved it so much. Did not realise I was reading a first edition text, so will have to come back someday and get the second… also available in the public domain.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Stanley Ukridge is no Jeeves,
His eccentricities make others grieve.
Garnet unlike Corky,
Is dull and dorky.
Phyllis is the one he loves,
Woos her like a lonesome dove.
Creditors swarm the farms,
Rummaging chickens with their arms.
Amongst a mass of satiric bliss,
It is acceptable to give this a miss. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was my first Wodehouse and what a treat! Pure slap stick.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An excellent story featuring the eccentic Stanley Featherstonehaugh (pron. Fanshaw) Ukride, a figure with a bit of Wooster about him, and quite unlike most of the very early Wodehouse stories. Also note it's written in the first person (as the Wooster/Jeeves stopries are), again unlike most of the early stories.This book was first published in 1906 but was substantially re-written before the Herbert Jenkins edition in 1921. Would be worth comparing the two - my bet would be the original had less of Ukridge's eccentricities and more of the underlying love story.