I just keep picturing Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry...
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As a huge fan of the PBS series involving Jeeves and Wooster, I think some of the critics are taking the Wodehouse stories a little too seriously.

Yes, the Reggie Pepper portion of the book was inferior and could be deleted as far as I'm concerned, but reading the Jeeves/Wooster text was a delightful experience. Aside from the situational comedy, I thoroughly enjoyed the language, upmarket swearing, crazy names/nicknames and found more than a few instances of chortle-inducing verbiage.

Dated and downright silly at times...certainly, but how can anyone dislike "0ne of the most pronounced fatheads that ever pulled on a set of gent's underwear" or someone being "knee-deep in bouillon" or "rocked like a jelly in a high wind." Throw in some ridiculous antics and brainless assertions and you can cheer yourself right up on a winter's eve.
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...or a vampiric unicorn.

I adore Ahnastasia Feodor. I officially want to demand someone's head on a platter just to be more like her. Ahna gets to tell the story, and I love her perspective on things we take for granted like, say, cats.

Even better? The treatment Casper Sterling gets in this novel. I liked his character in Wicked as They Come, but Dawson skillfully drew him as a worthy man but not Leticia's man. Then in the Peculiar Pets of Miss Pleasance, he emerged as even more sympathetic, but still not the right man for the heroine. Finally. Finally, Casper meets his match in the ice princess from Freesia. His transformation from indolent wastrel to honest-to-goodness alpha male with a purpose is stunning.

I am in awe of all that Dawson has going on in this novel. Both main characters--Ahna and Casper--grow and develop in surprising and delightful ways. Even Keen, the third biggest player in this novel, strikes the perfect balance as a supporting character. I'm hoping to read more about her in the future. There are tons of inside jokes and references back to Almanica--or, as we like to call it, modern day America. Best of all, The Blud World is still an exciting blend of steampunk, magic, and paranormal elements.

Adventure, romance, humor--Wicked as She Wants has them all in spades.
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I am absolutley in love with "Castle" and I would watch anything having to do with Castle or Nathan Fillion -- what a hunk -- my latest fantasy!!!  I will watch Nathan Fillion in anything except the sci-fi genre.  I would like to see he and Beckett kiss really passionately -- what is up with that?
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Simply put, Gregory House, M.D. and the Master of Laketown from the Hobbit movies were perhaps the funniest comedy twosome ever to hit the small screen.

Whaaa--?

Okay, not those characters, specifically, but the people who played them: Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. Following a 23-episode run reinterpreting the famed P.G. Wodehouse novels (with Fry playing the long-suffering butler Jeeves and Laurie the addle-pated gentleman Bertie Wooster, respectively), the duo took their inimitable chemistry to an entirely new level in the BBC series A Bit of Fry & Laurie.

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This is yet more proof as to why the British are so bloody entertaining:  what other race could produce such civilized misbehaviour as Stephen Fry's?  His candor and wry self-examination in these lolloping, no-punches-pulled  pages boggle the mind.  And they touch the heart, too.  Fry is a master at  presenting the misadventures one falls into when you're a big soul cooped  up in a small world.  There's plenty of shock value in this tale of  boarding schools, petty thefts, a rotten mole, and inappropriately used  lavatories, but then again, if coming of age wasn't a shock to you, you  haven't done it properly.  Carry on, Fry.
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Those crazy Futurama guys do it again.  Don't know how they come up with this stuff.  All hail the hypno toad!
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Although the episodes seem to be awfully similar, its the big hollywood names actresses and actors who appeared on the show that keeps me watching. i'm still watching these episodes having finished season one. i am a big fan of Gavin Mcleod, he is still going strong at 84! they just had a LOVEBOAT reunion of the cast members!
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FUTURES AND  FROSTING!!!!  I laughed so hard I snorted and almost peed myself!!!  This is the BEST sequel I have ever read!!!!  I think the word vagina was used even more in this one, if that is even possible!!!  Claire and Carter are as hilarious as ever, and once again Gavin steals the show!!!!  I want a kid like Gavin!!!!  I think the thing that I like about these characters, is that we all know someone exactly like all of them!!! (or in my case, we ARE exactly like one of them)

One of my favorite parts, that made me laugh because this has happened to almost all of us:

"I have a dream.
And in this dream I'm under the covers in bed, just a few scant inches away from Carter's body.  I stare at his prone form lying next to me, the greenish-blue glow from the alarm clock on the bedside table providing just enough illumination for me to see the shallow rise and fall of his chest.  The sheet is draped low over his hips as he sleeps peacefully with one arm flung over his eyes and the other resting on his taut, naked stomach.  I slide my body ever so slowly across the bed, careful not to disturb him, until I'm so close I can feel the heat from his skin warming me from head to toe.  I pull my arms out from under the sheet and my hands reach out towards him.  I connect with his smooth, muscular chest, slide my fingers up his body, and...choke the ever living shit out of him."

Come on girls...y'all know that you have had this dream at least once!!!
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I recently purchased this set as a fan of Fry and Laurie as well as Wodehouse and could not be more delighted. The acting and dialog are crisp and subtly hilarious. Transcendence occurred once my daughters, ages 10 and 4, became fans as well due to the fact that they cannot describe exactly why they like the show but want to watch episode after episode. This and every other intelligent show released in the UK make television here in the States look like.....well, "American Idol" and "Jersey Shore."
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I'm so glad Amazon Prime has this fantastic series. I previously watched in on Netflix DVD but now I can bing watch while on the elliptical machine. Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry make a hilarious pair as Jeeves and Wooster.
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It's 1939. The Nazis have supermen, the British have demons, and one perfectly ordinary man is caught in the middle.

Oh, it's ever so much more complex than that, bucko.  The aforementioned supermen are the results of horrible torturous experiments on post-WW1 orphan children in the now-famous grotesque Nazi fashion.  These people are really messed up psychologically by the treatment (as one might imagine) and then by becoming supermen, and then by losing their supermen status, and then by...I may be getting a bit ahead of myself, here.  Suffice it to say that the British, upon learning that they were dealing with frankly impossible beings, turned to other impossible beings for help.

Later, of course, they wished they hadn't.

Tregillis here is a fine writer, showing the thinking processes of the most damaged, heroic, bitter, angry and insane persons; each in turn, and each with credibility.  And the pacing sucked me right into it.  As I have said before, I don't really care for horror very much, but this audiobook dragged me right into it.  I found myself still listening after my commute, something I rarely do with audiobooks.  I feel a little silly sitting in the car in front of my house for an extra twenty minutes each day.

Anyway, this Triptych is three books, and I have only gotten through Bitter Seeds and The Coldest War so far.  The third, Necessary Evil, has yet to come out, but I shiver in antici...pation. Surely it will have repurposed Nazi technology, monsters from beyond space and time, plucky Englishmen and Englishwomen, righteous fury, and hopefully a happy ending; it looks pretty damn grim two-thirds of the way through the triptych.

On the other hand, I don't think there will be any more barbecued pyromaniac necrophiliacs.  So there's that.
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I found this book imaginative and deliciously creepy. If I start having repetitive dreams because of it, Lawrence Block will be at the top of my call list.
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The title for my review comes from one of the Roaring 20s songs, "Nagasaki," that Wooster is so fond of.  You'll hear other songs from the multitalented Hugh Laurie, sometimes joined by friend and colleague Stephen Fry, as they play, respectively, the bumbling Bertie Wooster and his brilliant, patient valet Reginald Jeeves.

Nobody needs help getting through life more than Bertie!  He's been raised by overbearing aunts, he's got a goofy cousin and many foolish friends, he doesn't get along well with kids or dogs, and he can't keep house to save his life.  He has money but no sense.  Along comes Jeeves to rescue him from himself and many other tangles he gets himself into.

The third and fourth seasons' NYC-based stories tend to be weaker, overall, than most of the others, with too much farce and slapstick and not enough wordplay, but every episode is worth watching.  You never know what will happen next.  This series has made me curious to see the two leads' earlier work together, A Bit of Fry and Laurie.  You will, of course, also recognize Laurie as House, MD, the hit show on FOX; and Fry is still busily acting as well, even showing up recently on another FOX show, Bones.  I hope someone at the studio can figure out how to get House on Bones with Fry, or Fry on the set of House as a patient or fellow doctor.
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I happened to pick up this book in a secondhand shop and fell in love with Stephen Fry. The main character of this novel is a saucy, insufferable undergrad that made me feel all types of ways. So worth the read. Fry has a special sardonic, witty as hell style that makes me want to buy this book all over and gift it to my most cherished friends.
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This is a feast for the mind as well as the eyes. Great cast and wonderful writing. Hugh Laurie is top notch as are all of the cast members. The talent is universal from the concept and writing to the execution of the plot and side plots as well as the acting. I have purchased the DVDs for the first two seasons and do not miss a Tuesday night's episode.
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This was intermittently stopped for silly things like work, bathing and other such bothers that tend to distract a person from what they truly wish to be doing.
I am thoroughly convinced that Douglas Adams whispers in Mr Stanek's ear constantly.  This has made him quite pleasantly insane.  The scary thing, is that he's also extremely clever and vivid and I may also be insane now.  Luckily, as I said, it's pleasant and I'm enjoying myself immensely.  I cannot wait to see what happens next!
I've told my two friends; now it's your turn.
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Any fan of Spinal Tap, The Folksmen, or honestly Christopher Guest and all of his work, needs to get this DVD 
My husband and I were able to catch their show live so I am tickled pink to have the DVD to remember everything :D