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    Laughing Gas
    Laughing Gas
    Laughing Gas
    Audiobook7 hours

    Laughing Gas

    Written by P. G. Wodehouse

    Narrated by Simon Prebble

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    About this audiobook

    This stylish, charming, and delightfully witty comedy showcases all the reasons why P.G. Wodehouse is hailed as one of the most sharp-witted writers of the 20th century. It begins when a proper British earl falls asleep in a dentist's chair-and wakes up in the body of America's favorite child star.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateNov 18, 2011
    ISBN9781461812982
    Laughing Gas
    Author

    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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    • 5/5
      Should be rated higher! A great narrator and a fun story.
    • 3/5
      Diverting, kind of fun, but a little long and the writing didn’t seem as inventive as in the two Jeeves books I’ve read. Funny to hear description of Hollywood in the 20s.

      Listened to the audiobook version.
    • 5/5
      Great P.G. Wodehouse chaotic fun and narration by Simon Prebble.
    • 5/5
      Expertly voiced by a Drone whose voice escapes me now.
    • 5/5
      This stand-alone Wodehouse book is right up there with his best! Simon Prebble does a decent narration but I wish that I had been able to get the Jonathan Cecil narration...
    • 4/5
      First Wodehouse yarn I’ve encountered that slips the bounds of reality. In short, the male narrator unwillingly swaps bodies with a child actor, which leads to chaos and confusion.Very funny – one of my favourite Wodehouse novels.
    • 3/5
      Wodehouse is such a legend, I didn't quite know what to expect, since this is the first of his books I've picked up. I wouldn't call it great literature, but it is fun and light reading, a nice change from when everything has been a bit heavy. The plot is sort of a Freaky-Friday type body exchange (long before Freaky Friday, of course) when an English earl changes places with a precocious Hollywood child star. The child star delights in the new body, trained as a boxer, because he can run around "poking in the snoot" everyone who has mistreated him. It's not so delightful for the earl, who is stuck eating prunes for breakfast every morning in a body too small and weak to do anything but be dependent. A jolly ride, with some very good one-liners.
    • 4/5
      This is a sparkling little comedy from a master of the art. There's a humorous bumbling chap who finds himself inheriting the Earldom and all the family responsibilities that come with it - including rescuing his cousin Eggy from an unsuitable female he's found in Hollywood. A man less likely to be capable of rescuing anyone has probably never been written, but Reggie duly sets off - only to become smitten with a lady actress. *swoon*. By a madly convoluted means he finds himself in the body of a child star who ears knickerbockers, has blonde curly hair and in the care of an old harridan - the soul of the child star is now inhabiting his well pressed body. And the body swop story continues with varying degrees of peril and hilarity engendered when you land in the middle of someone's life - with no idea how they got there, or what might be creeping around the corner. The characters are all fairly stock types, there's not great character development here, but it is a great fun little read. Its rolls along at a reasonable rate and you find yourself wondering how this is ever going to play out - and of course it does all work out for the best in the end, but getting there is well worth the ride.
    • 5/5
      A British Earl and a child actor in 1920s Hollywood switch bodies accidently while under the influence of laughing gas at the dentist. The Earl, Reggie, spends the rest of the book trying to get back into his own body and evading the problems of being a badly behaved child actor.One funny part, of many, is when Reggie is simultaneously attacked by three people that want revenge on Joey Cooley, the child actor. The story and plot are much different from Wodehouse's usual, but with the same humorous results.
    • 4/5
      Using a plot device similar to that in F. Anstey's Vice Versa, Reggie, 3rd Earl of Havershot, our hero, swops bodies with a curly headed child film star, Joey Cooley, The Idol of American Motherhood, and learns first hand of the trials of stardom. Reggie, having the common complaint of Wodehouse men, has fallen in love at first sight with April June, a blonde bombshell, who came to remind me of Lina Lamont (from Singing in the Rain). To add to the complications his former fiance Ann Bannister, who gave him the push after he inadvertently burned the back of her neck with his cigar, is currently the nursemaid to young Joey. We have a Wodehouse aunt-substitute in the awful Beulah Brinkmeyer, a permanently sozzled cousin, Eggy and even a butler, Chaffinch, although he is not quite what he seems.Despite the unusual, nay, impossible, premise of body-swopping, this book works rather well. The characterisations are good and there are plenty of laughs, and, of course, everything turns out all right in the end. Very much based on PGW's Hollywood experiences we learn much about the attitudes of stars and movie makers as well as the many would-be character actors and script writers hanging around on the edges.Not 5-star, but certainly worth 4.