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Hot Water

By: P. G. Wodehouse
Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
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The house party at Chateau Blissac, Brittany, features a rather odd array of guests this year.

Mr. J. Wellington Gedge is hoping for some peace and quiet while his wife takes herself off for a while. She, however, has invited numerous visitors to the chateau, to whom he will have to play reluctant host. Senator Opal and his daughter are expected, and so is the chateau's handsome owner, Vicomte de Blissac.

When a certain letter goes missing, landing the senator in the proverbial hot water, it's up to Packy Franklyn, a great pal of the vicomte's, to sort out the mess. Unfortunately this involves a little light safecracking.

©2015 Trustees of the Wodehouse Estate (P)2015 Blackstone Audio Inc.

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I Always Forget How Funny This One Is

I say “always” because Hot Water has been on my perpetual Wodehouse listening rotation since the days of cassettes and boom boxes. That rotation includes 50-some books, so there’s plenty of time to forget Senator Opal’s description of Blair Eggleston (“you pop-eyed defective”), the bird’s eye view of the Chateau de Blissac (supplied for the benefit of those readers who are not birds) or the many moods of J. Wellington Gedge when under the influence.

If you’re trying to decide between this recording or the one featuring a rather badly drawn bathtub, go for the tub. It’s the same faultless performance by Jonathan Cecil, but the menu contains the 18 chapters Wodehouse intended, not, as here, 145 random fragments.

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Splendid fun

A delightful love story combined with a madcap farce...no, really, it is perfect fun. And again Mr Cecil proves he is the best there is when it comes to voice acting and narrating Wodehouse. Whether as a nefarious safecracker from Chicago, a phony lady’s maid, a French duke, an American senator or even as the senator’s daughter, he makes it all quite believable—or as believable as farce can be. A satisfying resolution, too. What more could one want?

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hilarious tangled story

a tangled plot with tons of unexpected reverses, mistaken identies and controlling women. worth enjoying multiple times.

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New characters. Old hijinks

This Wodehouse tale has only one British aristocrat but there's a host of rich as well as some nefarious Americans whose lives intersect in a crazy tale. There are surprises right up to the last chapter. A fun listen.

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Oops

It’s a typical Wodehouse, need one say more.
I do need to comment on the description of one character chloroforming a sleeping woman, though. More than non-PC. I don’t want to advocate censorship but if that sentence were accidentally deleted no one would probably mind, not even Plum.

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Amazing

I loved it this fuck so much it was so fun and such a good time filler for when you’re in the 🚗

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Great Stuff!

An absolute delight. Fantastic reader, hilarious, convoluted story. P.G. Wodehouse at his best. I recommend it highly.

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Wodehouse is better when read.

It’s easier to keep track of the characters than when read out loud. But it is funny.

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my favorite Wodehouse yet

loved it the plot is masterful the dialog so amusing the performance excellent . I've been reading and listening to Wodehouse for decades never enjoyed one more

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Delightful

I have been a Wodehouse fan for almost 50 years. J. Cecil does an excellent job of reading and giving voices to all the characters.

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