Old things, you've got to read this!

[storyfan.livejournal.com]

A Washington Post review of "Jeeves and the Wedding Bells," the new Jeeves and Bertie novel sanctioned by the Wodehouse estate, is firmly dissed.

Here's the good part: The reviewer says the reader can find better stuff right here on our illustrious comm!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2013/11/05/jeeves-and-the-wedding-bells-is-worse-than-bad-fanfiction/?algtrack=mixedrecfill-2&tid=btm_rex_2

Comments

[caligularib.livejournal.com]

I'll probably be tempted enough to at least start J&WB but I thought the reviewer was extremely insightful as to the need (or lack thereof) of a new book to repopularize Wodehouse, the reasons other authors start filling in the gaps in canon and why Wodehouse's formula works so brilliantly over and over and over again.

l love the part where she points out that the new author basically writes a Mary Sue, which even the youngest, most inexperienced fanfic writer is usually astute enough to stay away from.