Reviews for Uneasy Money

The average rating for Uneasy Money based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-08-03 00:00:00 Tracey Mackay Uneasy Money is a standalone romantic comedy novel from P.G. Wodehouse, which can be regarded as one among his best works with his signature humor and twisted plots. Written in 1916 this is one of those self-containing titles from Wodehouse, which is not part of any of his usual series of narratives with recurring characters. By utilizing his usual charming way of narrative and his knack in creating loveable characters to the maximum, Wodehouse creates a warm romantic novel, brimming with romance and hilarious adventure. The plot revolves around William FitzWilliam Delamere Chalmers, Lord Dawlish or "Bill", a simple, decent young man with a fascination for golf and who is financially on unstable grounds. He has a heart of gold with not much care for money but his fiancée Claire, who accepted his proposal captivated by his title and thinking of him as rich, is not entirely satisfied with his state of affairs. In an unexpected twist of fate Bill inherits a million pounds from an American millionaire with whom he had a brief acquaintance during a game of golf. He also learns that the millionaire has left nothing of value to his niece and nephew. Ever being the pure hearted gentleman, Bill becomes morally uncomfortable over this and he travels to America to share half of the inheritance with the niece and nephew of the millionaire. What follows is a potpourri of comical situations, complex misunderstandings, sub-plots, budding of new romantic relationships and hilarious intertwining of paths between characters typical of Wodehouse narrations which pits Bill, Claire (who is also in America on some errands), Elizabeth Boyd (the niece) and her brother into incredibly funny plots set in the rural backdrops of Long Island. Uneasy Money is a clean romantic comedy, which is easy to read and with enough dosage of humor and romance. This is a perfect candidate for lightweight reading and Wodehouse with his pleasant and hilarious narration of a story will make you forget everything around you. In 1918 a black and white silent movie adaptation was made with the same name starring Taylor Holmes as Lord Dawlish.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-03-31 00:00:00 Gary Brines Uneasy Money is one of my least favorite P.G. Wodehouse book in the history of me reading P.G. Wodehouse books. The characters are flat. The writer's trademark humor is almost completely absent. The story is boring. This rags-to-riches, boy-meets-girl tale unnecessarily drags on at a languid pace. The premise is ridiculous, yet not ridiculous enough to be funny. Unlikely romances in which the rich guy falls for the poor girl were all the rage in the early 1900s, so I'm led to understand, and this is another one of them. More's the pity. However, it's still written with an apt hand. Again, I'm led to believe this dime-a-dozen genre of romance often had less than a nickel's worth of quality imbued within its prose. So, the best I can say for Uneasy Money is that the words are all there, in the right order with a proper beginning, middle and end. It's just, the end couldn't come fast enough for me. I did a little research, checked out his bibliography and such, and I feel confident in saying that in future I should steer clear of any pre-1920s Wodehouse. That's all right, since the man wrote steadily into the 1970s. I once saw an interview with him in which the interviewer asked how many books he'd written. He said something to the effect that he'd written a book a year all his life, and since he was 84 he guessed he'd written 84 books. It was like something out of the mouth of Bertie Wooster.