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kitsuneheart's review
3.0
A Reginald collection mainly in name, and certainly not as good as the first. There's really only one Reginald story, here, and it's not all that good.
Saki takes deeper digs at women in the collection, especially in "The Sex That Doesn't Shop," in which he suggests women stand idly by while things in the house run out, among other accusations, and in "A Young Turkish Catastrophe," where he gives women the vote, but has them all follow the whims of their husbands, and particularly the whims of one man with 100 wives and political aspirations.
I had considered having my book club read Reginald and RIR, but. given the lower quality of this book and its issues, I think I'll be skipping that suggestion.
This book is in the public domain. I listened to the free audio production from Librivox.
Saki takes deeper digs at women in the collection, especially in "The Sex That Doesn't Shop," in which he suggests women stand idly by while things in the house run out, among other accusations, and in "A Young Turkish Catastrophe," where he gives women the vote, but has them all follow the whims of their husbands, and particularly the whims of one man with 100 wives and political aspirations.
I had considered having my book club read Reginald and RIR, but. given the lower quality of this book and its issues, I think I'll be skipping that suggestion.
This book is in the public domain. I listened to the free audio production from Librivox.
bookpossum's review
4.0
More great fun with Saki. I loved this, from "Cross Currents", about a woman called Vanessa Pennington who had a husband "who was poor, with few extenuating circumstances ...":
"She had a strong natural bias towards respectability, though she would have preferred to have been respectable in smarter surroundings, where her example would have done more good. To be beyond reproach was one thing, but it would have been nicer to have been nearer to the Park."
Bliss!
"She had a strong natural bias towards respectability, though she would have preferred to have been respectable in smarter surroundings, where her example would have done more good. To be beyond reproach was one thing, but it would have been nicer to have been nearer to the Park."
Bliss!
slferg's review
4.0
Entertaining short stories - a few of which will give you a surprise at the twist in the end!
magus_eden's review
3.0
Having been misled by this collection's title to believe it would be entirely devoted to the delightfully reprehensible Reginald, I was disappointed to discover that only the title story concerns him. While several of the stories in this collection have not aged well (particularly "The Sex That Doesn't Shop" and "A Young Turkish Catastrophe"), many others are very amusing, especially "Gabriel-Ernest," "The Soul of Laploshka," and "The Mouse."
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