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Book Review of What Ho, Automata

What Ho, Automata
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This book consists of four long stories, all of which are Jeeves & Wooster pastiches.

The first two are fairly straightforward bumbling-upper-class-twit-and-wise-servant stories, and frequently they are very funny.

Then, the author decided that he wanted to segue to having Reggie be more of a 'consulting gentleman detective', and the stories switch to being somewhere between Jeeves & Wooster and Sherlock Holmes. Unfortunately, the humor largely is jettisoned, and the final story is extremely complicated.

So, I don't think I'll be reading any more of these... they're clever, but he's going in a direction I don't really enjoy.