About book Around The World With Auntie Mame (2003)
Rating: 4 rollicking stars of fiveOh dear, oh dear, however shall I survive? There is no more Auntie Mame-age available, nor ever shall be, since Dennis is dead these 35 years. The sequel to Auntie Mame appeared in 1958, and was published of the pieces that didn't fit the original frame of "My Most Unforgettable Character." (Remember those? Reader's Digest was such a bland magazine, but those were always fun to read.) This time the frame is Patrick trying to keep his irascible wife Pegeen from killing him for letting Mame have their son for a little vacation...of two and a half years!...by telling her of his own life with Mame. Highly sanitized, of course!This 2003 edition even restores a snarky little satire on Soviet collectivism that was excised from the original book..."Auntie Mame and Mother Russia"...that made me laugh out loud. Well, that's not such a big deal, really, since the entire book made me laugh out loud several dozen times.How I appreciate Broadway Books (once a unit of Doubleday, now part of Random House's Crown Publishing Group) for rescuing these hilarious romps from final obscurity. And, I failed to mention in my review of Auntie Mame, the cover and title-page art is just *perfect*! Edwin Fotheringham, the artist, even has a perfect Mame-ish name.In Auntie Mame, Patrick is whisked off at the end of his "education" at St. Boniface Academy for a graduation trip to Europe with Mame. The misadventures of Mame in Venice alone ("Horsefeathers" by itself has the power to make me fall about laughing, you'll see why when you read the book) would make this book worth reading...but Lady Gravell-Pitt! Schloss Stinkenbach! Sari Mont d'Or and Mrs. Cantwell doing the demolition derby dance in their little Lebanese retreat, whence Mame retires after a camel-riding incident that...well, never mind, that would be telling instead of reading, and you should read the book.Really. Honest. You *should* read the book. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Primo libro che ho acquistato per il Kindle, Around the World With Auntie Mame è il seguito del fortunatissimo Auntie Mame. Patrick è ormai cresciuto, e cerca di consolare la moglie Pegeen, preoccupata per la lontananza del figlioletto decenne, sparito due anni e mezzo prima insieme a Zia Mame per un giro all'estero e ora da mesi disperso a tutti gli effetti.E' così che Patrick racconta alla moglie una versione edulcorata del suo viaggio insieme a Zia Mame, molti anni prima, mentre noi lettori riceviamo la versione integrale. Zia Mame è decisamente una figura sopra le righe, ed è incredibile l'equilibrio tra il suo personaggio e quello del ben più equilibrato Patrick. I due però si danno benissimo il cambio, per esempio nel penultimo capitolo di questo romanzo, quando Patrick si prende una scuffia terribile per una giovane inglese timorata di Dio...Una serie di vignette molto molto divertenti, da Parigi a Venezia all'Austria alla Russia (capitolo reintegrato nelle edizioni moderne, dato che a quanto pare in quella originale era stato tagliato) che ci riconciliano come sempre con una Zia Mame estremamente eccentrica e spesso fuorviata, ma sempre di buon cuore e priva di veri pregiudizi.Adatto a una lettura moderata, con le dovute pause, altrimenti stufa. Preso a giuste dosi, semplicemente perfetto! E fa venire voglia di riprendere in mano il primo volume...
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Such a witty and sparkling prose!A greatly enjoyable and captivating reading! Auntie Mame is such a brilliant and sophisticated Lady and such a sweet and loving aunt (but nothing conventional ...) that nobody will resist her! Set in the '30s and '40s and '50s, it hasn't lost at all its sparkling humour.Mame representes a counterculture that was almost non-existent at the time the book was written. She's anti-establishment, anti-bourgeois, anti-racist, anti-bad taste, and anti-pretension...She's also pro-youth, pro-sex, pro-tolerance, pro-nudity, and pro-drugs (though her drug of choice's gin lol).There's a prequeL left to enjoy. I know now that I'll hardly ever be parted from Auntie Mame. She won't let me forget her.
—Manuel Antão
I love these books and could never say a bad word about them! The second book focuses on Patrick and Mame's travel adventures all over the world. Unlike the first book you see a much shorter period of time, right before WWII and also before Patrick is supposed to begin college. Of course nothing ever goes as planned and Mame and Patrick always manage to get themselves into the craziest of situations. Nevertheless Auntie Mame always escapes with grace and style. I wished this book would never end and that they would visit every country. The book was almost like a comical version of a travel guide. I especially enjoyed the chapter on their visit to Austria and how almost half the words were in German!
—Taylor
The Auntie Mame movie always seemed to be on when I was at my grandmother's house. She was the only one in our family to have cable and she always seemed to have a hundred or more channels. She was also very liberal with what she let me watch. So there was always at least one playing Auntie Mame and another one showing Monty Python's Flying Circus and one more showing Pink Floyd's The Wall. And if it was late at night, usually one channel somewhere was showing 2001. I've seen all of them more times than I can count thanks to Grandma's cable.As an adult I decided to Patrick Dennis's books. The first Auntie Mame covers his time with her in New York but it hints at some of their world wind tours together. Around the World with Auntie Mame fills in the blanks by showing what happened to Patrick and Mame on their world tour.Each chapter is one stop on the itinerary. They get into the usual trouble and Patrick has his eyes open to all sorts of things for better and worse. It was a fun way to armchair travel. It had the same spunk and humor that I remember from the film but didn't see somehow in the first novel.
—Sarah Sammis
