Every bit as funny and more as the original. One of the best books I’ve read and one of the best characters ever created. ( )

Minus the second-to-last chapter, this was good and oh-so-funny. The Camel ride, presentation at court, etc--hilarious! ( )

Around the World picks up where Auntie Mame leaves off: With Patrick and Pegeen saying good bye to their son Michael as he joins Auntie Mame in India for what was supposed to be 2 weeks.

Two years later, nearing Christmas, Michael hasn't returned home and the postcards and letters have stopped coming in. Patrick and Pegeen are besides themselves with worry about where in the world Michael is with Auntie Mame and the trouble they are getting into. Pegeen probes Patrick to tell her what happened on his trip around the world with Auntie Mame and thus our story begins.

I enjoyed this sequel just as much as I enjoyed the first book. When Patrick tells the reader (not his wife, as his adventures would surely send her to an early grave) about his trip around the world, he is 17 or 18. This being the trip that Auntie Mame promised him in his last weeks of school at St. Boney Face if he would just help her with a pregnant Agnes.

If the first book came off as being a bit risque for the time, this one is even more so! Which, for me, makes it that much more entertaining. Patrick is less of a dolt this time around as well. His teenage self a little more filled out. I felt a little more understanding towards his disagreements with Mame as she seems to have also let her common sense take a world trip but in the opposite direction.

Vera is back too, which is a lot of fun. I love how she flips between her Pittsburgh personality and her faux British stage personality on a whim. Mame gets a whole new cast of potential uncles for Patrick including an honorable Lord in the British court, a Spanish (I think) lothario, a Nazi, and a super creepy Uncle Beau impersonator (sort of impersonator, he looks like Beau if you're really, really drunk).

Mame is a munitions expert, a thief, and a matchmaker all rolled into one. Just another really great read from Patrick Dennis and more Mame love! ( )

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. ( )

Cashing in on the popularity of his original book, Patrick Dennis wrote thsi sequel in 1958 that covers in flashback the trip abroad he young Patrick Dennis took with his aunt after his somewhat precipitous departure from St. Boniface Academy.

Covering the pair's adventures in Paris, London, Venice, Austria, the Mideast & a somewhat irregular voyage back to the US. This book, while funny, is more forced than his first volume. Auntie Mame, while always flighty, appears rather foolish in several of the chapters.

Still it's a fun summer read. ( )