Rating: 5/5
I really loved this book. It was written in a very similar style to Three Men in a Boat, which I also gave five stars, but Wodehouse’s novel was—perhaps—even funnier than Jerome’s. The main character, Bertram Wooster, is always getting himself into scrapes (slight understatement). This book relates some particularly amusing sticky predicaments, including characters such as Wooster’s loony valet Brinkley (who has the peculiar habit of chasing people up and down the stairs with carving-knives, or, if he can’t get within a close enough vicinity of the poor victim to do that, simply throwing potatoes at them from the window), Pauline Stoker (who, to me, was a bit annoying, though I’m not sure if she was supposed to be), Sir Roderick Glossop (prone to switching personalities at the most inconvenient times), and, of course, Jeeves, who I actually find exceedingly annoying when I doubt I was supposed to. Either way, I liked the book very much.