Very funny! One of Wodehouse's better stand-alone books.

July 2018 reread: no change to my opinion ( )

Good old Wodehouse. This was a fun one, with lots of great wordplay, and hilarious characters. I lost track of how many times I stopped to read sections out loud to my husband. Wodehouse's talent for elaborate exaggeration is one of the things I love most about his writing. Instead of simply stating that George Finch's future mother-in-law was giving him dirty looks at the dinner table, Wodehouse put it this way:

It was the kind of look which Sisera might have surprised in the eye of Jael the wife of Heber, had he chanced to catch it immediately before she began operations with the spike.

The book is loaded with gems. I think it was originally a musical, and it was fun to imagine the characters bursting into song at different parts.
Not quite as funny as Jeeves and Wooster or Lord Emsworth, but Wodehouse fans won't be sorry they picked it up. ( )

Different setting but formulaic as usual. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Here it does, making it quite a pleasurable read. ( )

Another funny and chaotic comedy by P. G. Wodehouse. ( )

Very funny! One of Wodehouse's better stand-alone books.

July 2018 reread: no change to my opinion above. ( )