The Code of the Woosters, by P. G. Wodehouse

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Extremely disturbing book cover,
fantastic book. :P

Bertie Wooster's task was simple. All he had to do was visit an antique shop in Brompton Road and convince the owner to lower the price of an eighteenth-century silver cow-creamer. But when things go wrong, and Bertie finds out that the woman he was once accidentally engaged to is threatening to cancel her wedding to one of Bertie's old friends, our hero is determined to get them back together--and, once again, the answer lies in securing the very same cow-creamer, and also in finding a little brown notebook in which the groom wrote some very unflattering things about his future father-in-law. That's my best attempt at explaining the plot. :P A much more coherent summary can be found here. But if you really want to know more about it you should go read the book. *nodnod*

I grabbed this book off the shelf when I wanted something fairly short and entertaining to read and was seriously laughing within the first few pages. P. G. Wodehouse is a good writer, and Bertie is a hilarious narrator. Combine the two, and you have a very enjoyable book.

The plot is seemingly simple, but right when you think everything has finally been fixed, Wodehouse throws in another twist that makes you laugh, shake your head (or roll your eyes), and keep on reading until the end.

I don't normally read books that are purely supposed to be funny, because a lot of times the humor is too slapstick for my taste, and the characters annoy me more than anything else. But Wodehouse is a master. None of the characters in this book are overly annoying, I actually found the book extremely entertaining, and did I mention that Bertie is hilarious and ridiculous and endearing? And Jeeves is just awesome.

Another thing that I have to mention: there was hardly any swearing or anything like that in this book at all. Wodehouse gets major bonus points for that.

Anyway, if you like humor, the first few decades of the twentieth century, and British literature, go look up P. G. Wodehouse right now. I will definitely be grabbing more of his books off the shelf in future.

~Kellyn~

P. S. I am determined to review All Creatures Great and Small...as soon as I figure out how to write the blog post on it. Inspiration has not been my friend when it comes to that post, for some reason.