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4.22 AVERAGE
4.22 AVERAGE
The Code of the Woosters is to never let a pal down. The Code of Wodehouse is to never let a reader down.
Tried to listen to this on CD, but just couldn't get into it at all. Maybe it was due to the accent of the reader, not sure.
This book had me roaring with laughter in places. If I had any complaints they'd be that the timing is a little off for someone raised by televisions, and the ending was not clever (like much of the rest of the book), just unpleasant.
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Just finished... The Code of the Woosters. I’m glad to have read a Jeeves book but I don’t feel I really got this. I found the characters all a bit silly and privileged. The writing is lively and it’s an easy read. Maybe I need to give Wodehouse another go at some point in the future.
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#ubercutereads #codeofthewoosters #thecodeofthewoosters #pgwodehouse #jeevesandwooster #cowcreamer #comedy #england #farce
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Content Warnings
Minor: Cursing
See, the thing is, what I mean to say, this might be one of the most amusing old tales I've been subject to in a long time. I've read Wodehouse before, though, what? But this one is probably my favorite. It give a person a bit of joy, a tickle to the old melon, what have you.
I really can't go on like that for long. It's relatively exhausting, which makes me appreciate Wodehouse's wit all the more.
Being from the Jeeves collection of stories 'The Code of the Woosters' is about the relatively affable Bertie Wooster and his inimitable manservant, Jeeves. This time around Bertie and Jeeves are off to Totleigh Towers, homestead of a one Sir Watkyn Bassett, where there's a bit of trouble between Bertie's old school chum, Gussie Fink-Nottle and Madeline Bassett. Add in a much desired silver cow creamer, the conniving Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng, curate Harold "Stinker" Pinker, would be dictator Roderick Spode, Stiffy's diabolical dog Bartholomew, and a stolen police helmet and it's plain that things can get very complicated, very fast, and very comically.
I really can't go on like that for long. It's relatively exhausting, which makes me appreciate Wodehouse's wit all the more.
Being from the Jeeves collection of stories 'The Code of the Woosters' is about the relatively affable Bertie Wooster and his inimitable manservant, Jeeves. This time around Bertie and Jeeves are off to Totleigh Towers, homestead of a one Sir Watkyn Bassett, where there's a bit of trouble between Bertie's old school chum, Gussie Fink-Nottle and Madeline Bassett. Add in a much desired silver cow creamer, the conniving Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng, curate Harold "Stinker" Pinker, would be dictator Roderick Spode, Stiffy's diabolical dog Bartholomew, and a stolen police helmet and it's plain that things can get very complicated, very fast, and very comically.
Read for my book group (actually part of an omnibus edition).
Bertie Wooster is a man about town who lives a largely carefree life, throwing parties for friends before they tie the knot, enjoying lavish dinners cooked by his aunt's sublime chef and generally having a nice time.
After one of these parties he is summoned to see his aunt who sets him a simple task to help her husband purchase a piece of silverware at a reasonable price. This is the beginning of a complex story of intrigue and silliness.
The full ins and outs of the story really matter very little. All you need to know is they concern a frivolous, rich gentleman who gets himself into a series of increasingly tortured scrapes. Caught on the horns of a dilemma he must try and escape with the help of his man, Jeeves.
The Jeeves character is probably the making of the story, wonderfully understated, yet completely pivotal at every stage of the story.
I purchased this story as part of an omnibus, and while I will definitely consume both the other stories in the book before too long, one story is enough for the time being. There was always a danger of there being a 'and with a single bound, Jack was free' nature to some of the situations that Bertie found himself in. It never got to that point, but another book straight away, and I fear it would feel a bit like that.
This is the first time I have read a PG Wodehouse, and I must admit that the depiction of the characters by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie did loom large over my mental imagining of the main characters. This wasn't really a bad thing though, they made a good job of the story in my head! :)
Bertie Wooster is a man about town who lives a largely carefree life, throwing parties for friends before they tie the knot, enjoying lavish dinners cooked by his aunt's sublime chef and generally having a nice time.
After one of these parties he is summoned to see his aunt who sets him a simple task to help her husband purchase a piece of silverware at a reasonable price. This is the beginning of a complex story of intrigue and silliness.
The full ins and outs of the story really matter very little. All you need to know is they concern a frivolous, rich gentleman who gets himself into a series of increasingly tortured scrapes. Caught on the horns of a dilemma he must try and escape with the help of his man, Jeeves.
The Jeeves character is probably the making of the story, wonderfully understated, yet completely pivotal at every stage of the story.
I purchased this story as part of an omnibus, and while I will definitely consume both the other stories in the book before too long, one story is enough for the time being. There was always a danger of there being a 'and with a single bound, Jack was free' nature to some of the situations that Bertie found himself in. It never got to that point, but another book straight away, and I fear it would feel a bit like that.
This is the first time I have read a PG Wodehouse, and I must admit that the depiction of the characters by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie did loom large over my mental imagining of the main characters. This wasn't really a bad thing though, they made a good job of the story in my head! :)