wictory 's review for:

The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
4.0

I adore Wodehouse, but I admit I loved these stories more after having watched the Jeeves and Wooster TV series starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster and Stephen Fry as Jeeves. It's hilarious and charming simultaneously and it's incredibly helpful in deciphering Bertie's speech patterns in the books.

Bertie and his foolhardy friends get into ridiculous scrapes, or are forced into them by autocratic aunts, but either way, they are always saved by Jeeves' genius maneuvers. It's a sort of a loving lampoon of Britain's upper classes in the years after the Great War, and it's really worth a read. These books are basically an anti-depressant, so take two and call me after you read them.