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Summary: The second best book written by PGW, and that is saying some
Review: Spode is one of Plum's more memorable villians, just as Mrs Travers is Bertie's kind and loving aunt.This is perhaps the second most hilarious book by Wodehouse. Sadly the name of the best(according to me) slips me right now, but that is the one Gussie Fink Nottle makes a speech at the grammar school.
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Summary: The creme de la whatsit
Review: Superb! This is a perfect book, ambrosia from start to finish. Includes many classic Woosterisms, plus Bertie's menu for his dream meal; I plan one day to realize that feast...as soon as I learn French. If you don't enjoy this book, there may be something rum with your thingummy.
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Summary: Occasionally amusing but often contrived
Review: THE CODE OF THE WOOSTERS is one of the few novel-length works about "intellectually negligable" young aristocrat Bertie Wooster and his titan of a valet Jeeves. I found the CODE OF THE WOOSTERS somewhat entertaining, though about two-thirds of the way through it starts to drag and all in all left me unimpressed.Summarising the setup of the novel would be difficult, but it begins with a battle over a cow-shaped creamer. The cow creamer is desired by Bertie's Aunt Dahlia and Uncle Tom, but is bought instead by Sir Watkyn Bassett, the retired magistrate who once fined Bertie five pounds for stealing a policeman's helmet. Aunt Dahlia gives Bertie a choice between infiltrating Bassett's house and stealing the cow creamer, or never again tasting the wonderful meals of her French chef Anatole. Two related problems are the engagements of Bassett's niece Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng and Bertie's school chum Harold "Stinker" Pinker, and Basset's daughter Madelaine and Wooster friend Gussie Fink-Nottle. There's also Roderick Spode, Watkyn's menacing associate and the leader of a fascist group called the Saviours of Britain. The book was published in 1937, and through Spode Wodehouse makes a few jabs against Hitler and Mussolini. In spite of its observation of human social interactions which really are often zany, the novel does seem somewhat far-fetched. A character hears a major revelation but reacts too tamely, the plot's resultion in the last couple of pages seems like an easy way out of a book starting to run out of steam. There are a few moments in THE CODE OF THE WOOSTERS which made me laugh out loud, and therefore I do cautiously recommend the book. However, it is a somewhat insubstantial novel, and falls into a three-star rating. If you've never read Wodehouse before, you might want to try one of his many short stories before tackling an entire novel.
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Summary: My favorite Bertie Wooster and Jeeves story
Review: The confrontation between Bertie Wooster, the eternally wooly-headed bumbler, and the evil fascist with a secret, Roderick Spode is one of the funniest things I have ever read.
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Summary: Wodehouse at his sharpest and most farcical
Review: The misadventures of Bertie Wooster and his loyal gentleman's gentleman Jeeves have never been wittier. Wodehouse outdid himself with this classic; every line is a howler and every character, from Aunt Dahlia, to Roderick Spode, to "Stinker" Pinker and that "Spink-Bottle" to Bertram himself...just perfect gems of literary shenanigans. Read this book for no other reason than to bask in the obvious joy Wodehouse took in his language and in the work and play of writing!
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Summary: Non-stop Brit fun!
Review: They don't write 'em like this anymore! Or if they do, I wanna see them! The pleasantly bewildered Bertie Wooster and his Vulcan valet Jeeves return to Totleigh Towers, in Totleigh-on-the-Wold (now Wodehouse KNEW how to make great names) to the house of the Bassets. They must contend with enormous curate Harold "Stinker" Pinker, his devious fiancee Stiffy Byng, the perpetually creepy Sir Watkyn Basset, his wannabe-Nazi friend Roderick Spode, fish-faced Gussie Fink-Nottle, and--worst of all--the soppy Madeleine Basset, who constantly believes that Bertie is madly in love with her. With a cast like that, things are bound to go wrong. To steel up his courage for fiancee Madeleine, Gussie writes down degrading things about Sir Watkyn and Spode in a leather notebook--and promptly loses it. The blackmailing Stiffy Byng takes the notebook and will give it to Gussie if Bertie convinces her fiancee, Stinker Pinker, to steal a policeman's helmet. Still here? The characters are caricatures, but they're GOOD caricatures! Stiffy is almost amoral, the yin to the conscientious Stinker's yang. Spode is his usual blustering, swaggering self. Sir Watkyn reminded me of a small yipping dog just waiting to be squished. Madeleine is still mooning about fairies and bunny rabbits. And poor Bertie is mixed up with them, an innocent soul in a world of very strange people. Read the book, and for heaven's sake watch the TV adaptation!
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Summary: Guaranteed to make you laugh till your sides hurt!
Review: This book by P.G.Wodehouse is one of the best books ever.This is one book where Jeeves (coupled with Aunt Dahlia) are at their very best.It's about a very strange situash (as Bertie would put it) wherin Bertie has to steal an old 18th Century Cow Creamer for his Uncle Tom wanted, failing which his Aunt Dahlia would no longer permit him to taste the cooking of her master chef Anatole again. And, if this isn't bad enough, Bertie's freinds, Gussie Fink-Nottle and the Rev. Henry 'Stinker' Pinker make it worse. And, worst part of it all is old Pop Basset, his buddy and future Dictator of England, Roderick Spode as also Pop Basset's daughter, Madeline and her cousin Stiffy Byng. This book is best read with a dictionary and it is strictly recommended that you avoid the foreign phrases
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Summary: The True King of Comedy
Review: This book is so funny. P.G. Wodehouse is truely the King of Comedy. There is also a great TV series that goes along with the books. Buy it, you'll love it!
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Summary: Laugh,laugh and laugh with Wodehouse
Review: This is probably the best novel by Wodehouse and I enjoyed every bit of it.The ever disaster stricken Bertie and Jeeves feature in this book which has some of the memorable characters- Augustus Fink Nottle,Aunt Dahila,Madeline Basset ( Stars-are-God's-daisy-chains ),Pop Basset and Roderick Spode!.Bertie is sent By Aunt Dahila to pinch an 18 th century cow-creamer and what follows is typically wodehouse material.You just can't stop reading once you pick this book up!Wodehouse at his very best.
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Summary: Wodehouse at the top of his form
Review: This isn't just a "good" Bertie-and-Jeeves novel (they're all good); it is, along with Jeeves In the Morning, the BEST. It's the perfect introduction to Wodehouse's farcical world. The thing that makes this series stand out from the Blandings series and everything else is that they're told by clueless, intellectually-challanged Bertie Wooster, and this adds a delicious extra layer of humor. This is also why any performance of the Jeeves novels will necessarily only catch a fraction of the wit to be found in the books. You get the situations but not the narration. Jeeves In the Morning was titled Joy In the Morning in Britain, by the way. Fair warning: read either Code of the Woosters or Jeeves In the Morning and you risk becoming a Wodehouse fan for life. (Of course, I think it's a risk you should take.)
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