The Code of the Woosters

Looking to add fun to my reading I turned to Jeeves and Bertie - well done! Laughed out loud throughout. Recommended for those who enjoy capers and a bit of humorous British stiff upper lip.

Formulaic, familiar, but ever so tickling. Wodehouse's creations are a thing of joy, the situations they land in begging for our sympathy when we aren't busy chuckling like fools on a public transport. And despite the absence of my favourite nemesis, Glossop, there is ample in CotW for the pages to turn of their own accord, while you wait with biting nails for the next trick Jeeves will pull out of his sleeve.

This is my favorite Wodehouse book so far. Jeeves & Bertie have been my favorite character team, but until now I've been used to reading about them in a short story format. In "The Code of the Woosters," Wodehouse spins a brilliant tale revolving around a cow-creamer of all things. Sit back and prepare to be entertained in a witty, engaging way, as Wodehouse crafts the English language in this superb story.

This is just barrels of fun. I'm definitely going to read more Wodehouse.

A classic Bertie & Jeeves adventure! Bertie goes to visit Totleigh Towers with two missions: help Gussie with his engagement problems with the extremely self-centered Madeleine Basset and, perhaps most importantly, to steal an 18th century cow-creamer by demand of his “dear old flesh and blood”, Aunt Dahlia. Problems will keep coming for Bertie once he arrives, but he’ll refuse to let any pal or old ancestor down, because the Woosters are not like that (and thankfully Jeeves will always be around with the best suggestions). I had the book on my night stand for a few months, so I read it in between other novels. The beginning of the story felt very slow and repetitive. But then the dialogs in the last part of the book were so funny, it became hard to stop reading. Definitely one of my Wodehouse favourites just for the scenes with Aunt Dahlia. Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Really liked it

The plot is over the top. It's the language that brings me back and back to these wonderful gems by Mr. Wodehouse. Stiffy and Stinker Pinker and Wooster and Aunt Abigail are just too precious and listening to the audio book made them ride around in my pocket. The cow creamer was not in said pocket.

This is the best Jeeves story I have read. Every time Wooster faced a challenge, I was involved enough that I could connect with and feel for him. His hurdles were realistic, his solutions not too simplistic. Not something one can say about every novel-length Jeeves story. I laughed out loud or sighed in satisfaction multiple times throughout the book. Brilliantly structured, narrated and voiced (I listened to the audiobook, read by Stephen Fry).

Nothing quite like a novel by P.G. Wodehouse to get your upper-class English gentry fix, especially when Jeeves is in the picture to patch everything up in the cleverest of ways. Hilarity ensues in nearly every page as you meander around every surprising twist and turn in the story. Wodehouse has a knack for presenting harmless information at first that he then cleverly uses to keep the mystery of what is to happen next going. "'An odd thing, life, Jeeves.' 'Very odd, sir.' 'You never know where you are with it, do you?'"