Friday, July 25, 2025

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

My teens and I listened to The Code of the Woosters while on a family road trip this summer, and howled our way through the whole thing. Jonathan Cecil is an absolute delight when it comes to reading the Jeeves and Wooster books.

If you are curious, this is the book involving an antique cow creamer.  Someone buys it.  Someone else wants it.  Bertie agrees to steal it.  Bertie decides not to steal it.  Various friends of Bertie's get engaged, break of engagements, attempt to steal the cow creamer... it's extremely convoluted.  And hilarious.  But not in a way I can explain.  Wodehouse really is one of those authors that you just have to read yourself -- and if you find him funny, you find him very funny, but if you don't... you probably think people who are laughing over the antics and hijinks in his books are very odd.

If This was a Movie, I Would Rate It: PG for a sprinkling of old-fashioned cuss words here and there.


This is my 42nd book read and reviewed for my fourth Classics Club list.

2 comments:

  1. This is the second time today I was reminded that I need to try Wodehouse for myself :P

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  2. I love Wodehouse! I don't see a lot of references to him in the book community so your post made me happy.

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