Friday 15 April 2011

Service with a Smile - PG Wodehouse - 1962 ****


I'm very pleased to be able to say that this latest Wodehouse binge of mine was back on top form again after several questional works I read beforehand. However my goal is to read as much of him as possible and you can't expect even excellent writers not to have a few bad works.

Introduced once again to Uncle Fred who can always put a smile on our face, Lord Emsworth who has such a heart-felt attachment to his home Blandings that he cannot bear to be torn away and of course the star of the show, the Empress of Blandings, one of the most pampered and respected pigs of the county (well that's what Lord Emsworth thinks anyway!) who in turn is adored and despised by certain people. The plot is fairly similar and people of course will have that strange feeling of deja-vu that the whole thing has been done before, but that is one of the reasons I keep going back to Wodehouse, because I know that with him at least I am guaranteed to bask in vintage England.


Started 4th April

Finished 14th April