Thursday, 7 April 2022

Jeeves in the offing

 Author : P.G.WoodHouse

Review:

One reads P.G.Wodehouse to laugh. One does not look for logic nor meaning in the plot.  Woodhouse books are well known for their situational humor, the sort of humor which builds up and throws the characters into weird circumstances throwing the readers into fits of laughter.

This book is not much different than his other books. Bertram Wooster decides to visit Aunt Dahlia at Brinkley Court, once again. But unlike the other times, Aunt Dahlia’s house is full of visitors, few of them with a complicated past. Wooster smells trouble but still braves the visit without Jeeves. As expected, people take full advantage of his good nature, and he ends up in a mess resulting in hilarious circumstances. He finds himself falsely engaged to a lady who hatches a plot to use him as a bait to get to her true love. Things get more complicated when there is a theft of his uncle’s precious silver cow creamer. Wooster lands in a big soup until Jeeves comes to the rescue.

The humor is abundant in this book, but I would have loved to see more of Jeeves. But the plot demands the absence of Jeeves for a long time, so the plot drags a little bit till his entrance. But overall, it does provide for a good laugh.

We read P.G.Wodehouse books as stress busters . In the current times where humor is celebrated dark, twisted or cheap, his books provide a great comic relief, especially to  those readers who still appreciate the good old classic humorous style of writing. I would any day recommend P.G.Wodehouse to my fellow book readers.

My Rating: 👍👍👍👍👍

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