This is one of the rare occasions when the audiobook was less enjoyable than reading the book in print. Although Frederick Davidson's normal speaking voice is fine, the voices he uses for some of the characters were off the mark and in some cases irritating. Too bad, as this is a very funny book with mostly American characters... ( )

"You may bring me a brandy-and-soda. Not a large one. A couple of bath-tubsful will be enough." ( )

Laugh out loud funny! I listened to it this time and it was fabulous! The language is terrific and the twists and turns amazing. I have to admit that half way through I wondered how on earth Wodehouse was going to extricate these folks from the tangle. But, of course, he is a master and all is well in the end as it should be. Highly recommended! ( )

A fun outing this one. Jim Crocker is a bit of a lad about town, which is fine until his name is linked with that of his aunt Nesta and she takes umbrage about it. She's convinced that Jim is a wastrel and that his life should be turned around by working for his living, preferably in her husband's firm. Jim doesn't necessarily agree with the plan, but he ends up falling in line when he falls for Nesta's husband's niece, Ann. Unfortunately, Ann has had a run in with Jim before, when he was working as a journalist and wrote a piece after an interview in which he scorned her poems and she has been set against him ever since, on principle. Somewhere mixed in all this is a boxer, a plan to kidnap a spoilt brat, baseball and two determined sisters who have married men who might be able to exert themselves in the office, but who wilt when faced with their wives. It's light-hearted and, unlike the Bertie Wooster books, at least has someone wanting to marry (unlike Bertie's aims to not be married). Enjoyable light writing, not entirely believable and relying on co-incidence, but you can forgive that when they're this much fun. ( )

One of Wodehouse's earlier efforts (originally published in 1917), and it doesn't really show him at his best. He hasn't quite rounded into the peak form that he would acquire later. Pretty much for completists only. ( )