The Code of the Woosters

P. G. Wodehouse is my go to for comfort reading. Any of his books will entertain with his glorious use and abuse of the English language along with endearing, enfuriating and unforgetable characters. The Code of the Woosters is peak Wodehouse for me. I have read it several times now but it can still make me cry with laughter with its delightful turns of phrase and pleasingly preposterous plot.

The Code of the Woosters might be the best funny novel of them all. The all-knowing valet Jeeves and the hilarious narrator Bertram Wooster helped inspire the relationship in my novels between the coffeebot narrator Arjay and private investigator Frank Harken. Wodehouse’s plotting is superb and beyond clever, but it’s the prose—the playful and inventive sentences and paragraphs—that makes me come back to read this book again and again. A sample sentence: “He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled, so I tactfully changed… show more.