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In my youth, I wasn't fond of PG Wodehouse: I've never been keen on upper-class twits and I was greedy. I wanted everything: I required brilliant plots, exceptional characters and laugh-out-loud humour. Age brought the realisation that you have to compromise and I came back to Wodehouse with a different mindset. The humour is gentle and subtle: there's never any malice in it. The characterisation is two-dimensional where women are concerned: there's little in between old gorgons (Aunt Agatha, we're looking at you...) and young schemers such as Honoria Glossop. The plots are superficial but gently engaging. They're fun- and the writing is exquisite.
It's said that in difficult times readers turn to [[The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|Jane Austen]], as I did recently, but where do you go when you've finished that and [[The Complete Barchester Chronicles by Anthony Trollope]]? Well, I went to Wodehouse. Stephen Fry narrates ''The Inimitable Jeeves'', ''Carry On, Jeeves'', ''Right-Ho, Jeeves'', ''The Code of the Woosters'' and [[Joy in the Morning by P G Wodehouse|Joy in the Morning]]. It's a good selection and you get forty hours of listening time and as this is volume one we can expect more to come.
