Going Under Book

This book is a big improvement over the first one, The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories. This one contains 9 stories with 5 of them telling Jeeves and Wooster adventures in New York. The first one was decent enough, but nothing to write home about; the next one finally delivered: it was amusing, clever, and the way Jeeves dealt with yet another difficult situation finally made me his big fan. I also need to mention that these 5 were all good: some better some worse, but in general good.


This leaves us with 4 stories. These are about a guy named Reggie Pepper whose numerous friends end up in desperate situations usually due to their wives/girlfriends/fiancees, etc. The guy does not have an advantage to have Jeeves as his manservant so as a result he often gets the short end of the stick while trying to help. While as the whole I liked these less the second Reggie Pepper story contained the only scene of the book which made me laugh out loud.

Reading this book made me realize something I hate to admit. Every single one of the problems of friends of Wooster and Pepper could be completely solved by making them (friends that is) getting a soul-sucking job 9 to 5 the majority of modern people have; every single one. And here I thought I would never say anything nice about soul-sucking jobs. Oh well, I guess I learned something new.


In the conclusion the book was amusing enough to earn 4 stars, just do not expect laugh out loud scaring the people around you while reading. Yes, I will continue reading about further misadventures of Bernie Wooster and Jeeves.