The Inimitable Jeeves, Vol. 1 Book

"What are the chances of a cobra biting Harold, Jeeves?"
"Slight, I should imagine, sir. And in such an event, knowing the boy as intimately as I do, my anxiety would be entirely for the snake."

Once again I start my review of a book of the series with a quote. Any book is highly quotable. This installment consists of interconnecting stories mostly dealing with Bertie's pal Bingo Little. The guy's hobby is to fall in love with a girl on regular basis - a different one every time, exactly like Pepé Le Pew.

Every time he thinks she is the one, he keeps involving poor Bertie to help him and every time it is Bertie who ends up having to deal with the consequences. Sufficient to say he almost got marries twice instead of Bingo - it is complicated.

Luckily he had Jeeves to get him out of sticky situations (in other words, Jeeves had to help him practically every minute). Add to this no-nonsense Aunt Agatha who considers Bertie to be something similar to a village idiot

and you can imagine that out hero did not have time to get bored - either his aunt, or his friend were always handy to make his already complicated and life even more complicated.

"How does he look, Jeeves?"
"Sir?"
"What does Mr Bassington-Bassington look like?"
"It is hardly my place, sir, to criticize the facial peculiarities of your friends."

This is book 2 of the series. It also happened to be the first book containing Jeeves and Wooster stories exclusively. The characters still lack polish of the later books, the relationship between them are slightly different from what they will be later. Jeeves feels a little off. Bertie Wooster however is his usual self. I found the book very amusing. I smiled a lot reading it, however I did not laugh out loud like I did reading books 6 and 7. 4 firm stars is the final rating. If you want a humorous book you can do so much worse than this.