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Originally Posted by Loosheesh
I would like to read some P G Wodehouse - where should I start? I bought a collection from Amazon which supposedly includes the Jeeves & Wooster series, the Psmith series, and some other novels.
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Psmith is a good place to start; short series and good Wodehouse flavor. Obviously you can’t go wrong with J&W and it really doesn’t matter what order you read them. An earlyish stand-alone I like a lot is
The Small Bachelor. If you don’t like that, Wodehouse isn’t for you.
It took Wodehouse a while to run in high gear. I wouldn’t advise starting from the beginning even though the novels are all available in Gutenberg US. The early stuff is more interesting once you’re a fan, when you can trace his beginnings. They’re not terrible, but they’re weak and there are a couple of stinkers.
As an aside, for several years I’ve been pursuing a quest to read all of Wodehouse in order. I’ve logged 68 works to date.
