Uncle Fred in the Springtime Mass Market Paperback – January 1, 1966

This glorious romp has every component one would hope for, including the Empress’s observations about bathrooms.Such fun! Jeeves and Wooster are justly celebrated, but I’m a die-hard Blandings fan.

I loved the Jeeves & Wooster books so I was sad when I read the last one. Then I decided to move on to other Wodehouse books and have read a few since. I have to say this is one of my favorites! It definitely compares to the hilarity of the Jeeves/Wooster books. Uncle Fred or the Fifth Earl of Ickenham is one of my favorite Wodehouse characters. He always seems to be dragging his nephew Pongo Twistleton (occasionally mentioned as a fellow Drones club member in the Wooster books) into trouble but always seems to get through it as is typical in the Wodehouse books. Anyway, it is a great read, a good laugh, and a lot of fun. On a side note, if you like Wodehouse, the dvd series of Jeeves and Wooster (starring Hugh Laurie from the tv show House) is also very funny. You will see many of your favorite Jeeves story lines in them and they are very true to Wodehouse.

... but difficult to keep the characters straight, particularly when you’re new to the Blandings Castle series - and this edition doesn’t offer an “X-ray” feature to bail you out. Particularly true during the many dialogue interchanges.

Next time someone asks you what you're reading you'll be able to tell them you're reading P.G. Wodehouse and not some of the best seller crap that is massed produced by a team of writers. Read Uncle Fred in Spring Time, or any of the Blandings Castle series or the Jeeves series and you are guaranteed lots of smiles and some burst of laughs. J. K. Rowlings wishes she could be as good as Wodehouse. (Her recent effort is like walking through a swamp.)WARNING: If you read one Wodehouse novel you may be hooked.Have fun.

Mr. Wodehouse never disappoints! A book to delight you as he weaves his many plot threads to the iniminent happy and surprising conclusion.

For those of you who know Wodehouse, Uncle Fred is exactly the same as the Honorable Galahad Threepwood of Blandings Castle. And since Galahad, otherwise known as Gally, is my absolute favorite Wodehouse character, I think Uncle Fred is zany, big-hearted and an absolute delight. You either love Wodehouse or you hate him. If you love him, you'll love Uncle Fred in any book he's in.

This is the third P. G. Wodehouse novel I read in about two weeks and I enjoyed each one of them. Lucky me, the man has written over 90 books and I am sure they will keep me well entertained in 2014. The amazing plot of this book and the author's brilliant use of the English language together with his dry sense of humor make this novel a book I highly recommend.

I was looking forward to reading this book as I remembered reading P.G. Wodehouse in the past and being really amused. Am I not as easily entertained now? Was I just not in the mood? I've kept the book and will try another day----maybe in the springtime! I would not discourage anyone from reading this though as I do think how much you enjoy it depends entirely on the reader.