Service With a Smile

from Pferdina

Everyone converges at Blandings Castle. At least three parties want the pig, Empress of Blandings, and three couples want to be married. In addition, Lord Emsworth's latest secretary wants capital to start her own business. It falls to Lord Ickenham to straighten it all out. Which he does. With a...

from MrsLee

This book was delightfully silly and reminded me of very subdued Monty Python humor. My favorite bits of course are about the pig, simply because I loved raising show pigs and understand how dotty one can be and also how misunderstood.

from nohablo

Fast, frivolous, and fun. The ultimate comfort read. Granted, sometimes Wodehouse's loopy, spiraling sentences can get a little draggy and strained, but for the most part? Perfection.

from atimco

Service With a Smile is a Blandings story, one of the later ones featuring Uncle Fred (Lord Ickenham). As is usual in a Wodehouse novel, the romantic mix-ups are compounded by various plots to steal someone's personal property - in this case, the Empress of Blandings, Lord Emsworth's prize pig. W...

from PhilSyphe

Blandings is my favourite Wodehouse series, and Lord Emsworth my favourite Wodehouse character, but “Service with a Smile” isn't one of my favourite Wodehouse novels. Somehow, it lacked the charm I expected to find. Also, it felt too similar to previous books in the series. Yet again, someone pla...