Laughing Gas Lib/E (CD-Audio)

from steve02476

Diverting, kind of fun, but a little long and the writing didn't seem as inventive as in the two Jeeves books I've read. Funny to hear description of Hollywood in the 20s. Listened to the audiobook version.

from Devil_llama

Wodehouse is such a legend, I didn't quite know what to expect, since this is the first of his books I've picked up. I wouldn't call it great literature, but it is fun and light reading, a nice change from when everything has been a bit heavy. The plot is sort of a Freaky-Friday type body exchang...

from abbottthomas

Using a plot device similar to that in F. Anstey's Vice Versa, Reggie, 3rd Earl of Havershot, our hero, swops bodies with a curly headed child film star, Joey Cooley, The Idol of American Motherhood, and learns first hand of the trials of stardom. Reggie, having the common complaint of Wodehouse ...

from PhilSyphe

First Wodehouse yarn I've encountered that slips the bounds of reality. In short, the male narrator unwillingly swaps bodies with a child actor, which leads to chaos and confusion. Very funny - one of my favourite Wodehouse novels.

from SebastianHagelstein

A British Earl and a child actor in 1920s Hollywood switch bodies accidently while under the influence of laughing gas at the dentist. The Earl, Reggie, spends the rest of the book trying to get back into his own body and evading the problems of being a badly behaved child actor. One funny part, ...