I Say! A topping read my chappies! Okay, no more of that. In all seriousness, this was a great fun light read. I enjoyed each story exceedingly. This is the first P.G. Wodehouse book I've read. I'm lead to believe that while it is good, some other stuff of his is much better. In fact, I was expecting this to be far less entertaining. Something about the year 1919 doesn't really have a nice ring about it as a publishing date. In any event, these stories were all amusing. Some more than others. And I must say I hold a preferential bias toward enjoying the Jeezes/Wooster stories more than the Reggie Pepper ones. Not to suggest the Reggie ones weren't entertaining, because they were.

Why 4 instead of 5 stars? My only real qualm is in the fact of each story being rather formulaic. You could always expect the words Rummy, Topping, Chappies, etc. So stylistically each story resembled the others a great deal. But that didn't really bother me much, it was merely something I noticed as I read several stories in a row. It does warrant a reduction of one star I feel, because the stories could have been a bit more varied in composition.

Essentially the stories seem to roughly go as follows (albeit correct me if I'm wrong):
Friend comes to Wooster or Reggie Pepper with a problem
A resolution is settled upon
The resolution doesn't go quite as planned
Failure causes some discomfort to the characters
New resolution to problem comes
Resolution succeeds
General happy ending

A bit more diversity plot form would have been preferred but on the whole I enjoyed it, and look forward to more in the future.