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Tales from the Drones Club

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Any day where a person can sit inside and read P.G. Wodehouse is not a day wasted. His artful comic writing is not a thing anyone should miss, whether they have read books from many english authors before or not. Reading at least some of his Jeeves and Wooster stories before reading Tales from the Drones club will add interest to the tales woven therein. A knowledge of the history of Bingo Little and his doings will help you enjoy his many misadventures with his novelist wife, thier pekenise dogs, and thier hideous but very helpful baby. However, the stories can be enjoyed just as well on thier own without any prior history with Wodehouse. The stingy Oofy Prosser, the Scrooge of the Drones club is a delight, and it is even more delightful to see him lose the cash he yearns after when he is bamboozled by of P.G. Wodehouse's masterful plot misadventures. Everyone should read a Wodehouse book. It would probably cure all depression in the world.

It's not every book I say this about, but if you like to laugh at all, you *must* read this book! I can't adequately describe it, but I'll give it a try...This is a book of short stories about a group of well-to-do young English gentlemen, members of the Drones, a London gentlemen's club, focusing on two in particular: Freddie Widgeon, who has loved and lost so many girls that if you put them end to end they would reach halfway down Picadilly (or so they say), and Bingo Little, perhaps the luckiest chap in the club: his perpetual betting habit lands in him in the stickiest situations outside of the Jeeves and Wooster stories, but his guardian angel or lucky star never fails him. Along the way you'll also meet Reginald "Pongo" Twistleton-Twistleton and his wonderful Uncle Fred, in the classic "Uncle Fred Flits By," among other extremely likeable, if mentally negligible, young men. I haven't done this book justice. You *must* read it for yourself.

A collection of reasonably amusing stories (with the exception of the hat story, which you can safely skip).

However, the stories lack the spark of a good Jeeves and Wooster novel, so you will want to read all those first.