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Love Among the Chickens (Ukridge, #1)

P.G. Wodehouse

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Feb 18, 2019 Shannon Cooke rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Reading Wodehouse in chronological order, you get a somewhat skewed sense of his style early on. Prior to this, everything has been school stories. Don't get me wrong, those are great too, and they show the makings of great wit and cleverness, but they just don't feel like Wodehouse.

Love Among the Chickens feels like Wodehouse.

For the first time, we get a truly remarkable and memorable character. The five prior books sort of blend together in my mind, so that I couldn't tell you who did what, ce ...more

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Sep 08, 2018 Joe Stevens rated it liked it

Having read through half a dozen of the British school daze books that PG Wodehouse wrote to start his career, this book set on a farm and featuring adults was bordering on joy. While not a peck on his greatest characters, Ukridge was The Master's first memorable one at any rate.

There are some genuinely funny moments here as Wodehouse wrote what he knew best making the narrator a writer of stories for magazines. The plot and characterization are decent enough and a step up from the other novels ...more

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