Some amusing tales - Rated 
By my SAM, this is indeed quite amusing. Well written too,as you would expect, laddie. Go on - buy this for your library.
Other Dimensions of Wodehouse for the Diehard Fan - Rated 
One nice thing about Ukridge is that it is Wodehouse away from the Earls, Dukes, valets, Blandings Castle and so on. Nothing wrong with that stuff -- on the contrary -- but you just see a different side of tings.
Ukridge is something of an acquired taste, but once you get onto his manner, you can't get enough of him.
The characters, a few stories in, grow on you, especially Corky the narrator.
I laughed loud and hard several times while reading this book, in an unplanned way
Ukridge abandoned... - Rated
The least successful of Wodehouse 'heroes' and thus, never repeated. I am an absolute and sincere fan of old P.G. but I could never 'take' to this character; and believe me, I've tried! Everyone is entitled to 'get it wrong' once in a while and Wodehouse realised his error in creating this vaguely sleazy character as a 'main-player'.
I Rather Enjoyed it. - Rated
`Ukridge` was somewhat bizarrely published in America as `He Rather Enjoyed It' and very enjoyable it is to, although it is not necessarily enjoyable to be a friend of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge which is one of the most efficient ways to be separated from any money you may happen to have on you. Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge is conclusive proof that there is such a thing as a free lunch, he has been known to enjoy a number of them.
We first met Ukridge in `Love Among the Chickens' when the recently married Ukridge was keen to make his fortune from a Chicken farm, this collection of short stories is set sometime before `Love Among the Chickens' when Ukridge is single and culminates with his courtship of Millie who became his wife. Rather than be narrated by Jeremy Garnet this collection is written in the voice of Corky Corcoran who again is a writer of newspaper articles. Corky and Ukridge are school friends, old Wrykinian men of previous Wodehouse fame. Also present throughout the stories are George Tupper who is generally good for a couple of pounds and the spectre of Ukridge's Aunt Julia who hangs over Ukridge's every action; should he fail she will give him refuse and make him wear a stiff collar, `It's rather thick for a fellow with a broad and flexible outlook' as Ukridge would have it.
Ukridge's Adventures take him from trying to start a school for dogs, kidnapping parrots, to managing Willie `Battling' Billson (a pugilist of some skill but very little intelligence) and each venture generally fails except in managing to entertain and amuse. At last a Wodehouse hero not troubled by the old noblesse obliqe, `A capital fellow in many respects, but not a man lightly to be allowed at large', fantastic.
A great tale - Rated
This is one of P. G. Wodehouse's many works written in the 1920s and 1930s. It shows an upper-middle-class ne'er-do-well in pecuniary difficulties who adopts many hare-brained schemes to make money. The book also features his long-suffering friends and shows what life for a gentleman was like in this period. I particularly liked the frequent references to spats (for the uninformed, these are objects to protect the lower leg from rain and mud). All the escapades are self-contained chapters and can be enjoyed if one just has an odd moment. One often feels sorry for the eponymous Ukridge, who manages to be charming as well as irresponsible. He infects his friends with his unfailing enthusiasm and optimism. Like all of Wodehouse's work, this book is very humorous and still most suitable for the young gentleman of to-day.
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