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Laughing Gas by PG Wodehouse - Rated
Laughing Gas by PG Wodehouse : Great book; classic Wodehouse. Did he originate the "body swop" story line?
Laughing Gas No Anesthetic. - Rated
In `Laughing Gas' Drone Reginald Swithin, the third Earl of Havershot, has been despatched to Hollywood as head of the family to entangle his cousin, Egremont, from an engagement his family considers to be unsuitable. As is traditional in Wodehouse's novels not only does his fail to entangle Eggy but soon he himself becomes engaged to be married to a particularly unsuitable match. Most unusually in a Wodehouse novel Reggie's mind is cosmically transferred with that of Hollywood child star Joey Cooley.
This is undoubtedly the most unusual of all of Wodehouse's novels and its fanciful plot was no doubt tempered by the MGM lot that Wodehouse was employed by and was light heatedly satirising as he had done previously in `The Luck of the Bodkins' and some of his Mr Mulliner short stories composed around this period in his career.
Although the rudeness of cosmic supernatural events imposing its self in Wodehouse's idyllic world does jar throughout reading this novel it is still a great Wodehouse comedy. The strangeness of the premise is possibly limited by the novel being written in the first person which is generally unheard of in Wodehouse outside of the Jeeves and Wooster stories; the `Silly Ass' voice underplays the improbability of the transfer. All in all another great book and its originality stops it blending into the very similar nature of the greatest Wodehouse stories.
Lesser known gem from the Master - Rated
Hilarious body-swap tale involving an obnoxious half-portion (small child for those who don't speak Wodehouse) and a young man whose upper lip presents the preliminary scenario for a moustache. It all starts in the dentist's chair...
My first Wodehouse... but not my last - Rated
Perhaps the fact that this was my first PG Wodehouse book means that I am biased, but it is simply superb. "Laughing Gas" is a slight departure from Wodehousian norms, concerning the repurcussions of a slight mix-up in the fourth dimension causing Reggie, Earl of Havershot, and child star Joey Cooley (the Idol of American Motherhood) to exchange bodies. Okay, so this idea has been done to death by countless bad films, but PG Wodehouse really makes it work, fixing the love- and starchy foods-related problems of both characters in aplot that is a joy to read. Oh, and Reggie's first-person narration is a hoot, too.
