The highest compliment I can pay this book is that it is the only American work that truly bears comparison to the great P.G. Wodehouse. Dobie, though far from a confirmed bachelor, captures some of the inspired daftness of Bertie Wooster's narration of his own impossible adventures.I loved this book when I was a teenager forty years ago, and loved it just as much when I reread it last year. Don't make the mistake of confusing these brilliant stories with that dopey sitcom. You won't go wrong with this one.