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Title: To say nothing of the allusions...
Review: I suppose the best way to characterize this novel is as a cross between Wodehouse and Douglas Adams.-Perhaps this makes no sense at all to the putative reader, perhaps the book itself doesn't exactly come across as a paradigm of perfect logical construction, but what fun it is to read!Also, Eng. Lit majors might want to brush up on their late Victorian poetry. A pocket Latin-English dictionary comes in handy as well for those who, like myself, took four years of Latin, but are a bit rusty on some vocab. Oh, and also a knowledge of Middle English comes in rather useful in one scene.All this aside, if you fancy Adams and/or Wodehouse and can possibly imagine a book in which the humour somehow manages to combine the two, then...READ. The book is a perfect 5 star lark.And I shan't even begin to mention the cat.
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