Perfect. Every page offered humor and a use of the English language that is reserved for a very few literary geniuses. I laughed to the point of tears several times. The first time I read this book I was quite young and loved it at the time. I wonder what it was I liked since I could in no way have understood the subtle humor and the careful references to debauchery and immorality - this at a time when I hadn’t discovered such things personally.

 

Reading the book made me happy and it is, therefore, recorded as an asset in my literary ledger.