It’s really funny. It is deceptively  simple and the prose is so readable, if you blink you’ll miss a lot of things so the lesson is to take one’s time. Parts of the book did not age well and so I have knock off a few points for that, BUT. BUT, of the books written about and during the interwar years—the decade between the first and second world wars—this is my favorite that I’ve read. Humor is a good way to deal with almost anything and Waugh’s humor is sharp, witty and ironic. I really enjoyed it and will eventually read other works of his.