Brave New World

This is a well written work, surprisingly so. The author shows us an elaborate futuristic society that doesn't work. It seems to take a stab at capitalism and  mass production and socislism at the same time.
The scene is set in future Britain where everything including the population is mass produced. People are divided into classes based on their genetic makeup and that governs the rest of their lives. Soma are sleep substitute tablets that keep people efficiently playing their role in turning economic engines of society.

It's not unlike much other criticismof capitalism but this is likely to have been one of the earlier ones.

My rating is a 6, but that's mostly because it's a bit slow at times

Do Butlers Burgle Banks?

Yes they can, and in this PGW book, they are capable of much more. Had we had more butlers like Horace Appleby, many a young toddler would aspire to a buttling vocation.
This is one of the first non-drones and non-bertie wooster books that I've read.

Filled with the typical pgw colorful array of characters, one of the main blokes is a bertie wooster like young chappie. There's a butler, horace appleby, who, when he's not burgling banks, is a jeeves like character. There are both a yard man and a country copper.  Claude potter, the scotland yard man I may have read about in other books. The climax in this one is not unlike other pgw works, everyone converges at the scene of the deception a resolution that works for everyone except for the likes of claude potter. Definitely worth reading, this. This gets a 7 on my scale