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Summary: funny!
Review: It took me a couple of tries to get into the book since the pace of the story is slow relative to today's entertainment, but after a bit of effort I was glad that I didn't give up.
This book had me constantly giggling to myself. While on a train ride, my husband kept hushing me as passengers would repeatedly turn around to see what the fuss was about. Jerome K. Jerome shows the reader how humorous everyday human behavior and human (il?)logic can be.
The funny situations in the book become even funnier when the reader realizes how similar he is to the characters and is forced to laugh at himself. Well, at least in my case!
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Summary: Dating Humor
Review: Swayed by positive reviews on Amazon (and price), I think it may have been a recommendation from a book I have called the Ideal Library
At any rate, this is the story (supposedly true) of 3 men setting on a boat trip and who have a pretty "queer" (read strange, hey this is 19th century British stuff) view of the world
The bookstarts off with an amazing bit on munchausen syndrome, reads okay but some parts on actual boating are real boring
It took me so long to finish, there's good humor considering the book was written in the 19th century but it gets a tad bogged down in the science of boating (pulling, sculls, locks, are you lost yet?). There's a fun ending to the trip though where the band of 3 and their dogs basically abandon their ship and take a train back home, quite telling
The last 40 pages or so are about ghosts, kinda disjointed, save for the humor
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Summary: Three Idiots In A Boat
Review: "Three Men In A Boat" is about these three slightly daft English friends who take a leisure trip in a rowboat down the river Thames. Their little trip is riddled with funny mishaps, accidents, and other humorously unpleasant incidents. It's supposedly based on a real boat trip and the author and his friends, although I'm sure the incidents are embellished for more comic effect. Some British film production, perhaps done by the BBC, exists of this story as well, starring one or more of the Monty Python gang. Both book and film are hilarious. David Rehak
author of "Love and Madness"
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Summary: Three Idiots In A Boat
Review: "Three Men In A Boat" is about these three slightly daft English friends who take a leisure trip in a rowboat down the river Thames. Their little trip is riddled with funny mishaps, accidents, and other humorously unpleasant incidents. It's supposedly based on a real boat trip and the author and his friends, although I'm sure the incidents are embellished for more comic effect. Some British film production, perhaps done by the BBC, exists of this story as well, starring one or more of the Monty Python gang. Both book and film are hilarious. David Rehak
author of "Love and Madness"
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Summary: So much more than just 'Three Men in a Boat'.
Review: 'I like work; it fascinates me. I could sit and watch it for hours'. Jerome K. Jerome's ascerbic wit and flawless observational humour have produced a timeless classic. A rich narrative that is interspersed with cutting punchlines ensure that this book does not become a dull exploration of the British preoccupation with Class. Occasionally the pace of the book flags a little, but by this stage one is already a captive of the gentle, self-effacing humour. The delightful sense of comic timing will almost certainly preserve the popularity of this book for another hundred years.
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Summary: Humour for ever
Review: A kind of humour still current, gentle and delightful as the age allowed but a significant drawing of how the life of three bachelors aged about thirty can be. Maybe I recollect some very similar situations (with the due adaptations), I enjoyed it as a timeless humour, built on the art of the written word and the descriptive ability. It is a sample belonging a kind of literature, good level humoresque or adventurous, suitable for children and adults, typical and still vivid in the Anglo-Saxon tradition and worldwide known.
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Summary: Ball-bouncingly funny
Review: An hillarious book that i wished would never end. Wodehousian in his ability to make subtle humour laugh outloud funny this is one of the funniest books I've ever read. Again like P.G. Wodehouse he is able to encorporate profundity in his observations of the absurdity of his situations. Go on read it.
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Summary: Be adventurous - and out of breath - read this one aloud!
Review: At risk of repeating many of the other reviews here, this book is fabulous! Very funny take on Victoran England from the time. I found it after reading Connie Willis' TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG and probably couldn't pick which one of the pair I liked better. My personal advice here is that if you want to risk never being able to get through a full paragraph without stopping to double over with laughter is to READ THIS BOOK ALOUD! My husband and I tend to read aloud books that we are both interested in reading and that we're pretty confident of the quality of and this one definitely made the cut. It's a much better (and funnier) way to spend a few evenings than watching sitcoms on TV.
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Summary: Truly hilarious!
Review: Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog was recommended to me as a fan of Lord Peter Wimsey, mysteries, and clever, witty writing; I read the reviews and decided that, in fact, I should read Jerome K. Jerome's classic first, which I did. Not only was it a perfect introduction to the Willis book (which I am now in the middle of), but it was a hoot and a half on its own. I admit that I expected it to be a tedious antique but a required introduction to the book I wanted to read, and now I'm delighted to say I was so wrong! I am also a rower, and I was equally delighted to find 1889 tales of oarsmanship to be eminently translatable to 2003. Like its scion, the book is clever and witty in quieter moments, and downright hilarious the rest of the time. An Anglophile's dream, it is as delightful as a lazy summer picnic in Oxford. It is only partly the story of three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog); it abounds with tangents and at times bizarrely associated stories of the type of "that reminds me of..." Those wind up being the funniest bits; I found myself laughing out loud on a number of occasions. Don't let the publication date put you off---- this book is fresh as spring blooms and as funny as P.G. Wodehouse or Basil Fawlty. And if I ever get a male dog, his name will definitely be Montmorency.
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Summary: The best book I've ever read!
Review: Hi there! I'm from Sweden and I just want to say that this is the best book I've read! Have anybody read this book? And have you made a summary of it? Please mail me that summary so that I can compare it with mine!! Many greetings from Sweden!!
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