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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: Beware - you might choke laughing :)
Review: The above title refers to the book itself, not to the following review of course. I run along my predecessors in the latter, meaning that I do share their opinion of the book as the most hilarious and funny piece of [English] literature to hit the press by the end of XIX century.
It IS extremely funny. It IS hilarious. But it is not only funny -it is sweet. It is sweet with the sweetness of Victorian/Edwardian age, with its peculiar (I may even use beloved term of Dr. Watson - singular) language and dear old expressions. I've read and reread it many times, and even though I always know the next joke to follow, I can't help giggling under my mustache (not that I have one, it's just an idiom :))
If you have never been to England (that is, like yours truly), this book is enough to make you fall in love with English countryside. The Thames riverside is described in a lovely, charming way making you wish you were richer man able to afford the journey there.
This book was one of several which formed my mental image of England in my childhood, along with Sherlock Holmes stories, Wind in the Willows, Donald Bisset and some more. I love that image, with dear old gentlemen in top-hats and frock-coats, and ladies of exquisite upbringing, all folks addressing each other 'sir' in mostly polite way and so forth
Surely, you won't regret reading it :)
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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: Way too much fun
Review: This book is much funnier than any book written by a 19th-Century Englishman has any right to be! It's a delight, and I would definitely recommend following it up by reading Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog, a time-traveling take-off on Jerome's book.
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