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Summary: If a book can be perfect, this would be it.
Review: Tremendous amount of humor, hilarity, warmth, generosity, travails and triumphs both domestic and while travelling - this book has it all. It will make you weep with laughter. (I've always been partial to the scene with the canned peaches.)Jerome is one of those now-forgotten Victorian British writers whose names should actually be inscribed in gold on library walls.I would advise this book to anyone above the age of 12 with an even modest sense of humor. It is a tremendous antidote to the curse of modernity, which encourages us to believe that anyone alive in any period before this one must be hopelessly dull, boring, and have nothing to teach or share with us.
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Summary: have read his other work - a wonder
Review: Perhaps I break the rules, having not read the book, but I know the praise all too well. I found Jerome's "Idle Thoughts of and Idle Fellow" in a box of discarded booxs. It is the finest thing I ever read. Why isn't this old Englishman a household word - that's what I want to know . . .
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Summary: Funniest book in the English language
Review: My mother wasn't much for reading, and this is the only book she ever bought me, having loved it herself as a child in the 1930s. I must have read it a dozen times, and every time it literally brings tears to my eyes. Which is no small feat. Those who find the book "too old" (!) might like to try Bill Bryson's Notes from a Small Island. You'll immediately see the kinship across the years.
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Summary: It will make your sides ache
Review: I read this book at least five times and will read it again. My favourite episodes are those related to Uncle Podgers, one of the most comic characters in English fiction after Fielding's Parson Adams. Jerome is so pleasant and yet so "serious" in his way of writing that you can almost hear his voice narrating along. The contrast between the style and the content is what makes the book irresistibly funny. A must read for everybody. Buy this book: you won't regret it! (By the way: has anybody got lost in Hampton Court's Maze? Let me know!)
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Summary: A book I will re-read frequently!! I love it.
Review: This has to be the most consistently funny book I have ever read. Jerome's writing style is a mix of Twain, Wodehouse and Austen. Every page contains something funny and memorable. He has the gift, comparable to Dickens, of bringing his characters to life. You know these guys, heck, you may BE these guys! It's wonderful! I am going to be buying extras as gifts; this is a book that must be shared.
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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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Summary: My annual Spring tonic--wit at its best!
Review: I was given a copy of this book about 12 years ago. It has turned out to be one the best gifts I've ever received. Jerome's witty ramblings are the funniest I've ever read. Mark Twain, who I also love to read, comes close to Jerome's style but, in my opinion, is a poor second. Jerome finds humor in the commonplace and the every day occurrences which all of us, even a good 100 years later, can identify with. Starting with his self-diagnosis of every ailment, excepting house-maid's knee, to his singular insights into his friends, self, and surroundings; I never tire of rereading this book. It becomes clear quickly that the dog, Montmorency, is the only one with any sense. Three Men and a Boat always cheers me after a cold, bleak winter. It's the best Spring tonic--I highly recommend an annual dose. I shop now for gifts to give to friends so they can share my enjoyment in this wonderfully humorous and offbeat book. Read, enjoy, and laugh often.
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Summary: Good book, but old
Review: I can't say anything that anyone else has not already said so I'll just add that I probably missed about half the humor because it's just too old.
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Summary: This book is pure fun, very rarely dull.
Review: I think this book was well worth reading. It's written in a very intelligent way with the base story mixed with the novel-like short stories. And these short stories are mostly hilariously funny. It's surprising to see how timeless situations work in recognition. Jeromes historical inputs are also comic and interesting. This book is pure fun, very rarely dull. It's easy to draw connections to Swedish boating films, such as:"Göta Kanal" and "Segelsällskapsresan". The only thing this book lacks would be a map over the Thames area. Back in 1899, this would have suited perfectly as a guidebook.
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Summary: This is one of the funniest books I've ever read
Review: This book's gentle humor had me laughing out loud. I have passed it on to friends and relatives and had to replace my copy several times. The book seem to go in and out of print and is sometimes hard to find but worth the effort.
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