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Summary: Absolutely delightful
Review: I laughed out loud through the whole first chapter, and when I was done, I thought to myself, even if I don't read another page of this book, it was worth it, just to have read this one chapter. To my delight the rest of the book was just as good, at least! This is one of the best books I've ever read. Buy it. Read it. And have one of the best experiences of your life!
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Summary: El mejor libro de humor que se haya escrito
Review: Un libro que no tiene ningun desperdicio, te reis de principio a fin, no te aburre en ningun momento. El autor tiene una gran habilidad para describir situaciones y hacer comentarios de tal manera, que realmente te divierte. Lo lei a los 15 años, por casualidad, gracias a mi primo Martin Otheguy (gran conocedor en materia de libros). Lo recomiendo a cualquier persona que quiera alegrarse, o pasar un buen rato. Esta alucinante, no lo dejes de leer.
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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: The author in his inimitable style has managed to make me laugh even in the technology crazed days of today ( as opposed to gliding down the Thames in a simple boat). It is truly one of the most entertaining comic capers of our times (and presumably those times as well !). To be read when depressed, lonely, sad, happy, cheerful, angry, scared, horrified, feverish... just about any mood ( even when you're moodless!)
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Summary: One of the best books ever written
Review: Jerome K. Jerome has the uncanny ability to bring everyday events which took place over a hundred years ago to life. Even though the events described in this book take place in the 1880's (when they were written), you are made to feel as though the author is contemporary with today's society. This is a rare gift, hard to find among even the best of writers. Even the writer's great sense of humor has managed to survive over 110 years of coltural change, and this book remains one of the funniest literary works around.
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Summary: The best book I've ever read...
Review: WOw. If you need a laugh (and of course, if you don't) you must read this book. It's simply great, with some paragraphs you keep coming back to. And also read the sequel, which is good just as well (3 man on the bummel). Hurry up!
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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: This recording is the best BOT ever!
Review: I have listened to hundreds of books on tape. None has ever provided the pleasure this one was. Three Men in a Boat is an amazing book, oh yes. As the reviewers say...brilliant, scathing, funny, clever and a permanent fixture in the mind after one reading. Years later you'll remember the cheese in the train or the vanishing friend in the field or the way Uncle Podger hangs a picture. And I cannot imagine a smile won't come to your lips when you've done so.
But Ian Carmichael clearly inhabits this book, making each voice come alive, offering an absolutely spellbinding reading. He is serious, pompous, twee, giggly, ponderous, ironic and hysterical when needed. No review can do it justice....you must hear him read the story of the mounted trout or the glass of water to know just what a great actor can do with wonderful prose. Listen. Listen again. And again. You won't be able to restrain yourself.
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Summary: Still Relevant
Review: One of the truly classic satirical novels of all time, Jerome K. Jerome's tale of three men's (to say nothing of the dog!) boat trip may take place in 19th Century England, but his hilarious, sarcastic, amazingly precise insights into the human nature make it as relevant in any time and any place (scratching some of the jokes about the technicalities of boating itself). Jerome saw into the absurdities and ironies of life, and put them to paper with wit and venom. Three Men in a Boat is one of the earliest signs of modern English humor, and Jerome's influence is everywhere in the works of satirical authors from P.G. Wodehouse to Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, not to mention English comedians like Monty Python and Lenny Henry. Essential reading, a real classic.
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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 Men in a Boat
Review: J. is a very sick man. To his horror one day, while reading a medical encyclopedia, he realises that he has every single disease, ailment and injury detailed in the book excepting housemaid's knee. At first he is a bit put out that he isn't suffering from that as well, but then the realisation hits him: He is the sickest man in the world and soon he will die. Fortunately, two friends, George and Harris, and of course Montmorency are all there to cheer him up and they decide to go boating.
Three Men in a Boat is portrayed as a sort of touristy travel novel, but it is so much more than that. J. is a hilarious narrator, constantly remembering past adventures or encounters that almost without fail end with a great punchline. He is a straight-faced absurdist, pointing out the casual failings of humanity to make sense, and this of course includes himself.
While the three man bumble about on their trip, sailing from place to place, J. thoughtfully fills us in on some of the history, colouring these sometimes dry patches with stories of his own, or of George or Harris. There is even the occasional story from the perspective of Montmorency, my favourite perhaps being his unfortunate encounter with a very mean, very large cat.
A problem at first with this book was that I, in my ignorance, was a bit unsure that a 19th century Englishman could be funny. Perhaps tainted by an echo of Victorian England, I was expecting dainty tea parties and self-deprecating foppery. I couldn't have been more mistaken. Jerome is a hugely funny author, and there were many times when I actually laughed out loud. But perhaps the greatest part of this novel is that, throughout the comedy, there is the more serious historical sections, and then, here and there, hidden away between a joke or seven, are quiet, contemplative passages that really hit home with some insights into people.
A fantastic read, and short, at only one hundred and fifty pages, it is highly recommended.
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