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Summary: An easy read, a very funny book
Review: This book is something of a family tradition in my family...my father couldn't resist reading choice bits to my sister and me when we were kids. It's a marvelously entertaining book and I still like to refer to myself, like J., as "having a general disinclination to work of any kind". Always a reliable book to read when one desperately needs a laugh, it's also an interesting insight into middle-class Victorian life. Highly recommended
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Summary: One of my favourites
Review: This book is something of a family tradition in my family...my father couldn't resist reading choice bits to my sister and me when we were kids. It's a marvelously entertaining book and I still like to refer to myself, like J., as "having a general disinclination to work of any kind". Always a reliable book to read when one desperately needs a laugh, it's also an interesting insight into middle-class Victorian life. Highly recommended
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Summary: A very humorous, enjoyable, and a must read book
Review: This is actually two books in one, both that I have read. The author is known all over the world and the book is
translated into many languages (even into Estonian). Three
friends decide to make a trip (first in a boat by the
river, then on a bummel in the German woods). Although from
that it may see like a country living story, the main
characters are in no way accustomed to these surroundings.
It is written in very laughable way. Actually you can't help
but get your laughing muscles tired after a while. I still
use an idea from the book "I like work... watching it".
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Summary: I don't get it.
Review: This is another one of those books with nothing but rave reviews that I regret having read. Although it is supposedly comedic I found absolutely nothing slightly humorous in it. Of course, since it was written 100 years ago comedic tastes have changed, but it is hard to believe anyone ever saw any humor here. The words silly and sophomoric come to mind. The only good thing I can say about this book is that it is short and as such did not waste too much of my time.
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Summary: One of my very favorites
Review: This is one of the funniest books I have ever read. I regularly had to put it down and just sit there and laugh! The characters are charming and the language is hilarious. This is a great choice if you want to read something that's fun but has literary merit as well.
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Summary: Very funny, especially the cheese
Review: This is one of the funniest books I've ever read. So why only 4 stars? Because it's not consistantly funny. The problem seems to be that Jerome started to write a travel story, with some serious thought on history and life, and added a few humorous bits as he went along. His editor got him to tone down the history and emphasize the humor, but we, the readers, are still stuck with some dreary Victorian romantic musings.
But then there are the funny bits. And there are a lot of them. I'd say 80% of this book is funny, and a good 10% is hysterically funny. Well worth the few dull patches.
WARNING: Do not read this in a public place. You WILL embarrass yourself by laughing out loud. The pages on cheese are especially deadly. I still giggle uncontrolably each time I re-read them.
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Summary: absolutely charming
Review: This little book is a delight through and through.
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Summary: The Sure-Cure for Autumn-Bleus (sic)
Review: Three Men in a Boat (To Mention Nothing About the Dog) is a timeless wonder in humor-writing whose value as a cure for many psycho-somatic maladies of the present day, high-speed, existense shall keep the voloume ever-popular. The book begins in an ominous note as one of the rowers-to-be is self diagnosed to be sufferring from all maladies but Housemaids Knee, in the compendium. A professional advise calls for a change of air which plunges the three men on a boat. The hilarious (mis)adventures apart, the story is embroidered with a picturesqe description of the English rain-meadows, the likes of which are feared to be on their banks of extinction, along with a quaint narrative of the history of the places. All these together catapults the story to a great height, with roars of laughter, but not only that. Recollections of, the happenings at the Maze; the curios incident of the German singer; and Montmorency: his very thoughts; will continue to coerce the reader to belly-laughs The enlivening, to say the least, line drawings as illustrations, is a jewel in the books crown. Never more, than sufferring bleak, cloudy and chill weekends in my present occupation in Strasbourg, have I realised what an a gem JKJ has left for us.
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Summary: One of the funniest books ever written
Review: Warning: if you have any abdominal problems - for your own sake do not read this book cause you will die laughing! There are some great books, and then there are some all-time best. Three Men In A Boat unquestionably belongs to the latter category. This is easily one of my all-time favorites, and since I first read it when I was 11, I have re-read it well over 10 times, every time discovering new layers of Jerome's humor. It's a very different type of humor from the one we are used to from the contemporary sit-coms. This humor is very refined and sharp, always on the boundary with acid sarcasm. The characters in the book are so real and alive that you will definitely recognize in them someone that you know, or maybe even yourself at times. The overall quality of writing is incredible, and I must reiterate - hours of non-stopping laughter are guaranteed! If you haven't read it, you can't imagine what you are missing!
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Summary: For a good laugh
Review: What to say, what not to say. Whenever someone ask me to recommend a good book to him/her, I always say 'Three Men in a Boat'. Comedy can never be better than this. There are some books that are made funny by exaggeration and some have too simple and obvious events in it that when you actually think about it, they become funny and if you start imagining them, well......you only end up crying (with laughter), holding your stomach and trying to breathe, which you were not able to do so due to your uncontrollable laugh. Actually that is exactly what happens when you read these two books. Something like putting heavy stuff on eggs during packing, or the cheese event, or laughing during a tragic song, or...... The list goes on and on. So enjoy such moments and others like it, read the book :)
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