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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | Jerome's comic masterpiece — and one of the best-known classics of English humor — follows the misadventures of 3 bungling, Victorian-era bachelors who take off on a rowing excursion up the Thames. Their disastrous struggles with camping equipment, meal preparation, and rampant hypochondria trumpet simple truths that still resonate today.
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Jerome K. Jerome | | Paperback: | 144 pages | | Publisher: | Dover Publications | | Publication Date: | June 16, 2006 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0486451100 | | Product Length: | 8.24 inches | | Product Width: | 5.2 inches | | Product Height: | 0.28 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.28 pounds | | Package Length: | 8.0 inches | | Package Width: | 5.0 inches | | Package Height: | 0.6 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.5 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 20 reviews |
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 A book full of humor Jun 13, 2010
"Three men in a boat..." is a wonderful book full of humor. Everybody should have a chance to read it.
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 Still funny after 90 years May 27, 2010
After readingConnie Willis' book, "To Say Nothing of the Dog" I became intrigued about part of the source material so I bought this book and it is a hoot. Be aware, this version is about the size of a comic book and only slightly thicker. It does not take a long time to read but it is worth the effort especially if you are a fan of dry, British humor mixed with more than a little slapstick (I think the Brits did a film version of this for a series called "Ripping yarns"). The story is simple, three friends travel up the Thames (for lack of anything else to do) with a dog, Montmorency. The story is focused on observations of the things they men fall prey to on their trip and may require a little research to understand all the jokes as it is specific for the country and time (in some cases). If you enjoy jeeves and Wooster you will like this little story and how can you not try a tale by an author called Lerome Jerome
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 Perhaps Jerome K Jerome was Bill Bryson's grandfather! Mar 19, 2010
If you can imagine a Bill Bryson comic travelogue written by someone with turn-of-the-20th-century Victorian sensibilities and a typical laid back yet biting, caustic British sense of humour ... then you have a pretty good handle on what to expect when you read Jerome K Jerome's classic "Three Men in a Boat"!
While it was originally intended to be a serious travel guide, the story devolved in the writing into an almost slapstick story of the trials and tribulations of three landlubbers who took it into their minds to take a boating holiday on the Thames River.
Even Jerome's establishment of the raison d'être for the river trip is a wonderful example of that brand of humour that is uniquely British. Three mates, each a worse hypochondriac than the other two, are discussing their respective ills, pains, aches and ailments (and this conversation, by the way, establishes the humour for the entire book that ranges somewhere in a triangle bounded by wry grins, charmed smiles and laugh-out-loud hilarity). The mutual decision is reached that taking the air and relaxing on an open boat trip under canvas on the Thames would be good for what ails everybody. Sherlock Holmes would have said, "The game is afoot!".
If the book were a television show, it might be described as a series of loosely related comedy sketches - the difficulties of learning to play a bagpipe; how to get lost on a river that goes in only one direction; how men typically behave (or misbehave) when they've had too much to drink on a camping trip; how to do as little work as possible while ensuring that your buddies are not aware of what's going on, and so on.
Sit back and enjoy! "Three Men in a Boat" has to be the most easy-reading classic you could possibly find. Highly recommended.
Paul Weiss
Three Men In A Boat - Great! Jan 17, 2010
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) is one of the classic books of British humor. It was first published in 1889. Here is the author's brief summary of Chapter One. "Three Invalids--Sufferings of George and Harris--A victim to one hundred and seven fatal maladies--Useful prescriptions--Cure for liver complaint in children--We agree that we are overworked, and need rest--A week on the rolling deep?--George suggests the River--
Montmorency lodges an objection--Original motion carried by a majority of three to one." This book is only 135 pages long--a quick antidote for our more complex and less humorous times. It can also lead you to Connie Willis' "To Say Nothing of the Dog" Connie is an honored science fiction (with lots of humor) author. I believe she has won more science fiction prizes than any other American author. The dedication of "To Say Nothing of the Dog"
reads "To Robert A. Heinlein Who, in Have Space Suit, Will Travel, first introduced me to Jerome K. Jerome's "Three Men in A Boat, To Say Nothing of the Dog." I wish to all of you who read this book a joyous interlude to life in the 21st century.
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This is a funny book Sep 19, 2009
This is a funny book. The categorization of comic novel is right on. At one point, I was averaging one out-loud laugh per page. Then I lost count. Plus: It's short. The narrator is a resistentialist, which is fun, too. This was a good diversion for me.
The book is about three friends (plus the dog, Montmorency) who decide it's time for a break and set out, sculling up the Thames, camping at night or, alternately, staying at a local inn. Interspersed with the actual events of the book are many back stories, which, at least to some degree, really make the book.
This is not a book to skim, though, despite its brevity. I think it may have had to do with this particular edition, but sometimes I realized that I didn't know what I was reading about and have to back up. I'd never missed much (never more than a few lines), but still.
There are just so many reasons to recommend this book: If you like dogs. Boating. England. History. Humor. Performing. Camping. Resistentialism. Traveling. Cheese. A fondness for any one of these, I think, would be enough to commend this book to you.
Because of the success of this book, Jerome went on to write Three Men on the Bummel.
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