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Only critical edition available of two popular modern classics, comic tales of expeditions made by middle-class Victorians.
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'Other works may excel this in depth of thought and knowledge of human nature: other books may rival it in originality and size; but, for hopeless and incurable vivacity, nothing yet discovered can surpass it.' (Jerome, Preface to Three Men in a Boat). Three Men in a Boat describes a comic expedition by middle-class Victorians up the Thames to Oxford. It provides brilliant snap-shots of London's playground in the late 1880s, where the fashionable steam-launches of river swells encounter the hired skiffs of city clerks. The medley of social vignettes, farcical incidents, descriptions of river fashions, and reflections on the Thames's history, is interspersed with humorous anecdotes told by a natural raconteur. Three Men on the Bummel records a similar escapade, a break from the claustrophobia of suburban life some ten years later; their cycling tour in the Black Forest, at the height of the new bicycling craze, affords Jerome the opportunity for a light-hearted scrutiny of German social customs at a time of increasing general interest in a country that he loved. This account of middle-aged Englishmen abroad is spiced with typical Jeromian humour.
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Warning: if you have any abdominal problems - for your own well-being do not attempt to read this book! You will laugh so hard you stomach will be sore for days. 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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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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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.
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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One of the funniest books I have ever read
Even if the book has been written more than 100 years ago, it's still one of the funniest, greatest examples of English humour. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 20. Juni 2000 veröffentlicht
One of my very favorites
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. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 12. März 2000 veröffentlicht
A great antidote against winter blues and more!
I first read this book in translation to Russian, many (too many!) years ago. In the former Soviet Union (and in Russia proper, before there ever was a Soviet Union), this and... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 14. Januar 2000 veröffentlicht
Delightful Heroes.
A delightful series of novels, whose characters and witticisms revolve around the writer's preoccupation with the complexities of the trivial, in a universe governed by an almost... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 9. Januar 2000 von Alexander Hoetzer
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