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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
Not my thing at all. Very disappointed after all the good reviews.
Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel was HILARIOUS. It's hard to believe that this brand of humor isn't more recent - very entertaining!!!
adventurous
challenging
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Oh! how deliciously, delightfully, funny this is and most unexpectedly so. Jerome, Harris and George and the long suffering Montmorency go boating on the Thames around 1889 and their plans and adventures are so wonderfully captured by excellent writing. Sometimes absurd, regularly tangental but always entertaining.
So many moments......
'I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it'
'The late Duchess of York, who lived at Oatlands, was very fond of dogs, and kept an immense number. She had a special graveyard made, in which to bury them when they died, and there they lie, about fifty of them, with a tombstone over each, and an epitaph inscribed thereon. Well, I dare say they deserve it quite as much as the average Christian does'
So many moments......
'I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it'
'The late Duchess of York, who lived at Oatlands, was very fond of dogs, and kept an immense number. She had a special graveyard made, in which to bury them when they died, and there they lie, about fifty of them, with a tombstone over each, and an epitaph inscribed thereon. Well, I dare say they deserve it quite as much as the average Christian does'
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome is a bestselling classic of all time. It is based on a boat trip taken by three men and a dog. The plot sets in England and the author used different tales of history to make the book more exciting.
One day George, Harris, and Jerome decide to go on a boat trip on the Thames with their dog, Montmorency. They needed a break from their busy life. In their two weeks voyage, they met new people, face the worst weather, and feels nostalgic often. Whenever something happens in the present, they think about something specific anecdotes from the past that made the story wittier.
The New Uncle Podger and the Cheese Story are most noticeable; also the incident of Montmorency with cat made me chuckle. At some points, I don't feel the vibe of the book. The version I read has some spelling mistakes. Overall, it is a fast-paced novel where the experiences they had are worth reading. The language is simple, and the end will leave the readers with thoughts where simple things will also make sense after a long detachment.
Read more here - https://www.bookscharming.com/2019/10/book-review-three-men-in-boat-by-jerome.html
One day George, Harris, and Jerome decide to go on a boat trip on the Thames with their dog, Montmorency. They needed a break from their busy life. In their two weeks voyage, they met new people, face the worst weather, and feels nostalgic often. Whenever something happens in the present, they think about something specific anecdotes from the past that made the story wittier.
The New Uncle Podger and the Cheese Story are most noticeable; also the incident of Montmorency with cat made me chuckle. At some points, I don't feel the vibe of the book. The version I read has some spelling mistakes. Overall, it is a fast-paced novel where the experiences they had are worth reading. The language is simple, and the end will leave the readers with thoughts where simple things will also make sense after a long detachment.
Read more here - https://www.bookscharming.com/2019/10/book-review-three-men-in-boat-by-jerome.html
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
funny
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This was yet another random audiobook I picked up at the library - I had no idea it was a classic.
Written in the 1880s, it didn't seem as dated as one might think.
Written in the 1880s, it didn't seem as dated as one might think.
I picked this up under several recommendations, and I'm not sorry I followed them.
However, I would caution anyone looking for a rip-roaring, hilarious tale. While there is a lot of humor sprinkled throughout, a lot of it is the dry, understated, sarcastic type. Anyone reading this (or listening to it on CD, as I did) and expecting to laugh every few minutes will be disappointed. It's not that kind of book.
It is the kind of book that has you thinking back on some of the humor, and realizing a lot of it is still rather funny, which is why this book is still in print after 122 years. The more things change, the more they stay the same, and the idea of a guy rowing furiously against a current to make some progress, only to look up and see he's still under the same bridge where he started, is still apt to produce a snicker or two. Some of the things that made me laugh had a sort of Monty Python quality to them, in that they were silly, and were presented with a completely straight face. I suppose it would be more correct to say that the things I like about Monty Python are like Three Men in a Boat.
There are a lot of funny little bits that I won't quote here, in hopes you go read it for yourself. There are also a lot of observations about the world, among them that people get cranky when speeding past each other in boats (which has translated nicely to the highway, and I couldn't help thinking about, as I listened to the book on my commute).
But the book also has some melancholy moments, some dry bits of history or anecdotes that aren't meant to be funny. Perhaps the humor works so well because it's not thrown at us nonstop, but doled out a little at a time, so we can appreciate it between the bits of apocrypha about how different (yet the same) sailing was over a century ago, for instance.
I enjoyed this read, and I hope people I know will read it soon, so I can talk to them about my favorite parts.
However, I would caution anyone looking for a rip-roaring, hilarious tale. While there is a lot of humor sprinkled throughout, a lot of it is the dry, understated, sarcastic type. Anyone reading this (or listening to it on CD, as I did) and expecting to laugh every few minutes will be disappointed. It's not that kind of book.
It is the kind of book that has you thinking back on some of the humor, and realizing a lot of it is still rather funny, which is why this book is still in print after 122 years. The more things change, the more they stay the same, and the idea of a guy rowing furiously against a current to make some progress, only to look up and see he's still under the same bridge where he started, is still apt to produce a snicker or two. Some of the things that made me laugh had a sort of Monty Python quality to them, in that they were silly, and were presented with a completely straight face. I suppose it would be more correct to say that the things I like about Monty Python are like Three Men in a Boat.
There are a lot of funny little bits that I won't quote here, in hopes you go read it for yourself. There are also a lot of observations about the world, among them that people get cranky when speeding past each other in boats (which has translated nicely to the highway, and I couldn't help thinking about, as I listened to the book on my commute).
But the book also has some melancholy moments, some dry bits of history or anecdotes that aren't meant to be funny. Perhaps the humor works so well because it's not thrown at us nonstop, but doled out a little at a time, so we can appreciate it between the bits of apocrypha about how different (yet the same) sailing was over a century ago, for instance.
I enjoyed this read, and I hope people I know will read it soon, so I can talk to them about my favorite parts.
Intermittently funny and annoying, this is I guess what you'd call a comic Victorian travelogue. I liked the narrator when he described what they were doing, but the asides and random stories he told were distracting.