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A review by phyllied
Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome
4.0
A delight!
A good friend recommended Connie Willis' "To Say Nothing of the Dog" some years ago, which is a time-travelling homage to Jerome K. Jerome's hilarious classic "Three Men in a Boat." Yet, I did not get around to reading TMIAB until my Great Books book club read it for our January 2017 meeting.
In an unusual turn of events, every member who attended loved the book (in 9 years, I can't remember this happening). Comparisons to "Seinfeld" abounded; TMIAB is a travelogue about nothing interrupted regularly by a series of humorous digressions.
There's no question in my mind that Monty Python were influenced by this book. In fact, the 1975 Tom Stoppard screen adaptation stars Michael Palin (to say nothing of Tim Curry) and does a magnificent job of capturing three members of the emerging clerk class on a river holiday with the trusty scallawag, Montmorency.
It is unfortunate that the average American is unfamiliar with this book. The language is relatively modern considering that it was written in the 1870's; many contemporaries considered the book gauche and low-class. This really ought to be required reading.
A good friend recommended Connie Willis' "To Say Nothing of the Dog" some years ago, which is a time-travelling homage to Jerome K. Jerome's hilarious classic "Three Men in a Boat." Yet, I did not get around to reading TMIAB until my Great Books book club read it for our January 2017 meeting.
In an unusual turn of events, every member who attended loved the book (in 9 years, I can't remember this happening). Comparisons to "Seinfeld" abounded; TMIAB is a travelogue about nothing interrupted regularly by a series of humorous digressions.
There's no question in my mind that Monty Python were influenced by this book. In fact, the 1975 Tom Stoppard screen adaptation stars Michael Palin (to say nothing of Tim Curry) and does a magnificent job of capturing three members of the emerging clerk class on a river holiday with the trusty scallawag, Montmorency.
It is unfortunate that the average American is unfamiliar with this book. The language is relatively modern considering that it was written in the 1870's; many contemporaries considered the book gauche and low-class. This really ought to be required reading.