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A review by tracycumming
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
5.0
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'