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Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog (Tor Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jerome K. Jerome
Publisher: Tor Classics
Category: Book
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Rating:  68 reviews
Sales Rank: 349044
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Unabridged
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0765341611
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780765341617
ASIN: 0765341611
Publication Date: October 14, 2001
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Product Description
"I had the general symptoms, the chief among them being a disinclination to work of any kind."
So begin the hilarious misadventures of a merry, but scandalously lazy band of well-to-do young men-and a plucky and rather world-weary fox terrier named Montmorency-on an idyllic cruise along the River Thames. Feeling seedy, muses one of them dreamily, "What we want is rest." What they find instead is one hapless catastrophe after another. Soggy weather, humiliating dunkings, the irritating behavior of small boats and the "contrariness of teakettles" are just a few of the barbarisms our genteel heroes are forced to endure. But which a delighted reader can only sing, Hooray!
First published in 1889, Three Men in a Boat was an instant success, and Jerome has been compared to comic master P.G. Wodehouse.
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 Still Funny After All These Years February 3, 2008
R. J. Marsella (California)
This is a funny rambling story told by a Victorian era ranconteur that still holds up well for the most part. The Boat trip up the Thames is the setting that allows Jerome Jerome to reflect on all sorts of things in the style of a Mark Twain and his wit is highly entertaining. Don't expect to be bowled over with laughter though, his material is a bit dated.
Nevertheless, this is a funny.witty and at times enlightening look at a period in England that is no longer.
 three men in a boat from the oxford bookworms library May 4, 2007
Mimi Astrid Yuwiena (singapore)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I read this book about 10 years ago......and today I'm still laughing.
Jerome possessed very good comic timing, the story flowed naturally, the emotions and reaction of the 3 men were so real that I wish I was on the river and met them at that time! Somehow this book can teach us the importance of taking a break from our daily life.
I recently bought a copy from Amazon which was initialy meant as a gift for someone, but having a second thought, I decided to keep it as a precious reading companion for myself when I'm travelling.
 Didn't age well March 26, 2007
C. Reiman (Mountain View, CA USA)
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
Jerome K. Jerome might have been a riot 100 years ago but this book will provoke only a rare smirk. The best bits belong to the dog who only seems to appear at the end of every third or fourth chapter to drop a one-liner. Other than that, it is aged, slow moving slapstick with some oddly out-of-place moments of reflection.
How anyone can call this a laugh riot boggles my mind.
Good reading of delightful novel November 10, 2006
Stuart Flicker (Los Alamos, NM USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a very nice reading of one of my favorite humorous novels.
Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog November 10, 2006
Susie E. Sheffield
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
So very refreshing!!!!! Lots of laughs.
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