Worth re-reading time & again
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It must be 30 years since I last read Three Men in A boat, but as I've just moved into a new home beside the Thames I thought I'd get it out again. What a delight! I loved the same old anecdotes that I remembered - and even found some more drolleries which I'd missed before. Wonderful how Jerome's witty, ironic phrases don;t seem to date at all. Definitely worth re-reading again and again.
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Very funny, at least in the beginning
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This is another overrated "British Classic", but I have to say it was extremely funny in the beginning. The problem I had with it is somewhat similar to what the previous reviewer was saying. The book got very boring towards the end, so much so that I was unable to finish it. I think the author used up all the great gags early on and ran out of interesting and amusing things to say. A real shame.
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Amusing ..... but thats all
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I found this book extremley funny (laugh out loud) for the first couple of chapters, but then although remaining amusing it did not live up to the vibrantly cynical start, and getting a bit dry towards the end.
I would also say that I found the Wordsworth Classic rather difficult to read as the print type and spacing is very small and squashed, and the paragraph is something that seems to have been dispensed with in order to keep the book to as few pages as possible. This is something I have found with others in the Wordsworth Classics series and left me wishing I had stumped up for better printed versions.
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The dog that killed the lemons
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I've just introduced my daughter to this book at the age of ten. It is truly a classic as it has had us both in stitches, despite the thiry five year gap in our ages. A hundred years on and the language is still fresh and the characters instantly recognisable. "JJ" points fun at everyone including himself in telling a simple tale of a boating holiday with two friends and a dog, and allows himself to be constantly distracted into telling stories that suggest a butterfly mind lost in a maze. At times it can also be very surreal, however - such as the tale of the tin of pineapple with the mocking grin, and the dog that killed three lemons. It really deserves to be made into a film shot in the first person and using a fish eye lens...
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Delightfully Funny
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If this book proves one thing, it is that good humour is ageless. Jerome K Jerome shows his mastery of wit and words in this hilarious tale of three batchelors on an eventful boat trip. There is a great depth to the modes of humour, which keep the reader chuckling from page to page. It makes you wish you could sit next to the author at a drunken dinner party and hear his hilarious tales first hand.
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