Three Men In A Boat - Jerome K. Jerome

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Title: Three Men In A Boat: To Say Nothing Of The Dog Author: Jerome K. Jerome Genre: Classics Rating: 7/10 # pages: Audiobook Date read: July, 2007

Summary: Imagine Bertie Wooster and two of his idiot friends out on a boat... with no Jeeves. That about describes "Three Men in a Boat : To Say Nothing of the Dog," Jerome K. Jerome's enchanting comic novel about three young men (to say nothing of the dog) who discover the "joys" of roughing it.

The three men are George, Harris and the narrator, who are all massive hypochiandriacs -- they find that they have symptoms of every disease in existance (except housemaid's knee). To prop up their failing health, they decide to take a cruise down the Thames in a rented boat, camping and enjoying nature's bounty.

Along with Monty -- an angelic-looking, devilish terrier -- the three friends set off down the river. But they find that not everything is as easy as they expected. They get lost in hedge mazes, end up going downstream without a paddle, encounter monstrous cats and vicious swans, have picnics navigate locks, offend German professors, and generally get into every kind of trouble they possibly can...

Review: Absolutely hilarious! I love the dry wit of Jerome's writing, even if some of his tangents went just a bit too far out. It's the perfect book for reading aloud, and I wish I'd known it while I was still living at home, so I could've gotten dad to read it to us on one of our vacations.

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