Claire's review
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Claire's review
rating:
bookshelves: elves-witches-vampires-and-the-like, five-stars, my-happy-books
recommended for: People too rational to have survived in Victorian England.
rating:
bookshelves: elves-witches-vampires-and-the-like, five-stars, my-happy-books
recommended for: People too rational to have survived in Victorian England.
If you know a lot about Victorian England from literature, this book will be a hundred times funnier. I haven't read Jerome K. Jerome's "Three Men In a Boat," to which this book apparently owes a great deal, but it's still plenty hilarious. I cannot overstate the comedy genius of this story about a snarky time traveler forced for research purposes to live in Victorian England, amid seance-crazy mothers, jumble sales, idiot village curates, and swoony young men smitten with nitwit girls. You'll know all you need to know when I tell you that the entire farcical plot hinges upon our hero finding a missing item that he must bring back to the future with him--which seems like a pretty standard sci-fi plot, until you find out that the item of such crucial importance is a hideous piece of Victorian arts and crafts that his boss needs in order to appease a Gorgon duchess who wants to do an EXACT replica of the cathedral where this piece of crap was once located.
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