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Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)

Jerome K. Jerome

Start date: July 14, 2012

Finish date: September 10, 2012

Discussion: Literature with Lunch

Discussion leader: Lissa

Why we're reading this: The classic that inspired Connie Willis's hilarious time-travel novel To Say Nothing of the Dog.

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Mar 04, 2011 Deb rated it did not like it

Shelves: adventure, classic

Classic book narrated by a gentleman who describes--in great detail--his observations upon the boating trip he and two chums went on. Nothing much really seems to happen here, it's just an excuse for the narrator to share family antedotes and his own general opinions of the world as he relates their boating mishaps. Recommended as an early example of a 'thriller' but there's not much thrilling about it. ...more

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