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After all these years I finally got around to this book. We took it along as an audiobook on our last long trip. It was just as wonderful as I've always heard. Seinfeld, folks. Seinfeld a hundred years ago. Clever. Smart. Funny.
The story is simple: three friends head out on a boat trip down the Thames. All three are a bit lazy and negligent and self-centered. It's all in good fun. A great read. Mustn't miss it.
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The story is simple: three friends head out on a boat trip down the Thames. All three are a bit lazy and negligent and self-centered. It's all in good fun. A great read. Mustn't miss it.
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In this 1889 classic three young men, apparently long-time friends, decide their lives would be enhanced by a boating vacation on the Thames, a river in the UK. Anything that could go wrong did go wrong and it was clear they weren't going to get any peace and relaxation.
The author made sure they had one problem after another showing how these boating vacations, which included hauling the boats while walking alongside, were sometimes not as happy as they were supposed to be.
Fortunately the young ...more
The author made sure they had one problem after another showing how these boating vacations, which included hauling the boats while walking alongside, were sometimes not as happy as they were supposed to be.
Fortunately the young ...more
Imagine Bertie Wooster and two pals and a fox terrier decide that to cure their general seediness and hypochondria, they will take a boat down the river Thames for a couple of weeks, camping out, cooking their own food and other wholesome entertainments. That is basically the tone and situation of this book. Laughed out loud at least once in every chapter.
Finsihed this last night. A fun read, I enjoyed the descriptions of the river being a boating person myself. I enjoyed the Victorian humor - I like "windows into past times". Glad I read it, chuckled once or twice. Definitely NOT a re-read candidate. Jerome's Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow was better, much more clever.
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This SHOULD have been my thing. It just wasn’t. In fact it was a coin toss as to which was more irritating–the ceaseless giggling of the on-air personality’s sidekick on the Christmas music radio station or this book. I wanted to laugh and enjoy it. I picked it for Saturday when I had a lot of fun holiday errands to run. I actually got off the highway, sat in a parking lot, and found North to Paradise in the dim reaches of my Audible account and loved listening to it instead. I eventually listen
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Fantastically funny book who's humour still holds up over a century later.
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Much fun initially but the humor fell flat for me after awhile.
