Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1) in Pick-a-Shelf

Dec 14, 2015 Joanna rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, 2016-read, rws-2016-winter

Librivox can be hit or miss, but this version (read by Nick Bulka) is excellent. Mr. Bulka did a truly professional quality job with the book, complete with certain singing passages and characterizations for the different voices. Overall, the book is a wonderful period piece that feels fresh even 135 years later. Very enjoyable British humor and humor of the A Confederacy of Dunces anti-hero sort. The book traces a boat trip of the three men -- Jerome, George, and Harris, along with the dog Mont ...more

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Jun 06, 2008 Nancy rated it really liked it

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that a book written during Victorian times was actually laugh-out-loud funny. It is not a serious work - Jerome K. Jerome rather embodies the earliest hysterical version of Murphy's law.

It is the tale of three working class gents taking a pleasant fortnight- long jaunt along the river Thames in search of rest and recreation. Along with the dog, Montmorency, the three start out with high hopes, but it doesn't always work out that way. Be prepared to be amus ...more

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Nov 26, 2009 Angela Randall is currently reading it · review of another edition

Shelves: 19th-century, free-ebook, ange-recommends, we-own, humour, i-own, literature, fiction, guardian-1000-best-novels, guardian-best-comedy

I did something very bad. I read this book while my kid was watching Pocoyo and realised that the background music actually fitted perfectly. Now I can't even look at this book without getting the Pocoyo music stuck in my head. But hey, it REALLY works. (You're welcome for that earworm) :) ...more

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Dec 14, 2018 Chris C rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Some of the stories were definitely worth a nice laugh, including the Uncle Podger chapter, washing George's shirt, and the proper amount of a fox-terrier's original sin but most of the writings were pretty full of dated humor. The author would go on for a while with a story and the punchline wasn't that humourous or insightful as it had been in the later part of the Victorian era.

Also the format of the book is a bit of a mess as well; it seems that it was supposed to have been a travelogue so ...more

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