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Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog (Tor Classics)
Jerome K. Jerome
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"I had the general symptoms, the chief among them being a disinclination to work of any kind."So begin the hilarious misadventures of a merry, but scandalously lazy band of well-to-do young men-and a plucky and rather world-weary fox terrier named Montmorency-on an idyllic cruise along the River Thames. Feeling seedy, muses one of them dreamily, "What we want is rest." What they find instead is one hapless catastrophe after another. Soggy weather, humiliating dunkings, the irritating behavior of small boats and the "contrariness of teakettles" are just a few of the barbarisms our genteel heroes are forced to endure. But which a delighted reader can only sing, Hooray!First published in 1889, Three Men in a Boat was an instant success, and Jerome has been compared to comic master P.G. Wodehouse.
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A marvel of British comedy, this story of a simple boating trip follows in the tradition of Oscar Wilde. In the late 19th century, three men pack food, clothes, and dog into a small boat built with character and charm (read: disaster in the making), then traverse the English countryside along the Thames, armed with their wits and a certain genteel ruthlessness.
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three men in a boat from the oxford bookworms library.......2007-05-04
I read this book about 10 years ago......and today I'm still laughing.
Jerome possessed very good comic timing, the story flowed naturally, the emotions and reaction of the 3 men were so real that I wish I was on the river and met them at that time! Somehow this book can teach us the importance of taking a break from our daily life.
I recently bought a copy from Amazon which was initialy meant as a gift for someone, but having a second thought, I decided to keep it as a precious reading companion for myself when I'm travelling.
Didn't age well.......2007-03-26
Jerome K. Jerome might have been a riot 100 years ago but this book will provoke only a rare smirk. The best bits belong to the dog who only seems to appear at the end of every third or fourth chapter to drop a one-liner. Other than that, it is aged, slow moving slapstick with some oddly out-of-place moments of reflection.
How anyone can call this a laugh riot boggles my mind.
Good reading of delightful novel.......2006-11-10
This is a very nice reading of one of my favorite humorous novels.
Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog.......2006-11-10
So very refreshing!!!!! Lots of laughs.
A comedic classic.......2006-09-25
I had put off reading this book for many years, and finally got to it.
The writing in this novel is simply superb. Jerome possesses a comic timing that most authors don't have and can simply never hope to have. He is able to weave in a history of the River Thames in with the bumblings of the three main characters and their dog, without hurting either major premise of the book.
The main reason to read this is because it will make you laugh. If it doesn't, you are not understanding it correctly.
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Jerome's comic masterpiece — and one of the best-known classics of English humor — follows the misadventures of 3 bungling, Victorian-era bachelors who take off on a rowing excursion up the Thames. Their disastrous struggles with camping equipment, meal preparation, and rampant hypochondria trumpet simple truths that still resonate today.
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To say nothing of the dog!.......2006-07-05
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...
Even though it was published more than a century ago, "Three Men in a Boat" remains as freshly humorous as when it was first published. While editor/playwright/author Jerome K. Jerome wrote a lot of other books, this book remains his most famous. And once you've read it, you'll see why.
Jerome's real talent is in finding humor in everyday things, like trying to erect a tent in the woods, getting seasick, or questioning whether it's safe to drink river water. Written in Jerome's dry, goofy prose, these little occurrances become immensely funny. One of the funniest parts of the book is when the boys listen to a fishermen telling of his prowess, only to accidently knock down his record-breaking stuffed fish.... and discover it's made out of plaster. Oops.
But Jerome takes a break from the humor near the end, when the boys find a drowned woman floating in the river. And here he becomes solemn and quietly compassionate: "She had sinned - some of us do now and then - and her family and friends, naturally shocked and indignant, had closed their doors against her."
But back on the funny stuff. The capstone on all this humor is the "three men." These guys are basically pampered Victorian aristocrats, who have a romantic yearning for the great outdoors. You'll be laughing at them and with them, as they struggle through the basics of boating and camping.
It's worth noting that the Digireads edition of this book is very good, with a flexible cover, extremely strong binding, and a nice reproduction with rather small print. Think "Dover Thrift," but of higher quality.
Funny, wacky and creepily true to life, "Three Men in a Boat" is an enduring comic classic in the vein of PG Wodehouse. Not to mention the dog!
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This comic classic, first published in 1889, is one of the most widely read and beloved works of British fiction. It has been translated into many languages. Ordinary circumstances turn hilarious as three friends journey up the Thames river with Montmorency, a small, naughty fox terrier.
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Three Men in a Boat (to Say Nothing of the Dog)
Jerome Klapka Jerome
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With illustrations by A. Frederics. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1889 edition by J. W. Arrowsmith; Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Bristol, London.
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Shipwrecked! When Captain Aubrey and his crew go aground on a remote island, they labor to construct a seaworthy schooner from the wreckage (taking breaks, of course, to play cricket.) Their subsequent adventures lead them to the dreaded penal colony at Botany Bay, and then, as always, back to sea.
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Shipwrecked on a remote island, Captain Jack Aubrey and the crew of the Diane fashion a schooner from the wreck, only to have their makeshift vessel burned in an attack by Malay pirates. Their escape from this predicament is one that only the ingenuity of Patrick OBrianor Stephen Maturincould devise. The dreadful penal colony in New South Wales, harrowingly described, is the backdrop to a diplomatic crisis provoked by Maturins Irish temper and to a near-fatal encounter with the wildlife of the Australian outback.
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Aubrey and Maturin escape shipwreck and head to Australia.......2007-09-14
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels continue to defy convention. In form and structure, the novels really aren't separate stories, but instead consist of separate episodes within a much larger narrative. While with most series of novels, the author builds each novel as a self-contained narrative, with each story building to its own particular climax. Not so with these novels, which often end on a point of minor transition but hardly the high point of the novel.
"The Nutmeg of Consolation" continues in this line. At the end of the last novel, "The Thirteen Gun Salute," Aubrey, Maturin, and the crew had been stranded on a proverbial desert island, populated only by pigs, ring-tailed monkeys, and birds. "Nutmeg," fittingly enough, opens with a game of cricket as if no time had passed from one novel to the next. The "first act" of "Nutmeg" sees the most action in the novel, as Aubrey's crew comes under attack by a numerically superior force of savages (O'Brian is hardly politically correct), led by a fierce warrior-queen. O'Brian writes thrilling battle scenes, and this is no exception.
Eventually Aubrey and Maturin return to civilization. In dire need of a ship are able to locate the titular Nutmeg of Consolation, a small Dutch ship that in physical appearance would be a mere sloop, but thanks to Aubrey's status as post-captain the Nutmeg qualifies as a frigate. Desperate to halt French progress in the area and eager to prove that the British rule the seas, Aubrey takes the Nutmeg out in pursuit of a much larger French ship. In a chase that spans for hundreds of miles, O'Brian gets plenty of opportunity to capture the daily life aboard ship as only he can.
This episode then gives way - after a joyous reunion with Tom Pullings - to a trip to Australia and Botany Bay. Here Maturin is able to indulge his whims as a naturalist, but not after getting himself and his crew into hot water with the local army forces by thrashing an army man in a duel. Aubrey features less prominently in this portion of the novel, thanks in large part to his taking of a double-dose of physic without Maturin's approval, and ending up much the worse for wear as a result.
"Nutmeg" is a wonderful book because the journeys and adventures develop at a slow pace. O'Brian allows himself the luxury of capturing the various details of 19th-century life in great detail, in all their humor and sadness. A throw-away tale about an encounter with polar bears is one of the most moving passages in all of O'Brian's works, and his description of Maturin's unfortunate encounter with a platypus is a wonder.
All that is to the good, but I must confess that I was a little hungry for more action by the end of the novel. This probably reflects more on me than on the book, but I look forward to return to a little more cannonfire and broadswords in the coming novels. But to be fair, this four-star rating would probably be a five-star if it had been written by somebody other than O'Brian - he has just set his personal bar so high.
great series of books.......2007-05-07
If you are interested in sailing, British naval history, or the high seas... then this is a great historical fiction series. The single movie doesn't really do justice to this excellent series of novels.
The Inaction Outweighs the Action.......2006-09-16
Who is Paulton and why did Maturin want to visit him? Who were the "men and women on the lists?" Who is Padeen and why is Maturin so particularly concerned about him? Is Padeen also known as Coleman? Why would O'Brien give us a hundred pages with nothing more than the sights, sounds, and smells of Botany Bay, unconnected to any story line? What did O'Brien feel he contributed to the story with the addition of the island children to the story? If the essence of the writer's craft is to create and maintain tension, to keep the reader riveted, to entertain, to inform, then even the most avid O'Brien fan must admit that The Nutmeg of Consolation falls short. I will admit that I found some of the Aussie argot amusing, as when we learn that "purple dromedaries" translates as "little, small, bungling pickpockets." But trudging through the final chapters alongside colorless protagonists, I am sure that the reader will be as happy as are the protagonists themselves by the prospect of returning home. This was the next to last book in the Aubrey-Maturin series, and I can't help suspecting that O'Brien's creative light had dimmed.
One of the most entertaining entries into the entire series.......2005-10-19
Although THE THIRTEEN GUN SALUTE was one of the least eventful books in the entire Aubrey-Maturin series, THE NUTMEG OF CONSOLATION is one of the most action filled. The books in the series are not, in the end, really about action, but it nonetheless can be a lot of fun when it takes place. The major incident in the previous novel had been the wrecking of the Diane on uncharted rocks near a remote island and the start of this one has the surviving crew members working hard to build a smaller vessel out of the remains of the Diane to sail to the nearest port. Instead, they find themselves under attack by pirates, led by a memorable female who briefly and seemingly befriends Maturin. Later, after being rescued by a Chinaman who comes to the island looking for the makings of birds nest soup, Jack and his crew take charge of the refitting of a Dutch vessel that had been sunk and salvaged that Jack renames The Nutmeg of Consolation. After a long chase of a French privateer and the reuniting with the Surprise, the rest of the novel focuses on a trip to Botany Bay, the novel ending suddenly after a near fatal encounter by Stephen with a male duckbilled platypus. All in all, it is an exceptionally satisfying novel, the only possible complaint that there is little time for the political or interpersonal interplay so fascinating in the other novels. Also, O'Brian, who delights in being not only a first-rate storyteller but a teacher and instructor, gets to do less of the latter here. Still, I can't imagine anyone failing to be thoroughly entertained by this fine novel.
Some reviewers complain that at this point in the series, it is beginning to get a little tired. I do not experience that, though I can acknowledge that the series here begins to struggle against the limitations that were set for it by O'Brian's having set it so late in the Napoleonic wars. O'Brian acknowledges in the preface to the series as a whole that he probably make an error by having Jack become a captain and commander at around the mid-point of the Napoleonic era. As a result, when the series was doing so well and the demand for additional books so great, he was sometimes hard pressed to come up with new twists. Also, the chronology ceases at some point to make much sense. Voyages that would actually take two years must, so that more stories can take place before the end of the Napoleonic wars, effectively take up no more than a few months. As a fan of the series, I am more than willing to suspend my disbelief in order to have a few more stories than ought to be possible squeezed it. It is, in the end, one of the few concessions that any reader has to make to the series, but it is a concession in a good cause.
Great as always but turning into chap books.......2004-07-09
The Nutmeg is as good as O'Brian gets in his writing, plotting, character development, sense of place and time, all the things that make a great great historical novelist.
Having said that, as others have noted, this would not be the book to start reading the Aubrey/Maturin books. It starts in mid story and ends much the same and would leave much to be desired for anyone who was to try to read it as a stand alone book which is why I marked it as four stars rather than five. (This is not true of all of the books in this series; many can be read on their own although all benefit from the reader knowing about what preceded the story being read.) Other than chronological order, there is no plot thread that holds this particular volume together as a book. Rather, this is more directly the second volume of at least a two volume book which started with The Thirteen Gun Salute.
Then again, this entire series could be thought of as a single 6000 page novel which, for those of us who love Aubrey, Maturin, Killick, Pullings and all the rest, nothing could be finer than a story that goes on and on.
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Great series continues to please.......2007-06-24
Shipwrecked Aubrey and crew beat back devious pirates, bargain passage back to where they signed the treaty they were trying to deliver to England, and Maturin gets long-awaited news from home. Granted, it is not as rich in battles, sailing strategy, and politics as the others in the series, but "It don't signify" as Aubrey and Maturin's thumping good series continues. I seldom reread books but Patrick O'Brian's are even better the second and third time.
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Shipwrecked! When Captain Aubrey and his crew go aground on a remote island, they labor to construct a seaworthy schooner from the wreckage (taking breaks, of course, to play cricket.) Their subsequent adventures lead them to the dreaded penal colony at Botany Bay, and then, as always, back to sea. Unabridged.
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The Nutmeg of Consolation
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