Positively pythonesque (Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome)

Member Name: moronboy

Product:	Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
Date:	26/09/00 (225 review reads)
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Advantages: Very very very funny

Disadvantages: None

'Three Men in a Boat' is so funny as to be painful to read. It's great that it got reissued with a modern cover (mine has the one pictured here) because it might get people's blinkers off about it being a classic and just introduce it as a superb work of comic fiction.

All of the characters are very well drawn, and the various encounters they have with rivergoers very funny, but what makes it is the worldly-wise, ironic tone that suffuses every page, the endless diversions and distractions which make even the simplest of moments take pages to actually describe (they take a good while to get into the boat). Think Blackadder, think Monty Python, think any comedy where a revelling in language and ideas shares space with pratfalls. And then read the book immediately.

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