Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome Reviews

I’m sure you’ll already have heard of Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome. I’m sure you’ll have also heard how brilliant it is. Well, if you haven’t, let me tell you. If you have, let me tell you anyway. The narrator is a medical curiosity – when he reads the medical dictionary, he finds that he has every condition ever diagnosed – ...  Read the complete review

Three men, a boat, 1 dog, luggage, food, the river.............a perfect setting for much farce and antics which Jerome describes so well. Having decided that they were not well, indeed having refered to a medical dictionary decided that they were suffereing from all ailments except for housemaids knee, to which they took great offence and ...  Read the complete review

Take three wasters who love their food, and a drop to drink, much more than any kind of effort; who are hypochondriacs, mischief-makers, and inveterate liars (er, sorry, story-tellers). Make sure that they like to show off, philosophise, bicker, and pontificate, while being largely incompetent. Put them in a small boat with an angelic-looking but ...  Read the complete review

I bought this book at a jumble sale at thought that as it was a classic that I should read it. I am glad that I only paid about 20 pence for it. It seems innocent enough about three men going on a boot trip for a little sort of holiday. However, things never seem to go the way that it should, smoothly. The boot is only little rowboat ...  Read the complete review

'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 ...  Read the complete review

A book that can make you laugh out loud is without doubt a very rare, and a very good thing - and this is the only one that I can remember reading that has done so consistently. It is the tale of three young men - the author (J.), George and Harris, together with the dog, Montmorency - who decide, after a bout of sustained hypochondria, ...  Read the complete review