Friday, 4 September 2015

Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K. Jerome



This is one of the few 19th century British books I’ve ever read. Or, now that I think about it, maybe the only one...

I ended up reading it for a series of fairly silly reasons: a friend of mine from Cambridge had re-enacted the journey with his dad and his brother, I could get the e-book for free, it was short and light-hearted, and there is always this thing of living in London and wanting to read British literature...

Expectations for this book were low, very low. However, it ended up exceeding those (which was, admittedly, rather easy). Much to my surprise, the book was still quite funny, which I think says a lot about a book that was published more than 120 years ago and is probably the greatest compliment I can give to Jerome’s work since, after all, there is not much else to say about this.


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