Dovevo comprare un libro di questa collana come esercizio per le vacanze e la mia scelta è ricaduta su questo. Dalla trama può sembrare un libro stupido ma ne sono rimasto stupito. Ne avevo già letto uno spezzone in italiano e mi era sembrato un libro noioso, ma la versione in lingua originale (seppur semplificata) è di gran lunga migliore. La trama è piuttosto semplice ma le innumerevoli disavventure e la peculiarità con cui sono descritte rendono il libro avvincente (uno dei pochi con cui non mi è caduta la palpebra dopo due capitoli consecutivi) e dettagliato. Utile anche per scoprire cose nuove sulle città del Tamigi! Read more

I gifted this to my cousin brother on his birthday, and he was available to do his difficult task Read more

A very humorous tale of three people and their ride over the river Thames. Very fast delivery. Sturdy packaging enough. Read more

Good edition of Jerome K. Jerome classic Read more

I entered into THREE MEN IN A BOAT with the understanding that it was a laugh riot. At first I thought, yes it is witty in the extreme, but in places it is a tad Victorian cute, the forerunner of today's sitcoms and stand-up comics. The more I got into it, though, the more I appreciated it on many levels. Verdict: It is fresh stuff 115 years later, it is very funny, and it deserves classic, not backlist, status. THREE MEN IN A BOAT is classified as fiction but not for the usual reasons. Had it been written after 1995, say, it would have probably been called creative nonfiction. What Jerome did was to synthesize many occasions shared with his real life pals into a "travelogue" of a boating trip taken up the Thames, from Kingston into the Reading area. This premise offers up countless occasions for mishaps, which Jerome milks for all they are worth. In those moments in which something is not happening, he tells related stories, or performs a stand-up comic riff. As he and his mates pass landmarks along the river, he offers up historical information, colored of course with his views. Apparently, England lays claim to Elizabeth I being everywhere much as the eastern United States claims Washington slept in every town. It is ironic to read his sighs over modern life: if he only knew that urban sprawl had only begun and weather forecasting has not improved that much in a hundred years. In a positively clairvoyant moment, he presages the Antiques Roadshow mania of "2000 and odd" while speculating if the lowly implements and souvenirs of daily life would become the treasures of the future. The insights into Victorian preoccupations are priceless. Read more