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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local…
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This is one of those books that makes me wish I could have met its author, Jerome K. Jerome.
To me, he is proof that humor can be timeless, and that very often it is only the lightest covering for a deep and truthful way of looking at life. I love his attention to detail, his fussiness, his very personal sense of what matters and what does not, his affection for nature, and the unmistakable Britishness of the whole thing.
Most of all, I love the way the book turns life's inconveniences into something worth observing and laughing at. The…
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