Evergreens: Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel : Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens) (Paperback)

from selkins

Amusing piffle about Brits at leisure (late 19th-cent.). I think Three Men on the Bummel is even better than the earlier and more famous Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog), but then I really loved the sections where the (English) men were practicing the (insulting/unlikely) English p...

from figre

There are words that have fallen out of disfavor. They have taken on the feel of age or mustiness or a sense that what was once a compliment has now turned into something less. One such word is "whimsy". We may get by with occasionally calling something whimsical. But if we say that something has...

from nillacat

Charming and funny, with occasional lovely passages, some lovely in spite of themselves, since he seems to want to make fun of the romantic streak that is apt to come out in even the most pedestrian people when faced with a pretty vista. And if you are honest with yourself, you will admit the man...

from shabacus

There are two books in this compilation, and I will review them individually. Three Men in a Boat is to the Victorian era what the works of P.G. Wodehouse are to the Edwardian. Very funny, in the understated British way, with a lot of comic juxtaposition of elevated language to describe mundane m...

from electrascaife

Three men go on a river journey. In a boat. Hilarity supposedly ensues. Apparently this is not the kind of humor I appreciate. I saw what he was trying to do and how he was trying to be funny, but it just came over as tedious and dull for me. *shrug*