Just been alerted to the existence of this film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_46MGGVlIms - Had to tear myself away after 5 minutes to get some work done - but it looks wonderful.
Thanks to the once-great Powell's Books in Portland Oregon I discovered Jerome's Three Men in a Boat. They displayed it along side a newer book by Connie Willis called To Say Nothing of the Dog. I was advised by the very knowledgeable store clerk to read Jerome first. I read it on the plane back to the east coast and kept laughing out loud when everyone else was sleeping. Fortunately my seatmate turned out to be British and the two of us set up rather a din enjoying the book together. Connie Willis' To Say Nothing of the Dog I started when I got home and it's a marvel: a fitting time-traveling parallel journey on the Thames with a time-lagged time traveler and, of course, a dog who was probably too much a sweetheart to tackle Montmorency.
Also, I love the rant about provate properties and the 'do not enter' signs, very British. And of course trying to buy a pillow in Germany and actually asking for a 'kiss' instead, the German ladies go giddy... I need to re-read the books. Thank you for reminding me of this wonderful piece of literature!
Read both books as a teenager and they are indeed very funny. Trivia: the 'K' in the author's name stands for Lajos Kossuth, a 19. century Hungarian statesman and revolutionary.
Such a delicious comedy. I'm planning to write about favourite comic novels sometime and this has to be in my top 5 (if you count all Jeeves&Wooster as one).
Just been alerted to the existence of this film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_46MGGVlIms - Had to tear myself away after 5 minutes to get some work done - but it looks wonderful.
Thanks to the once-great Powell's Books in Portland Oregon I discovered Jerome's Three Men in a Boat. They displayed it along side a newer book by Connie Willis called To Say Nothing of the Dog. I was advised by the very knowledgeable store clerk to read Jerome first. I read it on the plane back to the east coast and kept laughing out loud when everyone else was sleeping. Fortunately my seatmate turned out to be British and the two of us set up rather a din enjoying the book together. Connie Willis' To Say Nothing of the Dog I started when I got home and it's a marvel: a fitting time-traveling parallel journey on the Thames with a time-lagged time traveler and, of course, a dog who was probably too much a sweetheart to tackle Montmorency.
Also, I love the rant about provate properties and the 'do not enter' signs, very British. And of course trying to buy a pillow in Germany and actually asking for a 'kiss' instead, the German ladies go giddy... I need to re-read the books. Thank you for reminding me of this wonderful piece of literature!
Read both books as a teenager and they are indeed very funny. Trivia: the 'K' in the author's name stands for Lajos Kossuth, a 19. century Hungarian statesman and revolutionary.
Great trivia. Thank you. I had no idea
Its the sections about the cheese, hangjng a picture, and the melancholy suicide that I return to. Beautifully writtem
The cheese! 😂
Such a delicious comedy. I'm planning to write about favourite comic novels sometime and this has to be in my top 5 (if you count all Jeeves&Wooster as one).