Three Men in a Boat regularly had me looking away from the book, laying back in bed, and laughing uncontrollably. It's full of moments shared between the author and reader, where both are in on a joke in which the characters are blissfully unaware they are playing a part.

At times Jerome produces some magical scenes which are deeply touching and emotional, all the more so for being closely bound to fine humour. Although very easy to read, I would not say this was mere fluff. The world is a little better for the existence of this book.

Unfortunately, I found Three Men on a Bummel comparatively dry. It still has moments of humour that can be found in the first book, but takes a more serious view overall and to me was less satisfying in its plot and characters.
I did find the portrayal of life in Germany before either of the major 20th century conflicts interesting.

Si sa, i vittoriani amarono l'humor e umoristi furono, seppur con sfumature e modi diversi, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Anthony Trollope. Scritto in modo garbato e limpido, Tre uomini in barca racconta dei preparativi per un viaggio tra amici, Tamigi - Oxford, un cane, una gita in barca per allontanarsi dallo stress della civiltà ed infine il rientro furtivo.

È un testo che nonostante l'età si mantiene d'umorismo giovane e frizzante, "barcamenandosi" tra le contraddizioni della vita umana stessa, il sensazionale umorismo e l'impareggiabile buonsenso nel far risaltare sempre e comunque il lato comico della vita.

This is heralded as one of the classics of English literature in Turkmen textbooks. Turkmen children will ask you if you've heard of it, they'll write essays about how they like to read it (baldfaced lies), and some will be genuinely confused if you don't list Jerome K. Jerome as one of your favorite authors. All this in spite of the fact that not only has no one in Turkmenistan ever read Three Men in a Boat, virtually no one in the entire English-speaking world has either. At some point a Soviet or Turkmen education minister must've arbitrarily decided this was one of the greatest works in English literature, and now it's just common (Turkmen) wisdom about English, and can't be changed now.

Some fellow PCVs sent me a copy -- together with the sequel (?) Three Men on the Bummel -- around New Year's. I look forward to seeing what all the absolutely baseless fuss was about.

Won this as a prize at school, though I can't imagine why my teachers chose it for me. Perhaps it was a hint that I should lighten up a bit?

There is such natural comedy in this book that it makes you laugh out loud (even when in public, much to my embarrassment!).
There is nothing forceful or overdone about his humor. Jerome K. Jerome takes up some mundane events and adds to them some seriously hilarious angles (pun intended).
You sometimes relate to the situations he describes, but are struck by the way he describes it. This book speaks volumes of his wit.

3 Men in a Boat describes the journey of 3 British men up the river Thames on a boat with a dog that most definitely has a halo above its head.
3 men on the Bummel is based on a cycle trip of the same 3 men in Germany, minus the dog.

I must say I liked the boat expedition better, but its fun to read them both
and I would definitely recommend it to all!

Three Men in a Boat- 5 stars
Three Men on the Bummel- 5 stars

I loved both of these books. Both books were brilliant.

I read Three Men in a Boat, to Say Nothing of the Dog because I was going to read Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog and wanted to know what the relation was. Three Men … is the story of three friends and a dog on a boat trip up the Thames from Kingston to Oxford, To Say Nothing … incorporates a boat trip up the Thames made by three men and a dog and dwells on the same types of small annoyances of boating and any endeavor (such as packing) and uses the same tone of muddling through with understatement always at the ready to say nothing of the frequent diversions that leads one to understand that arriving at the destination is not the point of the novel but traveling to it is.

While I found Three Men … to be amusing in small doses, an entire novel of these fops' shenanigans was a bit much. So much so that I must confess I skipped from page 115 to 158 just in time for the not-at-all surprising finish on page 160 (with a bit of a skim for the photograph business with the nose of the boat around page 148).

I don't think I shall read Three Men on the Bummel, the sequel, as I'm sure it features more of the same. But, who knows, if I'm ever in the mood for some amusing understated fluff, I might dip into it for a score or two of pages.

Top class British humour withstanding time. Minus some offensive jokes



This book is a collection of two very similar novels:

In Three Men in a Boat, three friends (and a humanised dog) decide to benefit from the opening of the river Thames to the public at the end of the 19th century and embark on a boat trip on their own.

Still, if the book had limited to telling this journey, it would have been nothing but boring. Jerome K. Jerome's prose describes much more than a boat trip: it is a humorous portrait of Victorian society, reading which the reader can only laugh and keep laughing.

In Three Men on the Bummel the same three friends (without the dog), two of which married in the meanwhile, go on a bummel (“a journey without an end”) through Germany. The humour shapes again this journey but some prejudices against women and German people also occur (not of the humorous kind) and might sometimes result in offensive generalizations to the modern understanding.

The novel is, however, typical of the British humour and should be taken as a satire towards society and travelling in general.

i don’t know why this took me absolutely forever to read. it’s really hilarious and i love the annotations very much. 10/10
harking back to a time where books did not need plots and there were no world wars

I love historical events like this.
Boats and historical events are what make me love reading. Could you please share the sequel books of your series?

In fact, even though I started reading very late, I'm getting more and more immersed every day.

It is a great chance to read the books of important authors. I know that. I'm looking forward to your new books.

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There were two books in this edition. The first, Three Men in a Boat was amusing in a Monty Python sort of way. The second, Three Men on the Bummel was not as entertaining, although it did have some interesting British/Victorian views on Germany (before the FIrst World War).

Some parts of this book (these books) are still immensely funny. Some passages on Germany are positively eerie. And then you get slapped in the face with the n-word and people throwing stones at dogs and kicking them and so on, all in good fun, and I suppose there are people who can distance themselves from both of this things sufficiently to enjoy the whole text but I simply can't.