by Jerome K. Jerome
1889
Three rather lackadaisical friends decide to take a boat trip down the
Thames, only to run into some rather amusing adventures. I liked this
book quite a bit. It started out incredibly funny, a laugh a line, then
became anecdotal, only slightly interesting to me. When Jerome started
adding in history factoids, seemingly just to show off, it got
tiresome. And he didn't follow up on the characters he established at
the beginning, just linked one story to another. However, though it
bordered on boring at times, the humor and stylish tone lasted. The
high-minded yet clueless tone of the narrator clearly influenced P.G.
Wodehouse's Bertie.
four stars
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