Three Men in a Boat

(To Say Nothing of the Dog)

By: Jerome K. Jerome

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher's summary

If you've never read anything by Jerome K. Jerome, you'd be well advised to heed this warning by the Glasgow Herald: "It would be dangerous to [listen to] this book in any place - - say a full railway compartment - - where the reader was not at perfect liberty to laugh as loudly and as long as he chose." The passage of time has not altered that verdict. Here is a perfect picture of those lazy summer days "messing about in boats."

After his final trip up the river Thames with his three companions - - Harris, George, and Montmorency the dog - - Jerome K. Jerome sat down to write his proposed book, The Story of the Thames. But before he could tackle the work in the serious manner intended, his humor took over and gave birth to a masterpiece of unquenchable comedy. This is a classic of English humor, justifiably loved around the world.

©2006 Jerome K. Jerome (P)1991 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Absolutely delightful!

This book deserves its well earned reputation as one of the funniest books ever written. If you like Jeeves and Wooster (Wodehouse) you will love this one. Think of 3 Woosters plus a dog and no Jeeves on a boat for 2 weeks…
What could possibly go wrong….

Great narration

The first few times I read this book, I found parts exceptionally funny. It can be hard to recapture this as the surprise is no longer there. I found with this particular narration with the tones of the voices and the pacing of the reading, it took me back into the story and I found myself smiling and amused again.

I realise old English humour is not to everyone's taste, but I think this book is a rare gem for its tales and observations of people, and possibly of characters that you may recognise from your own circle of friends. Delightful and charming. We could do with more of these in the world!

An absolute gem of a book!

When I first saw this book, it came with the advice that one should not read it if one were in a place where sudden fits of uncontrollable laughter were frowned upon. What good advice that was. The story is an absolute stitch and the narrator perfect for it. I most heartily recommend it.

Jarring Anachronisms Aside, Pure Hilarity

I knew it was supposed to be a funny book, but I had no idea the hilarity would "keep" all these decades later. I literally chuckled and laughed aloud at several points.

There was one casual racial epithet that really took me out of the book for a minute, but other than that the satirical misadeventures of three fairly horrible hypocrites (and their dog) are pure fun all the way through.

hmmm

struggled to finish. I think I missed the point of the book. all I remember is people eating and struggling to cook proper food.

Brilliant English humor at it’s best! Okay

This was a favorite book of my English mother’s. (Born 1910.). I found it, finally, in 1965 after a long search by letters to American bookshops. I always got the feeling that she was a little sweeter to me after I presented it to her on the occasion of her fifty-fifth birthday. I don’t know how many times she read it before I got to borrow it in 1971. I think I even felt a little sweeter on her because I recognized her own sense of humor in Jerome’s story. It is brilliantly funny in an old English sense. She, and later this story, are the foundation of my own humor. When she died in 1977 the book came back to me. It’s one of my most treasured possessions.
The reader of of this story speaks it exactly as I hear it in my mind. I’m so pleased to have found it in your audible library. Thank you for a wonderful time.

Hilarious comedic adventure!

So funny! Very witty with lot's unexpected stories within the main story of aristocratics on a riverboat excursion.

A Classic for a Reason

This is one of those books that you find authors referring to in the oddest places. After reading... or rather listen to...Connie Willis' "to Say nothing of the Dog" I was excited to see this in Audible. Now I will have to go back and re-listen to Willis's book.

The humor is so dry and so very British. You can see the the influence of this book on so many of the great British humorists of the modern day.

The author occasionally drifts in his descriptions but you will still want to reserve a seat on a boat on the Thames. A delightful listen to escape the commute.

Excellent story and narration.

The book is a classic and a fun read. The narrator did a splendid job if bringing different characters to life.

Really fun

Once I understood that the book was to be more of an anecdotal nature throughout, I really enjoyed the quips, the satire and whatever else Jerome throw at the reader in what is deservedly a well-beloved classic.