Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)
1889
- humorous stories
- male friendship
- description and travel
- humor (fiction)
- boats and boating
- fiction
- classic literature
- english humorous stories
- history
- general
The story
Three feckless young men take a rowing holiday on the Thames river in 1888. Referenced by [Robert A. Heinlein][1] in [Have Spacesuit Will Travel][2] as Kip's father's favorite book. Inspired [To Say Nothing of the Dog][3] by [Connie Willis][4]. [1]: https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL28641A/Robert_A._Heinlein [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL59727W/Have_Space_Suit_Will_Travel [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14858398W/To_Say_Nothing_of_the_Dog_or_how_we_found_the_bishop's_bird_stump_at_last#about/about [4]: https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL20934A/Connie_Willis
What it’s like
Sunlit river idleness and a steady drift of comic digression: a cozy, good-natured book that reads like a long afternoon on the water with three friends who cannot be trusted with a tin of soup. The voice is brisk, chatty and self-deprecating, full of sudden detours into history, tea, tow-paths and the stubbornness of locks, with the Thames rendered in lazy reeds, weeping willows, picnic hampers and rain-swollen evenings at riverside inns. Its pace is loose and episodic, a sequence of small mishaps and digressions rather than any driving story, so it suits a rainy Sunday, a bedtime chapter, or a slow read on a train. Emotionally it is warm and light, with no real menace and no violence, only pratfalls, bickering and gentle absurdity; the sensibility is Victorian in its manners but thoroughly modern in its wit. It is for readers who want affectionate laughter, gentle nostalgia for English summers, and the company of likeable, hapless friends.
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