Another random sale book I got online. This one was quite entertaining. It is a British book about British life written by a very dry and wry British author. Jerome details a trip down the Thames that three friends take over a few days. Perhaps details isn’t the right word – the narrator, J., rarely stays focused on the moment. In fact, the present only serves as a flashback-inducer for J. Most of the book is fragementary memory – where was I?
The beauty of this is that I read it in London, and actually passed by a few of the places mentioned in the book (see, tourists can make real connections through fiction).
Finished: 4/26/08
Pages: 197
Running Page Count: 5,925
April 30, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Pedantic perhaps but Three Men in a Boat is based on reality. The ‘three men’ actually did the journey down the Thames from London to Oxford and then Oxford to Reading – all rowed in a Victorian Camping Skiff. Written in 1889 – which you’d never believe when reading it as it’s a truly timeless piece of writing.
Check out http://www.threemeninaboat2008.blogspot.com/ where we’ll be rowing the same route shortly over a 7 day period.
J