7. Three Men In a Boat

by Jerome K. Jerome (239 pgs)

rating: 3

Three friends, while discussing their imaginary ailments in a doctor's waiting room, decide that they should go on a boat trip up the Thames. They pack up and grab their fox terrier Montmorency and start boating up the river. This book is about the series of misadventures and musings that happened during the trip.

Three Men In a Boat defies reading quickly. Despite being only a little over 200 pages long it took me about week reading it on and off to get through it. The reason, I suspect, is that the writing style is more dense than I'm used to. For all that, however, I did enjoy reading it. There are parts that are very amusing. The anecdotes that the narrator recalls are often much funnier than the events of the plot. In any case, I'd recommend this to people who enjoy slow leisurely reads or vacation fiction.