That is why we crowd into the towns and cities, and the country grows more and more deserted every year. We are creatures of the sun, we men and women.Will the prized treasures of today always be the cheap trifles of the day before?.Jerome has predicted these little events with a precision worthy of praise. In the midst of all the humor, he has levelheaded statements that you can hardly ignore as novel continuity. and his two friends George and Harris decided to go on a little boat trip, Three Men in a Boat is a hilarious novel that deserves its place on that list I was talking about earlier. There isn’t a single moment where you feel disconnected or tired of the narrative.Īn account of how the narrator J. Almost every page leaves you in splits, resonating even after 128 years of it being published.

And Jerome’s narrative is so humorous, it puts modern humor to shame. Unlike novels of those times, this one, maybe because its characters are based on real-life characters (the author and his two friends), is so much more relatable. But Three Men in a Boat isn’t one of them. There are novels that try to be humorous, that try to be a type of funny that crawls up on you. Now, both eyebrows are scrunched as I laugh great tear-inducing jerks of laughter. But it was when I picked it up and started reading it that I truly understood why it was getting the footage it was getting. I had thought that the book was grossly overhyped. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat on a list of most humorous novels and being so widely appreciated, a skeptical eyebrow went up automatically.

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome