by Jerome K. Jerome
Possibly the funniest thing I've ever read. Reminds me of a 19th Century Bill Bryson.
Short, hilarious read. You won't learn anything or change your world views, but it's well written and highly entertaining.
This is the zenith, the summit, the highest peak reached by a certain kind of British humour I like. Those who are keen of PG Wodehouse may object a couple of things to this remark and probably they have their point: the thing is that I never read anything by Wodehouse (by the way: from which book s...
"A 'Bummel'," I explained, "I should describe as a journey, long or short, without an end; the only thing regulating it being the necessity of getting back within a given time to the point from which one started…... But long or short, but here or there, our thoughts are ever on the running of the sa...
The threesome set out on a Victorian era cycling adventure in Germany. Sequel to Three Men in a Boat, read by Hugh Laurie.Broadcast on:BBC Radio 7, 2:30pm Monday 22nd March 2010I found the closing musings on socialism as embraced by the Germans at the end of the 1800's rather interesting.