Jerome K. Jerome’s ‘Three Men in a Boat’ was initially written to be a serious guide to boating and then has become recognised as a comedy regarding the failures of J, Harris and George in their attempt at a fortnight boating down the Thames. I however don’t think I learnt anything about boating down the Thames, not that I particularly intended to put it to use anyhow. It was however genuinely quite funny at points which I had doubt wether it would be or not. 

Jerome fills the book with various anecdotes about past trips and ranging from fly fishing to putting up pictures with limited success. The trio are generally a group of bumbling idiots struggling to get by on their river retreat. There was also a long anecdote about wandering graveyards and visiting tombstones, which the narrator states distaste toward (a slight attack given I have a habit for graveyard wandering).