My rant and rave page!

So it's January 2009 all over again for moi. Back to post one, luckily this time round I know some of you, yays! Although my page is a ghost town I am going to stick to what I've set out to do, and that is, blog
Right, so for lack of something uber exciting to share right now I think I'll talk about an author I'm currently enjoying, Jerome K Jerome. Heard of him? Well neither did I really until I searched google for the ''funniest books ever written'' and found his book Three Men in a Boat: To say nothing of the dog. So I read it and it was funny! It was written and published in 1889 or thereabouts but the english isn't complicated and hard to grasp as sometimes with Austen or Dickens. Like you don't have to read one sentence four times just to understand what the hell is going on!

The book is basically about three men, J, George and Harris, who decide to take a trip along the Thames river, yes in a boat, with the dog Montmorency, occasionally stopping off at different locations along the river. Their three hypochondriac bachelors that love eating and drinking and detest work of any kind. The book is laced with funny stories, their even funnier conversations and the antics they get up to.
Three Men on a Boat Quotes:
-''I cant sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do.''
-''That's Harris all over- so ready to take the burden of everything himself and put it on the backs of other people.''
-''Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said, when his mother-in-law died and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.''


His sequel to that book came eleven years later and is titled Three men on the Bummel and this time they are on a bicycle tour of Germany. I'm still reading this book but so far I think it's better than the first one. It's far more hilarious and his depictions of the Germans, although their a tad exaggerated, are so funny. There is no way that you will not enjoy his books. So if you're up for a read and looking for something comical give it a go.