[ebooktalk] Re: Three Men In A Boat
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
- To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 18:22:31 +0100
Two radio memories associated with this book One was Jeremy Nicholas's one-man
show of it. The other, and for me much better was an attempt by Johnny Morris
and his chum Tubby foster to recreate the voyage. I remember their dog was
extremely enthusiastic and had a Spanish accent.
On 2 Jul 2013, at 11:55, Trish Talbot wrote:
> Clare, I remember that we read this book in our English class, and the whole
> form were in hysterics! Elaine Owens was trying to read aloud, and couldn't
> do it for laughing. Unfortunately, though, the humour tapers off about
> halfway through and the author just goes into descriptive passages about the
> thames which, after the humour in the first half, are just dull and boring. I
> don't think we read the whole thing at school, but I've read it subsequently
> and was very disappointed.
>
> Trish.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clare Gailans" <cgailans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 11:09 AM
> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: MY BOOKS OF MY LIFE TODAY
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>> Steve, I love Diary of a Nobody too, though I think my favourite humorous
>> book (many leave me cold) is Three Men in a Boat. This was by far my
>> favourite book read in English classes at school, though if I remember
>> rightly the humour passed most of my form-mates by.
>> We might be able to help you with the drama of Bomber. Voldi bought the
>> tapes for me, as we missed it at the time it was broadcast in real time. We
>> listened to it over a may bank holiday week-end, and I didn't know the book
>> at the time, so it made a huge impression on me. It was so harrowing, and so
>> realistically produced, that I could feel my stomach going into knots as
>> though I was up there with them. When I eventually read the book, it didn't
>> quite match up, though of course there were more incidents and more
>> background to the characters, and it wasn't interspersed with interviews
>> with former fighter pilots. Clare
>>
>>
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