Three men on the Bummel

Three men on the Bummel

1900 • 416 pages

Ratings11

Average rating3.2

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Three feckless young men take a rowing holiday on the Thames river in 1888.

Referenced by [Robert A. Heinlein][1] in [Have Spacesuit Will Travel][2] as Kip's father's favorite book. Inspired [To Say Nothing of the Dog][3] by [Connie Willis][4].


[1]: https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL28641A/Robert_A._Heinlein
[2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL59727W/Have_Space_Suit_Will_Travel
[3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14858398W/To_Say_Nothing_of_the_Dog_or_how_we_found_the_bishop's_bird_stump_at_last#about/about
[4]: https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL20934A/Connie_Willis


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Starts off well, meanders a bit too much in the middle. It made me laugh out loud, which is not something that happens too often with books. Oh also, I'm now terrified of travelling to Germany.

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