Product Description: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the author's second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist.
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Rating: - Completely Happy!
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Rating: - Idle thoughts of a genius
When most people say "God bless the clowns" they could hardly think of Jerome, and yet...
In this book are some of the funniest things I think that have ever been written at all, ever. I encountered this book in my Dad's collection when I was eleven and I am sure that I spent that summer long ago utterly entranced. There is nothing here that is an obscurity of a hundred years ago, it's all fresh and invigorating, though there are many strange things, almost forgotten; luminescent memories ... Read More
Rating: - Spontaneous Grins and Irrepressible Guffaws
Jerome K Jerome is a treasure from the past. This ranging monologue keeps surprising the listener with entertaining insights that can still zing one with the ring of truth, and boggle one with bawdy attitudes that reflect an altogether different age. Warning: some chapters may "scandalize" an uptight PC prude. LOL!
Rating: - Fun read
This book is funny but slightly mysoginistic. Jerome has a unique skill at human observations but not all of the essays are evenly readable. There were two or three that were very uncomfortable and bitter. Still overall its a great read.
Rating: - Humorous,Witty and Thought-provoking
In English literature,humour is always a tame but sharp instrument to get at things which otherwise be poisons to be consumed by a body. over the depths of time,writers have forever employed the various designs of humour and subtle sarcasms to dart their disdain at the numerous worrying sides of the socirty. In "Pride and Prejudice" for instance,Jane Austen pokes at the gentry stratum in an overtone of hilarisity and witty ironies. a compatible mechanism is employed by Mark Twain in "The Adventures of ... Read More
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