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Some time soon I am going to have to re-read Jerome K. Jerome’s marvelously evocative Victorian comedy ‘Three Men in a Boat’. I admit is has been many years since I had the pleasure of reading it last – but I quite obviously missed something on all previous readings, and now, thanks to my wife, her iPod and the iTunes site, I am curious.
She decided to download a book from the iTunes store – really as an experiment to see if she liked listening and being read to – and the book she chose was the Jerome classic.
On visiting the site the next day she saw that it does the same sort of thing that Amazon does – make recommendations based on your recent book purchase coupled with items other people chose who also bought your book. It came as quite a surprise to both us us that the recommended book for people who bought ‘Three Men in a Boat’ was a volume of erotic short stories! And this is an aspect of Jerome K. Jerome I had entirely missed.
If you’re interested in tangents to Jerome’s work, you should read Connie Willis’ To Say Nothing of the Dog, an excellent sci-fi time-travel comedy book.
Hey thank you… I’ll put it on my shopping list.