Not a fanAnd if British sense of humor is not your jam, then this book is going to be a really hard pill to swallow. And that's what happened to me. I didn't think it was funny.
To Say Nothing of the Dog (1997)
Others: Mixed Connie Willis' entertaining comedy inspired by Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog). Robert A. Heinlein mentioned the earlier work in Have Spacesuit will Travel as Kip's father's favorite.
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- 9781399617192
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- 495 pages
Genres: fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction
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