Three Men in a Boat

Okay - final diagnosis using my new framework for reviewing audiobooks.

Three Men in a Boat - By Jerome K Jerome
Read - Martin Jarvis

Book - (5 or 1) In parts a classic of the English language. In parts turgid as hell.

Primary voice - (5/5) Martin Jarvis as ever does the upper class English toff to a tee. Its a testement to the man that he sounds practically identical in everything he does yet his narration makes me think of Jerome K Jerome rather than Martin Jarvis
Secondary voices - (2/5) On the whole unimportant for a book such as this. In fact generosity could lead you to class the complete lack of inspiration or differentiation between all secondary characters as deliberate. Three Men in a Boat is basically a written monologue so the simple cast makes the reading that bit more intimate. Still not wonderful.
Atmosphere (3/5) Keeps nicely to the atmosphere of the book. Of course that requires it to be tedious as hell and up its own fundament at times but I guess that can't really be helped.

Overall: 3/5 - The book is a 5 but that relies on the ability to easily skip the dull bits. This is a quality reading but that doesn't get around the fact that 3 out of 6 hours are just plain tedious. Interesting a first time round as illustration of just how weird and up their own back sides the Victorians were but still tedious.