Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by
Jerome K Jerome
Old Books Are The Best Books
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, is a collection of humorous essays by
Jerome K. Jerome. It was the authors second published book and it helped
establish him as a leading English humorist.
Personal Review: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K
Jerome
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 of aunties and uncles who were
old fashioned and gracious, walks in the park and net curtains and butterfly
cakes and all those things that have long since passed away.
I think that ... perhaps I modelled myself on Jerome. There was something
splendid and sorrowful about a piece by Vaughan Williams that I heard
recently in the Proms, and I thought of this book, and how perhaps time
play tricks with us, not repeating those wonderful things of so ago, but the
odd resonance still appears, apparitions of all our prehistories.
This book IS funny and very clever - but I must warn you, gentle reader,
that it contains some of the most poignant and lovely imagery that I have
ever encountered, you will never be the same afterwards, and nothing at
all compares with his evocations of lost days, the gentle ghosts of boys he
knew playing in the fields, saucers of milk for beloved pets, the haunted
look of infants gazing into the infinite distance on house steps on villages
whose names have been consigned to forgetfulnesss.
It is profoundly beautiful, quite ridiculous in parts, very moving, often quite
melancholy, and shows evidence of a very lively, gentle and very
compassionate man.
In these arid and dusty days? Oh, don't even ask!
Absolutely and totally recommended.
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