To say nothing about the dog

[Spriggan]

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[Peter Ahlstrom]

I should try to read this again someday, but I need to get a copy with non-muddy print. I can't read books with unclear type anymore, like the version of this I got from the BYU library long ago.

I liked half of Doomsday Book--every other chapter (the ones in the past). I didn't like any of the characters in the present-day part. They were all really annoying to me.

[Nessa]

Yes, DOOMSDAY BOOK was frustrating in part because the present-day people were so clueless and irrational, so it felt like she stretched that part out more than was necessary, just so it would flow with the past-storyline. But it all resolves well at the end, I thought, and got less frustrating.

By the way, I should have mentioned that the title, NO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG is a nod to the Jerome K. Jerome book THREE MEN AND A BOAT: TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG, which was written during the same time period that Ned was in when he was in Victorian England. It's supposedly a very funny book, but I haven't read it.

[Pink Bunkadoo]

I particularly liked the bit where he says that the reason the Victorians were so repressed was because they couldn't move without knocking something over.

[Nessa]

Ned's comments were pretty funny all around. Victorians were repressed because they have all this ridiculous stuff crammed into their rooms. Yeah. Makes one wonder...

[Sigyn]

I love this book, and the Jerome K. Jerome book it references is quite funny as well.  It's kind of the same humor you get in Wodehouse or Gilbert and Sullivan.