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To Say Nothing of the Dog

Or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last

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To Say Nothing of the Dog

Auteur(s): Connie Willis
Narrateur(s): Steven Crossley
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 Connie Willis' Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Doomsday Book uses time travel for a serious look at how people connect with each other. In this Hugo-winning companion to that novel, she offers a completely different kind of time travel adventure: a delightful romantic comedy that pays hilarious homage to Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat.

When too many jumps back to 1940 leave 21st century Oxford history student Ned Henry exhausted, a relaxing trip to Victorian England seems the perfect solution. But complexities like recalcitrant rowboats, missing cats, and love at first sight make Ned's holiday anything but restful - to say nothing of the way hideous pieces of Victorian art can jeopardize the entire course of history.

Delightfully aided by the perfect comedic timing of narrator Steven Crossley, To Say Nothing of the Dog shows once again why Connie Willis is one of the most talented writers working today.

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  • Hugo Award, Best Novel, 1999

"Willis effortlessly juggles comedy of manners, chaos theory and a wide range of literary allusions [with a] near flawlessness of plot, character and prose." (Publishers Weekly)
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a steadily growing tale, a Victorian classic with mysteries to solve, missions to save the timeline, hinted truths of a grand design, and a romantic end.

an entertaining mystery spanning time and space.

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This might be my favorite book of all time. I keep listening to it over and over.

Hilarious, creative, educational

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Loved the story, Willis has a great sense of humour and a wonderful imagination. I’m looking forward to listening to another Willis book soon.

Wonderful

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This book has a lot in it, plenty of character development and explanation as to every little detail of what's going on.

What it IS missing is any real sense that anything is actually happening. Its a sort of adventure where instead of it being crazy and heart racing, it's slow and methodical, it almost feels as though it wasted a lot of time getting to the point, though.

Granted, I listened to every minute of it and it had me enthralled at every part, even skipping back when I knew I missed a few words here and there, I'll owe that to the Narrator's excellent storytelling during.

I would recommend it, for sure, but don't expect it to be the type of story that pulls you in and holds you close, 'page by page' if it were. it's a slow, breathing universe and it guides you in slowly and methodically.

Interesting and slow book

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I know I am in the minority but I hated this book. 3/4 of this book is a painfully boring 'novel of manners' and the final 1/4 is a frustrating mystery novel. At the end I just wanted to punch the main character in the face. Hated all the characters and the 'goal' was one of the stupidest quests ever put in novel form. The only amusing part was finding out who 'mr C' was. This has just the thinnest veneer of science fiction.

painfully boring

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