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 unquestionably talented writers working today.
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"Easily one of my top books featuring time travel, only possibly beat out by other Connie Willis books featuring time travel. It's sort of like a Victorian murder mystery, only with less murder and more cats. Well paced, impeccably researched (as usual for Willis)and really quite funny. " — Kelsey (5 out of 5 stars)
"Easily one of my top books featuring time travel, only possibly beat out by other Connie Willis books featuring time travel. It's sort of like a Victorian murder mystery, only with less murder and more cats. Well paced, impeccably researched (as usual for Willis)and really quite funny. "
" A funny book which really is funny. There's a story too. "
" This was between a 3 and 4, a coin flip made it the lower number. Is that fair? It's what it is. "
" Enjoyed very much! will look for more of her books. I also have Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K Jerome which this books references. "
" Time traveling -- some good parts of the story but I got lost in the going back and forth. Interesting writing style, though, so I probably will check her other books out. "
" Great fun to read. Time travel, Victorian romance, detective themes, and speculation on the nature of free will thrown in just for fun! I can't wait to read more by this author. "
" This unexpected science fiction novel (set in the Victorian period!) promised a lot of cleverness and humour at the beginning, but I do find 493 pages of bishop-bird-stump-hunting and discussions of incongruities a little trying on the less-than-completely-irreverent soul. "
" Funny, enjoyable. To say nothing of the dog. I will look for more by this author. "
" One of my favorite books ever. "
" Hysterically funny and so brilliant it dazzles. "
" This was my first Connie Willis book. I really enjoyed the characters and the humor, although I was getting quite ready for a resolution by the end of it. Lots of witty banter and fun time travel. "
" The incredible thing is that Willis takes the same main idea from her Doomsday Book, a dramatic piece with hints of comedy, and turns it into a total farce here. "
" Wonderfully silly and intricate. Packed to the brim with literary and historical references(most of which fly over my head). Very funny and also, romantic! Impossible to put in a genre. Victorian Slapstick Sci-fi? "
" For too many pages into this book, I was wondering, "What is a bishop's bird stump and why should I care?" "
Connie Willis has won six Nebula and nine Hugo Awards—more than any other science fiction writer—and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for her first novel, Lincoln’s Dreams. Her novel Doomsday Book won both the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and her first short-story collection, Fire Watch, was a New York Times Notable Book.
Steven Crossley, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, has built a career on both sides of the Atlantic as an actor and audiobook narrator, for which he has won more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and been a nominee for the prestigious Audie Award. He is a member of the internationally renowned theater company Complicite and has appeared in numerous theater, television, film, and radio dramas.
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