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From: Citizen Gloucestershire, The
Date: 20071128
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One of my favourite books of all time is Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat. I've read it many times, but it still makes me laugh out loud every time I do so, and you can't say that about many books. It would make a great Christmas present for someone who has never had the pleasure before.

One of my favourite passages concerns the occasion when the narrator is given a medical encyclopaedia.

He dips into it and finds that he has the symptoms of the first disease he comes across.

Eventually, he reads the thing from cover to cover and discovers he has every disease in the book - except ...

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