Review: Lucky Jim
User Review - Nicholas During - GoodreadsNot sure exactly what to say about this book. At points it is very, very funny. It is also very well written—there are few authors who can get inside their protagonist minds and do it so well ... Read full review
Review: Lucky Jim
User Review - Chuck LoPresti - GoodreadsIt's easy to call a book funny and it's also easy to consider who is making the claim and use your own judgement to determine the value of such a statement. This very well might be the funniest book ... Read full review
Review: Lucky Jim
User Review - Mmars - GoodreadsEver been going along in your boring little way, doing what your do, when something hits your funny bone and you blurt out a laugh. And you, only you, would have found this thing that funny. This book ... Read full review
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User Review - K. Davies - GoodreadsI found it funny, hilarious at times, and beautifully written, and that's enough of a reason to read it, wonderful when you just want to escape anything serious. It seems to have caused ripples at the ... Read full review
Review: Lucky Jim
User Review - Sparrowfall - GoodreadsThis novel tells the story of a junior lecturer, Jim Dixon, as he attempts to secure his standing at the rural English university at which he teaches history. His strategy is to please Prof. Welch who ... Read full review
Review: Lucky Jim
User Review - Nicholas - GoodreadsSir Amis has a prose style that I can only describe as buttoned-up, stilted, ungenerous, ungiving and vehemently tight-arsed (a side effect, possibly, of his setting: The English academic institution ... Read full review
Review: Lucky Jim
User Review - Jacob - GoodreadsSatanic Rituals Desk, The New York Review of Books, New York: "TREMBLE, MORTAL! THOU HAS SUMMONED BELPHEGOR, LORD OF THE OPENING, PRINCE OF HELL. WHAT WOULDST THOU ASK OF THE DEMON OF DISCOVERY?" "Oh ... Read full review
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User Review - Ensiform - GoodreadsA history lecturer at a not-too-prestigious British university, Jim Dixon, is compelled to please his superior, the amiable but tedious Professor Welch. He is invited to medieval musical revivals ... Read full review
Review: Lucky Jim
User Review - Hazel - GoodreadsWell, this book was picked up as part of the humour club group read, otherwise I'd probably never have thought of reading it. I'm glad I did. Its not the laugh riot it proclaims to be, but that might ... Read full review
Review: Lucky Jim
User Review - Gareth Lewis - GoodreadsI just remember finishing this book and thinking to myself how wonderful it felt to finally have a literary hero. Jim Dixon is - if I remember correctly - a bitter and rather pathetic academic ... Read full review
