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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Aug 1, 2002
Pros: Hilarious, breathtakingly, chokingly, funny philistinism in a provincial English university.
Cons: An over-reliance on the comedy of drunkenness
Summary: 'Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way; not for him the slow, gracious wandering from the halls of sleep. He lay sprawled, too wicked to move, spewed up like a broken spider-crab on the tarry shingle of the morning. The light did ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 15, 2003
Pros: Laugh out loud funny
Cons: British colloquialisms and reference points might be daunting for some
Summary: Kingsley Amis effortlessly skewers the sacred cow of academe in Lucky Jim (and paints a devastatingly accurate portrait of the life of a lecturer as well). He manages to make a teacher who doesn't care a surprisingly sympathetic character and deflates ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 30, 2000
Pros: Funny, insightful
Cons: Starts off slow
Summary: Kingsley Amis' "Lucky Jim" is a hilarious, picaresque novel. Reminiscent of Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces", the book is an entertaining story of a short time in the life of the main character, who continually gets into strange ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 28, 2000
Pros: Hilarious
Cons: Laughing out loud on public transport ;-(
Summary: Despite being written in the 50's and being the authors first work this is, without doubt, a classic. From beginning to end I found myself wrapped up the character of Lucky Jim (an ironic name in itself). Talking of irony not sure this book is entirely ... read more
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Rated Show by the Epinions community Nov 30, 2003
Pros: I see no pros at all to this boring novel. J/K
Cons: The bad thing about this book is that it sucks. TRUE!
Summary: In reading this exasperatingly slow novel... I came to realize just one thing. Although Amis's writing style is intelligible I knew I'd have to dig in if i wanted to ever finish this book. However, I did learn that this book is utterly terrible and I
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