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Lucky Jim (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) (Paperback)

by Kingsley Amis (Author), David Lodge (Author)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (13 April 1992)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140186301
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140186307
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 315,213 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In his send-up of the academic world, the author poked fun at the British way of life, and gave post-war fiction a new and enduring figure to laugh at.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Shipbuilding Techniques, 24 Mar 2006
Writing in response to other reviews really. The humour isn't dated or gentle - the character studies (because that's what they are I think) of Professor Welch and Margaret are among the best and nastiest things Amis wrote.

Diabolical ending? Can't understand what was meant by that, and I think someone might need a dictionary. It's a HAPPY ending certainly, and, as I think about it, also very funny. Amis says somewhere in the letters that the novel was meant to "comic, not cosmic", and I think that would be well borne in mind, perhaps especially where the ending is concerned. Don't keep wondering what it all might mean, or what the novel's social impact would have been in the 50s.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Amusing enough- absolutely diabolical ending, 29 Jan 2003
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There is a strong sense of the meanings of relations between people in this book and very little really happens otherwise. When I try to remember the storyline it is eclipsed by Malcolm Bradbury's Eating People Is Wrong, which is similar to Lucky Jim but far superior and much more funny.
Amis has written a readable book that is interesting in places and will appeal to middle-aged readers more than young. Unfortunately the book sufferers from a lack of plot and has possibly one of the most anti-climatic endings in the history of literature.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Jolly Farce, 4 Sep 2008
Perhaps it was a classic and real scream to read this novel when first published in 1954. It is a jolly farce which has not really withstood the test of time and only seems slightly funny these days. The erosion of years has not however worn away its literary merit. `Lucky Jim', knocks the socks off some of today's supposedly humour tagged excuses and so called contemporary masterpieces. Shine on this crazy diamond.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Amusing enough- absolutely diabolical ending
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3.0 out of 5 stars Amusing enough- absolutely diabolical ending
There is a strong sense of the meanings of relations between people in this book and very little really happens otherwise. Read more
Published on 29 Jan 2003 by lexi_wades

3.0 out of 5 stars Amusing enough- absolutely diabolical ending
There is a strong sense of the meanings of relations between people in this book and very little really happens otherwise. Read more
Published on 29 Jan 2003 by lexi_wades

3.0 out of 5 stars Amusing enough- absolutely diabolical ending
There is a strong sense of the meanings of relations between people in this book and very little really happens otherwise. Read more
Published on 29 Jan 2003 by lexi_wades

3.0 out of 5 stars Amusing enough- absolutely diabolical ending
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