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Lucky Jim

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Lucky Jim

By: Kingsley Amis
Narrated by: James Lailey
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Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons. As long as Jim can survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's, deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England' and resist Christine, the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch's awful son Bertrand.

©1953 Kingsley Amis (P)2020 Penguin Audio Classics Literature & Fiction Funny

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The women in the story were portrayed as childish and silly when in many cases they were clearly successful in their particular areas of expertise

Excellent reading

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I read Lucky Jim when I was young. It’s a delight, and lends itself so well to an Audiotreatment. Wonderful understated narration.

Gloriously funny

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This is well read, unfortunately it's incredibly boring. None of the characters are likeable and it's quite mysogenistic. The climax is quite funny, but not so much that it makes the rest of it worth it - I stuck with it for my book club but I wouldn't recommend.

Dull

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A moldern literrary classic. Have read the book several times over the years and never fail to laugh out loud - frequently. Although written in the 1950s much of it could be relevant today. An Audible classic too with a splendid performance that perfectly captures the voices and mannerisms of Jim Dixon and the book's other characters.


A Classic.

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Kingsley Amls...at his finest. A book to read annually.

If you always laugh out loud at the same parts that does suggest the writting remains fresh and the characterisation well drawn

My favorite book which always makes me laugh

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