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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
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Fantastically funny and clever story of a university outsider that rides his scallywag luck to create a unexpectedly better life for himself.

Brilliantly written and read!

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This was a fun story of a young man's university job, and entanglements and relationships. in the end he betters his life. Well narrated. Made me laugh a few times.

A fun story

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What a wonderfully entertaining and amusing book! And superbly read, too. I laughed out loud many times. An absolute pleasure.

Highly amusing, brilliantly read

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Storyline is limited. Relationship based. The characters are interesting rather than endearing. But the writing is superb.

Superb writing

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Slow, predictable and generally uninspiring. Reviews suggested this book was good fun and a wholesome read - it was not.

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