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A review by chrisspeckwriter
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
5.0
My brother bought me this book when I first became a teacher. At that time, I was a young drunk and Lucky Jim seemed to be me - 'he could never smoke enough cigarettes in the day'. It also has the best description of a hangover ever written.
'A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad.'
'A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad.'