false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174415350m/395182.jpg 395182 27 876732 book 1953 Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics) total:1878|5:583|4:759|3:392|2:117|1:27| 1878 7388 2952 318 95289 0670000353 9780670000357 5 2 3.93 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95289.Lucky_Jim 3 3 false Mon Dec 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Aug 02 11:42:15 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 22 07:12:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 395182 0140186301 9780140186307 1622 267 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174415350m/395182.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395182.Lucky_Jim 5 3 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1967 Sun Sep 09 05:43:58 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 09 09:40:18 -0700 2007 more...]]> 395182 0140186301 9780140186307 1622 267 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174415350m/395182.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395182.Lucky_Jim 4 2 false Thu Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 14:49:58 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 07 14:51:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 395182 0140186301 9780140186307 1622 267 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174415350m/395182.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395182.Lucky_Jim 5 3 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 11:30:34 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 11:38:40 -0800 2009 more...]]> 395182 0140186301 9780140186307 1622 267 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174415350m/395182.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395182.Lucky_Jim 4 1 false Wed Dec 26 17:23:39 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 26 17:35:36 -0800 2007 more...]]> 395182 0140186301 9780140186307 1622 267 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174415350m/395182.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395182.Lucky_Jim 5 1 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 08:37:32 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 08:56:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> 395182 0140186301 9780140186307 1622 267 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174415350m/395182.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395182.Lucky_Jim 4 1 false Fri Mar 14 08:07:23 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 14 08:24:01 -0700 2008 Lucky Jim made me want to stay awake in class or on the bus or wherever it was I went with him. I tried reading mo...more...]]> 95287 0141182598 9780141182599 59 8 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1258000204m/95287.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95287.Lucky_Jim 5 0 false Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 09:53:39 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 07:33:39 -0800 2009 The ultimate bachelor book that made me laugh out loud from begging to end, i really couldnt put this down.
The story runs around the life of Jim Dixon, an intern at a polytechnic university. He is young, wistful, a drinking, smoking kind of guy...more...]]> 395182 0140186301 9780140186307 1622 267 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174415350m/395182.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395182.Lucky_Jim 4 0 false Fri Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 14:03:12 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 16:21:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 395182 0140186301 9780140186307 1622 267 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174415350m/395182.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395182.Lucky_Jim 2 0 false Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 11:26:30 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 11:33:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 395182 0140186301 9780140186307 1622 267 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174415350m/395182.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395182.Lucky_Jim 4 1 false Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 15:12:23 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 20:05:50 -0700 2009 Lucky Jim is an acerbic, witty, biting satire of British red brick college life in the nineteen-fifties. The war is over & all the survivors are back to figure out what to do next. Our hero is teaching history (sort of) in a British college that is decidedly not Oxbridge & trying to stay employed....more...]]> 395182 0140186301 9780140186307 1622 267 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174415350m/395182.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395182.Lucky_Jim 4 0 false Tue May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 09:34:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 08:46:21 -0700 2009
Jim's woes are many and typical of academia: his position at the university is shaky, his advisor has difficulty remembering his name, his research for a lectur...more...]]> 395182 0140186301 9780140186307 1622 267 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174415350m/395182.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395182.Lucky_Jim 4 1 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Apr 13 20:51:58 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 13 20:53:18 -0700 2007
This book was laugh-out-loud funny. It captured the absurdity of academic politics beautifully, and I could totally relate to some of the stupid things (phone pranks, sneaking out of parties) that t...more...]]> 395182 0140186301 9780140186307 1622 267 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174415350m/395182.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395182.Lucky_Jim 5 1 false Sun Aug 03 18:50:23 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 18:52:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 395182 0140186301 9780140186307 1622 267 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174415350m/395182.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395182.Lucky_Jim 5 1 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Sat Jul 07 11:07:32 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 23:52:21 -0800 2009 95288 0140016481 9780140016482 127 27 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171300641m/95288.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95288.Lucky_Jim 2 1 false Fri Mar 23 23:54:22 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 17:01:39 -0800 2009 4225191 4 2 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218951514m/4225191.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4225191.Lucky_Jim 4 0 false Fri Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 11:39:52 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 11:43:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 95288 0140016481 9780140016482 127 27 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171300641m/95288.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95288.Lucky_Jim 3 0 false Fri Feb 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 31 18:11:03 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 13 16:53:20 -0800 2009
An occasionally very funny book about James "Jim" Dixon, an incongruously positioned lecturer at a British college, ...more...]]> 95288 0140016481 9780140016482 127 27 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171300641m/95288.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95288.Lucky_Jim 3 0 false Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 16:24:12 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 18:32:06 -0700 2009
It's so hard for a book to live up to a reputation of being "preposterously funny" and "rarest of joys, a really funny novel". Lucky Jim does have many wonderful moments of humor - I especially lo...more...]]> 395182 0140186301 9780140186307 1622 267 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174415350m/395182.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395182.Lucky_Jim 4 0 false Mon Jan 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 09:10:35 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 09:19:19 -0800 2009
An extremely funny story of life at a redbrick UK University set in the 1950s with much slapstick and humor based on social unease!

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