Chris "Stu"'s review
Lucky Jim (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Kingsley Amis
Right on. Amis Senior gets credit for the definitive literary description of waking up with a hangover. Appropriately hilarious and excrutiating.
Chris "Stu"'s review
Lucky Jim (Penguin Modern Classics) by Kingsley Amis
Chris "Stu"'s review
rating:
bookshelves:
2007,
recommended
recommended for: Everyone
This book is awesome. Kind of the quintessential man-about-college novel, a precursor to _Wonder Boys_ and _Straight Man_ and most anything by any college professor who fancies themselves a writer, this is the real deal. Funny and wise and finally, a hero who isn't just someone for an author to torment. Also, it contains the best description of a hangover ever! Read on:
"Dixon was alive again. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way; not for him the slow, gracious wandering from the halls of sleep, but a summary, forcible ejection. He lay sprawled, too wicked to move, spewed up like a broken spider crab on the tarry shingle of the morning. The light did harm, but not as much as looking at things did; he resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. 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,...more
"Dixon was alive again. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way; not for him the slow, gracious wandering from the halls of sleep, but a summary, forcible ejection. He lay sprawled, too wicked to move, spewed up like a broken spider crab on the tarry shingle of the morning. The light did harm, but not as much as looking at things did; he resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. 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,...more
Right on. Amis Senior gets credit for the definitive literary description of waking up with a hangover. Appropriately hilarious and excrutiating.