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Title: One of the funniest books ever written
Review: Was there ever a novelist as consistently funny as Kingsley Amis? And was there ever a novel as funny as Lucky Jim? Read this book and you'll know why critic William H. Pritchard named it one of the five funniest books written this century (along with Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall and Anthony Powell's From a View to a Death). No one was better than Amis at mercilessly skewering phonies and mocking the affected, and here his targets not only include academics and academic life, but the artistically pretentious, the enforced boredom of dinner parties, "Art with a capital 'A'," any male over the age of thirty with facial hair, the tendency of academic women to dress like peasants, "filthy Mozart," and--in case he missed anyone--Modernism in general. With targets like these, how could one not enjoy the book
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