A review by joe_olipo
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

2.0

"No longer human, and therefore all-too-human." — Elkins

Where have we met James before? This "no-longer-academic" young man, who is alienated from his studies, always game for a pint, prurient beyond his means, ruining a set of bedsheets in an amusing manner, disdaining the success of the well-connected son of his superior, despising his attendant insipid politics (though still voting Tory himself), and who is leaving academia to pursue a better life in a novel, is already the current chair of your English department.

(As for his theory that, "Nice things are nicer than nasty ones," <-- "No in italic capitals.")