trin 's review for:

Changing Places by David Lodge

5.0

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To everyone who was telling me I should read this: you were right, you were right, you were so so right. One of my favorite books is [a: Kingsley Amis|13078|Kingsley Amis|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1206565493p2/13078.jpg]' [b: Lucky Jim|395182|Lucky Jim|Kingsley Amis|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1373459729l/395182._SY75_.jpg|876732], so of course I would love Lodge's academic comedy—especially since it comes with the bonus of being set in Birmingham and Berkeley. They're not called Birmingham and Berkeley, of course, but if you have any familiarity with either locale, it becomes even more amusing to "decode" the various place names (i.e., Silver Span, Cable Avenue, etc.). Further, the way Lodge plays with format (epistolary, newspaper clippings, film script) is both fun and effective, and there's a delightful amount of meta-humor. In short, I enjoyed this immensely.