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Liked It1 of 1 members found this review helpful “One of the funniest novels ever, and one of the best debuts, too.” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“Jim Dixon, asst. at University, pulls stunts in order to impress girls & professors, hysterically manages to get exactly what he is after at conclusion of novel”
Jane H wrote this review Friday, October 9 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“There was something about Miss Cutler's cornflakes, her pallid fried eggs or bright red bacon, her explosive toast, her diuretic coffee which, much better than bearable at nine o'clock, his usual breakfast-time, seemed at eight-fifteen to summon from all the recesses of his frame every lingering vestige of crapulent headache, every relic of past nauseas, every echo of noises in his head.”
Michael W wrote this review Tuesday, March 31 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No0 of 1 members found this review helpful“Once the characters of Jim Dixon and his colleagues, friends and students had been established in this book, Jim, the everyman who never has enough money and just wants a beer and a cigarette in peace, rang so true to me that not only could I recognise myself very much in him but several of my friends. As a sympathetic reader of Jim Dixon, I then found myself just as frustrated with his situation in life as he did and willed everything to work out for him in the end while giggling at his ridiculous antics, his battle of wills with a sneaky colleague and love triangles along the way”
StellaMac wrote this review Wednesday, April 9 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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