100 Books Challenge discussion

This is for discussion of the book by Kingsley Amis

Lucky Jim is #72 on our list.

Technically, this is our July read as it should have started on July 20. It's a short book & a comic so I think we can do it. I will probably fall behind as usual, but I hope not.

I forgot all about this one. I’ll download it if I haven’t already.

I’ve read the first chapter. Seems ok. Is anyone else reading this?

I still have it on my tbr ... but haven't even gotten it from the library yet. I feel so far behind!

I'm behind, too. That's usual for me. I am about a third of the way in. It's ok, I'm just not sure where it's going & I think it's supposed to be funny. I'm not seeing that at all ... maybe it's just a bad time for me to be reading it. It's not a bad read though.

Only eight months late ... but finally ordered the book from my library. I'll read it this month (or, at least that's my intent)

:-) Always my intent is more ambitious than my performance. I’m still working my way through Shadow of the Moon.

I’m looking forward to your thoughts on LJ.

I am slogging through this. Really not capturing my attention. I guess dry British humor is just not my thing. (I also never though Cold Comfort Farm was all that funny.)

Glad to know it wasn’t just me. I was seriously underwhelmed with it, but I can say I finished it.

1* ... don't even feel like writing a review. I never connected to any of the characters. Didn't find it at all humorous. Really disliked Jim ... what a liar and lazybones! I feel that I wasted a week of reading time slogging through this.

Exactly how I felt.

Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis – 1*
Maybe I’m too far past my college years. Perhaps it’s the dry British humor. Or the 1950s setting and writing style (first published in 1954). But I just don’t see the humor in this. I struggled to finish and did so only because I had committed to a buddy read.
LINK to my review