So this book did not strum my funny bone the same reading it ten years later. But, I can explain. First, the story takes place on a university campus among some of the most pretentious and pedantic types known. When meeting this book for the first time, that was my life and therefore it spoke to me in a very intimate way. Having left that environment and many of its occupants behind, I no longer see myself planted in its pages. Lucky Jim also deals with the dating game, yet another arena I haven't frequented in many years, although it did take me back to more than one memory. Lastly, and what will still make me call this an overly enjoyable book deals with the main character lucky Jim Dixon.

Now luck, then and now, is something I am very familiar with and not a shred of that humor was lost on me. Bottom line, if you're not at university, in the dating melee or a very lucky person, this British comedy may not whisper secrets in your ear like it did mine and you may therefore not enjoy it as much as I. Buyer beware.