John Cleese is an actor, producer, writer, one of the co-founders of Monty Python, and the author of a memoir,
So Anyway. One of his six favorite books, as shared at
The Week magazine:
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
I met Amis once and liked him very much. He was rather sour, but he wrote beautifully, and he did really manage to describe certain personalities. His first novel is about a fellow called Dixon, a history lecturer at a minor university. Dixon has wonderfully funny fantasies, and Margaret, his sometime girlfriend, is one of the most awful human beings in fiction. I remember reading this by the side of a swimming pool in Spain, and I was really quite bothering the people around me because I kept bursting into hysterical laughter.
Read about
another entry on the list.
Lucky Jim also appears on
Christian Rudder's six favorite books list,
Jess Dukes's top ten list of brain-expanding books for the college-bound teen,
Andy Borowitz's list of five top comic novels,
Sean O'Hagan's list of the ten best fictional hangovers,
Roger Rosenblatt's list of the
five best satires of academic life, and John Mullan's lists of
ten of the best lectures in literature,
ten of the best professors in literature, and
ten of the best beards in literature.
--Marshal Zeringue
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