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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Amusing and Entertaining, November 13, 2001
Reviewer: Elizabeth Hendry (New Jersey USA) - See all my reviews
David Lodge's Small World is an amusing, entertaining look at the world of academia, particularly the world of English literature, and all of the ridiculous people who inhabit it. I truly enjoy Lodge's work, but I have to say, this isn't my favorite. It's still terrific, but, in my opinion, not his strongest work. It starts off a little slow and many of the characters, while funny, are a bit predictable. I also think this novel didn't really stand the test of time. That being said, it is a funny and engaging read, certain to make you chuckle and even laugh out loud. It's just not Lodge's best work, but Lodge on a bad day is still infinitely better than most other writers on a good day.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
Possibly the funniest book ever written., January 11, 2001
Reviewer: Samuel Chell (Kenosha,, WI United States) - See all my reviews
As a teenager I reveled in the picaresque, occasionally perverse, peregrinations of Fielding's "Tom Jones." Hours of watching Laurel and Hardy and The 3 Stooges had convinced me that literature was incapable of affording the same intensity of pleasure. But Fielding's writing showed me otherwise. Nevertheless, I had never experienced the power of literature to induce uncontrollable physical laughter, akin to the audible response resonating throughout a movie theater, until reading "Small World." Never mind the parody of the Parsifal legend or grail quest, the rewriting of "The Fairie Queen" and "The Wasteland," or the send-up of not merely current literary criticism but many of its celebrated gurus. My wife had none of this background, and yet when I read the novel out loud to her, she was no less incapacitated by the force of the farce than I had been during my first reading (no, I don't think she was laughing at my recitation).
One caveat: I thought the novel would provide college students with an excellent introduction to numerous archetypal themes, canonical works, and schools of literary theory. Forget it. A generation brought up on Pauly Shore and Adam Sandler seems incapable of finding humor, let alone meaning, in language as well crafted as Lodge's.