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Updike: "Compared with...Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, it lacked not only private psychological intensity but, oddly enough, true comic edge. For there is no need to write 'funny novels,' when life’s actual juxtapositions & convolutions, set down attentively, are comedy enough"
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I have rarely laughed out loud so hard in public as when reading Lucky Jim on a park bench. Nothing of Updike's ever made me laugh at all.
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I’d call Lucky Jim in particular a humour of anxiety, but I would not call it “labored” — especially coming from Updike!
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