17 November 2002

On the back of my copy of The Big U:

…if you want to know what Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon, it’s back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring thirty-year-old junior Casimir Radon…

On the back of my copy of Lucky Jim:

The hilarious send-up of academic life which helped to set the style of post-war fiction…

Someday I aspire to write a hilarious send-up of my own.