The 10 best fictional hangovers

For the Guardian Euan Ferguson named the ten best fictional hangovers in print, film and song. One title on the list:

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

The best hangover scene ever written, from a master of both writing and hangovers. “[Jim] Dixon was alive again. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way… He lay sprawled, too wicked to move, spewed up like a broken spider-crab on the tarry shingle of the morning… His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. During the night, too, he’d somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad”

Read about the other entries on the list.

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--Marshal Zeringue