Euphoric State University with its whitestone, sun-drenched campus and England's damp red-brick University of Rummidge have an annual professorial exchange scheme, and as the first day of the last year of the tumultuous sixties dawns, Philip Swallow and Morris Zapp are the designated exchangees. They know they'll be swapping class rosters, but what they don't know is that in a wildly spiraling transatlantic involvement they'll soon be swapping students, colleagues, and even wives. Changing Places is a hilarious send-up of academic life, intellectual fashion, sex, and marriage by a writer Anthony Burgess has called "one of the best novelists of his generation."

This is an intelligent book, full of interesting if not improbable plot twists. The dialogue is witty, the prose full of brilliant and very interesting words to build a vocabulary on. It is not laugh out loud funny, but sniggering at the side of your mouth humorously.

The experimental part at the end is a bit misshapen and very disappointing, especially for the reader, who comes to care about his characters. I think it is the worst part of the book.

I really enjoyed this book. It is well worth reading it, you won't waste your time.