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Summary: Empathizing with a Slob...How So?
Review: Throughout the first one-hundred pages of this novel I kept wondering why such a great consensus of readers thought it so stuffed with hilarity. If verisimilitude is still a quality to be looked for in fiction, why in the world would I want to have any association with slob extraordinaire Ignatius J. Reilly! Soon enough, the choice wasn't up to me. But it wasn't because of Reilly himself; rather, it was because of all the other characters, each stringently drawn within parameters one would expect of minor characters, but all interacting with Reilly. My empathy with the main character, therefore, resulted not from Ignatius J. Reilly himself, but from the others in the book who gave me reason to appreciate this man. For most of the rest of the story I laughed the same as everyone before me.
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Summary: over rated
Review: Indeed this book has some genius in it, on the whole I thought it was just a little too much and I can't understand why there are those who think this is a great book. How can this book be mentioned along with Don Quixote? Miguel de Cervantes was a great novelist.
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Summary: A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
Review: I loved this book! The characters are outrageous and hilarious! It is one of the few books that I can quote from after reading it at least six years ago! Many of my friends loved it too. To me, it is a 'cult type' book. You either get the humor or your don't. I was saddened to hear that the author had committed suicide. He was quite a wit!!
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Summary: Remarkable book - funny and deep
Review: This is a remarkable book - a true classic masterpiece. It is funny and warm and insightful and is written in language that is moving and engrossing. This is a book that grabbed me and wouldn't allow me to put it down. It is a shame that Toole's dream of having this book published wasn't realized while he was alive. His suicide was a waste of fantastic talent.
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Summary: I don't get it
Review: There were some funny antics in the book, but the characters themselves just turned me off. Reading this book made me feel like watching someone eat a live bug - you want to see what happens, but are grossed out and disgusted afterward. This book went immediately into the "give away" box when I was done.
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Summary: A+ of a Book
Review: Easily one of the finest pieces of non-fiction I have read. This captivating story makes its characters members of the household. Intricately twined, the multi-story-lined text will be one you will want to read again and again.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Very funny book. I couldn't put it down.
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Summary: Knee-slapping hilarious - Commedia del Arte
Review: A concept novel, thought out in every single detail. The thematic flow is compact - closed and bounded. Snip: (...)
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Summary: Amusing and thoughtful
Review: This novel is a very entertaining read. The character of Ignatius Reilly is so perfectly conceived :an articulate critic of everyone and everything who emerges from his self-imposed isolation to reek havoc on the outside world. Supported by a parade of totally believable denizens of New Orleans' French Quarter who provide a variety of foils for Reilly's misadventures. I enjoyed this very much although the ending was somewhat flat.
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Summary: The Don Quixote of American Lit...
Review: John Kennedy Toole's Sancho Panza-like double, Bro Jones might echo Wild Man IGNATIUS REILLY's Apocalypse Now motto: WOO WEE... Too much bad Geometry! Too much bad Theology! as battle-cry against the farces of Modernity(God-help Post-Modernity & Political Correctness) in this "fat mother's" one man war against EVERYTHING (Immoral; Illegal & Fattening)......A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES is one of the funniest, most absurd novels ever written by anyone, anywhere. If Dostoyevsky could have written something funny, this would have been it. If Melville had sold Dog Dogs...and lived in New Orleans instead of New England...Ahab's name would have been Ignatius and he would have been scribbling in Big Chief Tablets instead of molesting whales. Perhaps Toole is a New Age reincarnation of Cervantes and Mark Twain (NO! Character Reilly was Jesuit to the max; while author Toole as suicide was tragic figure in a world that often uncomcomprehendingly mocks Christian gravitas). Whatever what one might think of its writer, the novel's hillarity and scatter-gun profundity is indisputable. Reviewers mention "transcendent" episodes: Reilly's stirring brother-workers to revolt at the LEVY PANTS consortium is certainly epic in the vein of Steinbeck's Sour Grapes of Wrath. And...sorry folks...the scene where our American Knight Errant takes time-out from BIG CHIEF scribbling to jerk-off is one of the most paralyzingly funny "ephiphanies" I've ever read. This is a fabulous book.I regard it as the Don Quixote of American lit. If you only read 10 great ones in your life you could do worse than choosing this masterpiece of ribald,whacky, bust-your-guts humor...
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