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Summary: What a good book!
Review: This is an excelent piece of liturature. Ignatius' language and story line are incredible. Ignatius is funny and keeps you wanting to read more. I recomend this book with no reserve.
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Summary: Down and Out in Nawlins
Review: I've never laughed so hard in my life. If you ever wondered what life looks like throughthe eyes of a hotdog vendor,while living over the edge of reality, then you must read this book. It's an absolute delight to the imagination and funny bone.
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Summary: Astonishingly Witty!
Review: I romped through this novel in only a few days - laughing all the way! I'd never read anything so clever: so funny, yet wrought with the many sad and universal truths of this life. Ignatius J. Reilly - a pathetic and sad picture of a human being - being quite well-aware that he is possessed of a vast superiority of mind - gallivants through New Orleans leaving all forms of upheaval in his wake.Ah - Toole brings New Orleans, a city I love dearly, alive here - it swelters and breathes with every word on every page of this epic work of art and wit!
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Summary: It didn't make me laugh...
Review: I actually liked the book. It's so life-like. I know far too many people that are just as awful and obnoxious as the charecters in it. Very vivid, very depressing. The only character I would really want to spend time with was the cloud of smoke that is Jones. The book was worth it just for Jones. My main problem with the book was that it failed to make me laugh. This wouldn't be a problem normally. I don't expect books to be laughfests as a rule, but everyone said "Oh, it's soo hilarious! I was cracking up the whole time I read it!" So I had to read it for a literature class. My teacher said it is a masterpeice. It won the Pulitzer Prize! So I was expecting to laugh this time. But I couldn't. It was just too depressing. I told my teacher I didn't think it was funny. He asked my classmates if they thought it was funny and they all said yes. My teacher quoted Jonathon Winters, who said that the scariest person in the world is someone without a sense of humor. So maybe I don't have a sense of humor, but I find it difficult to see the point of laughing at miserable people who make each other more miserable. There are also a lot of sex jokes and a lot of jokes about passing gas, but I can get that from Beavis and Butthead. My teacher also said the whole book was about scorn. It is supposed to make you feel beter about yourself because you're not as horrible as the people in the book, but I think my ego was okay without having read this book. But I liked Toole's style. The dialogues and descriptions are wonderful. The book is great as a description of the burgeoning chaos of the early sixties. It just didn't make me laugh.
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Summary: A Confederacy of Dunces
Review: This is quite simply the greatest book ever written. The basic premise seems almost ordinary, but in the hands of JK Toole, it becomes a magnificent one man circus, a triumph of crass stupidity over reason and normality.It is crammed with self- referential "in-jokes", which may pass you by on the first reading. The characters are believable, immaculatley brought to life by the authors incredible style- you can almost taste the New Orleans atmosphere, and its collection of Vagrants, losers, lunatics and heroes that are the books cast are observed with empathy and admiration. The central character is surely the creation of a genius, and the plotlines draw you in to their spiralling web, until they collide with uproarious humour in one of literatures truly Great moments. Few works deserve the title "Masterpiece"- this is surely one.
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Summary: A novel of surpassing wit and humanity
Review: I regret this novel ever finished. This is because the characters are so vividly and sympathetically drawn, the atmosphere of N'Orleans so effectively captured, and the cadence of speech so real, one is filled with an indefinable love of life itself through having experienced the world of Confederacy of Dunces. There's little plot and what there is I can't relate it. If there's a major theme it might be that even the lowest ragamuffin and connivingest wretch can be possessed of a surpassing wit and humanity that make them interesting and important in the scheme of things. Pride, greed, sloth, vanity, arrogance, venality, selfishness may possess the characters and yet an essential vulnerability and innocence and humanity make them redeemable. A lovely, lovely novel by a writer to be spoken of in the same breath as Twain, Dickens and Goncharov.
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Summary: LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT
Review: Like many of the reviews Ignatius J. Reilly is either adored or despised. I'd have to say for myself that the first three chapters made me want to throw Ignatius and this book into the fireplace. Slowly Ignatius gained my appreciation. This educated fool, with his brash comments and warped sense of imagination made me laugh out loud. By the end of the book, I felt myself cheering for him. If you don't like satire, stay away from this book. Ignatius is the type of character that you'll either love or hate.
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Summary: You Have To Read This Book
Review: I was stunned by how much I enjoyed this book. It is simply one of the best books I have read in a very long time. The style of the book reminds me of Vonnegut when he was in his prime. This work rates up there with works such as "Cat's Cradle" and "The Sirens of Titan". He has really captured the flavor of New Orleans. If you have ever been there you can sware that you have been to many of the scenes he so aptly paints. READ THIS BOOK ! !
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Summary: A Masterpiece!
Review: I was so happy reading this book, to have found something so great I enjoyed every page. As other reviewers have noted, this one will make you laugh out loud. Good serious writing that is humorous as well is an American tradition started by Mark Twain and continues through Toole. I also recommend highly Brauner's Love Songs of the Tone-Deaf -- currently the best funny novel. Confederacy of Dunces was written forty years ago and won the Pulitzer Prize many years after the author's death, but it is as fresh, interesting and enjoyable today as it was then.
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Summary: the only jk worth reading
Review: welcome to the world of ignatuis j reilly, by turns misanthropic, enigmatic and down right rude; one can only imagine how much truth pertains to the author in the pages of this god foresaken and heaven sent novel. It's one of those reads where one never knows whether the tears you, the reader, shed mean laughter, pain or both. mystifying in its complexity, yet light enough to leave copies scattered about the neighborhood without anyone accusing you of littering a public space. great writing cut from swiftian stone.
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