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Summary: A Confederacy of Dunces
Review: This book is by far, one of the funniest books I've had the pleasure to read. You just can't help laughing aloud, so don't worry if people around you give you odd stares. Too bad John Kennedy Toole wasn't around to recieve his prize. This book is a 20th century classic.
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Summary: What a TERRIBLE thing to say Mr. Gallen! (previous reviewer)
Review: Imagine...someone saying such an awful thing (Mr. Gallen's review). Mr. Gallen, I am glad that you are not in charge of the publishing world! I almost never read fiction, but a close friend asked me to read "Confederacy". I laughed MORE reading this book than I did when reading "Catcher in the Rye" twenty years ago! I have since recommended this book to many people, ALL of whom would agree with me. Sophomoric, and even grotesque at times...this is truly a very funny read! I couldn't put it down and read the entire book in one day. The hardcover edition offered here is a bargain, but the softcover is a little larger size and bigger type font making it a little more comfortable to read through.
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Summary: American Masterpiece!
Review: This is a wonderful story. I laughed and laughed, but at the same time, I was horrified at the hidden truths. Toole wrote the essential American Masterpiece, creating a lunatic for a hero, a man really more sane than the crazy American society surrounding him. Some novels have the ability to change your perceptions forever, and this is one of them. Read it. Laugh. And cry that Toole is no longer among the living!
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Summary: I'd commit suicide too if I wrote this book
Review: The author of this atrocious book has given us the most annoying character in the entire history of literature. Imagine reading the story of the spoiled little brat kid who lived down the street from you when you were younger. The kid who always talked back to his mother and got everything he wanted. Who wants to read about a person like this? The story itself moves along at a terrible pace. It switches from one unfunny episode to another with a bit of difficulty, usually relying on the main character going home to go to sleep at the end of the chapter, and waking up to a new, irritating adventure.
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Summary: Montage of some of the Ugliest, Tackiest Images in history.
Review: To read this book is to see the world through the eyes of Ignatius J. Reilly. To see the world through the eyes of Ignatius J. Reilly is to strip nude and plaster yourself with maggots, do cartwheels through the streets, watch as everyone reels in horror, and then declare that they are simply jealous of your refined culture. Seriously, I think Toole expressed a lot of perceptive insight about human nature, and sad as though much of it may be, he expressed it in a very humorous way. Not to mention that after reading this, you will feel much better about yourself, because you will realize that, although they may have been just book characters, there have in history been some individuals with less dignity than you.
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Summary: Whoa!
Review: Ignatious lives! At least, he will once you've read this book. Toole has created characters that deliver some of the most hilarious dialogue I've ever read or heard. What would one-step-up from character developement be - character birth? These people are alive. One of a kind.
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Summary: A wonderful comedy
Review: This book is perhaps the most consistently funny novel I have yet read. Toole had a fine sense of the absurd, wonderful characterization, and a keen ability with language. It is a true pity that this book was his last effort. Arguably, it was his only effort; "The Neon Bible", a teenage effort 'discovered' some years later, reads as if it was from a completely different writer. What a loss. (Should I sign this "Tad, your working boy"? hmm... nah)
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Summary: Genius Humor
Review: There has never been a character so richly developed as Ignatious Reilly. The author--sadly, deceased--introduced me to the seamy side of New Orleans through the eyes of this offbeat lunatic while incorporating tremendous humor and humanity into all his characters. A classic, one to be read over and over again. I can pick this book up now and turn to any page and find myself laughingly absorbed in its brilliant plot. No doubt Toole anticipated a sequel, and his suicide is a great loss to the literary world.
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Summary: Genius Humor
Review: There has never been a character so richly developed as Ignacious Reilly. The author--sadly, deceased--introduced me to the seamy side of New Orleans through the eyes of this offbeat lunatic while incorporating tremendous humor and humanity into all his characters. A classic, one to be read over and over again. I can pick this book up now and turn to any page and find myself laughingly absorbed in its brilliant plot. No doubt Toole anticipated a sequel, and his suicide is a great loss to the literary world.
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Summary: Buy it
Review: ..... and those of you who didn't like it... please let me know where you live so I don't accidentally move next door to you... A confederacy is a brilliant piece of work. However, on my second reading of it I was struck more by the underlying tragedy of Ignatius than by the sheer, absurd humor of his lunatic, madcap escapades and his eerily logical rhetoric. This work, is also, without a doubt a powerful political commentary of the times. Buy it, read it.
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