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Summary: Oh, Fortuna, you wench!
Review: I have never been affected by a book such as the influence this book has introduced into my life. I loved Ignatius, and I am so depressed. I have just finished this book, and now I am without Ignatius, Miss Trixie, Myrna, et al. How will I go on? Oh, Fortuna, the wheel you have spun sends me spiraling down into the depths of apoplexy and discombobulation! I am incomplete without the wisdom imparted by Ignatius, and I morne the loss of John Kennedy Toole. I will make it my life's mission to spread the word of this work. I am so wrecked right now, in distress. And to think, it was written with a cliff-hanger ending. Oh, Fortuna, you wench!
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Summary: horrendously funny
Review: Imagine a huge, rusted old buick, back seat littered with McDonalds' wrappers, plastic ducklings, and the occasional dog-eared copy of Chaucer or Donne... it careens and swerves down a narrow street, hitting a garbage can, pausing, going into reverse, hitting a telephone pole, birds above squawking in terror and emptying their bowels onto the roof and windshield... the car skids across the alsphalt, pulverizing a mailbox and a couple of lawn ornaments... finally the car jumps the curb, magically aligns in the right direction, and drives off into the distance, leaving behind a yo-yo, two torn tablets of yellow paper, and a street full of spectators, cringing behind shutters and peering behind curtains, caught between horror and humor and soon bursting into infectious, roaring laughter.That imaginary image describes my state when I finished the last page of this book -- horrendous and hilarious, sophisticated and crass, well-written and masterfully constructed.
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Summary: Why hasn't Hollywood discovered this book?
Review: This was a true page-turner in every way. I wanted to the story to just keep going, to continue to be involved in the lives of these interesting, yet deranged, characters. Never have I laughed out loud so much while reading a book. The comic nature of Ignatius, combined with his vast knowledge base and his pitiable mental state, made his character one of the most memorable in modern literature.
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Summary: What does this book say about YOU?
Review: I have never been to New Orleans; I have, on a train between Boston and NYC on a Thanksgiving week-end cursed all overweight Americans for squeezing other people from the seats they were entitled to; I have no sympathy for the redaers who gave this book 1 star; I'm pretty sure I'd be embarrassed by most of those who swear this book is THE GREATEST EVER! ; but unlike people books are never embarassing, they are good or bad, they make you turn another page or shut them to oblivion, and I can assure you that the Confederacy of dunces is a page-turner, especially for those who (without having to go down the author's extreme path) still feel they lost something he day they decided to stop ranting at the world's mad ways from the sidelines to step into it. Fortuna's wheel has spun in the right direction for Ignatius, I wish it had been kinder on Kennedy-Toole.
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Summary: VERY FUNNY
Review: EVERYONE READ THIS BOOK. I MEAN IT. IT'S THE FUNNIEST BOOK I'VE READ THIS YEAR. IF DON'T READ THIS BOOK IT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE A COMMUNIST.
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Summary: Never Have I Enjoyed A Book More!
Review: A co-worker recommended this book saying that it was the best he had ever read--and re-read. Intrigued, I looked it up here, and ordered it. I just now finished it and I am still shaking my head in wonder and amazement. Incredibly funny and down right sad at times with a cast of characters and situations that left me wanting a second book. Sadly, that will never be. This book is a gem.
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Summary: Ignatius is wonderful!
Review: Does anyone else notice how many of the one star reviews hate Ignatius because he's "overweight"? What would he say to that? Maybe I would have had to leave my husband if he didn't love this book as much as I did. It would say something about him.
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Summary: OH MY GOD! Hilarious!
Review: I have read this book 5 times now. I live in New Orleans and find this to be a truth to what this city is truly like. I laugh out loud at Ignatious! And, if you can believe it, New Orleans built a statue in dedication of him. HAHA! It's actually a true story. The writer committed suicide after finishing it. His mother found the transcripts underneath his bed and published it. If you want a good description of New Orleans with a twist you have to read this! It's execelent!
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Summary: Who!
Review: Sirs: I have to be careful so as not to address all my letters as _____________ Mongoloid, esq. My vocabulary seems to have been totally depleted before words and phrases such as "abomination", "floral abortion" and "geometry and theology" became a regular part of it. I went to New Orleans and accidentally came back with four rolls of film with hot-dog vendors. People have attacked me in the subway overcome with joy that they saw another person reading the book. (I didn't get it then, but now that I do it to others it makes perfect sense). I carry the book around with me on days which might turn out to be not so happy. And lastly, after reading some negative reviews - --Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand or are there people in world who don't like this book!
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Summary: This Book is to New Orleans as Ulysses is to Dublin
Review: This is a great novel. The characters are so painstakingly three-dimensional, so pitifully self-important, so realistically unimportant, so catastrophic and triumphant in spite of themselves. Ignatius Reilly will remind you of everyone you ever loved and everyone you ever hated. A masterpiece.
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