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Summary: Now I acuse everyone of beig a "communiss"
Review: Reading this on the subway, I laughed so hard I started bawling. Never before have I been the one people on the NYC subways rolled their eyes at. Since I have read this masterpiece, I talk about molutov cocktails all the time and I tell everybody they deserve to be "lashed until they drop". It's sick how funny this book is.
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Summary: yuck
Review: I was disgusted by the main character. I was dissappointed by the book. It was not "outrageously funny" and all the other praise. It was a let down, and stupid.
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Summary: Simply very funny
Review: All I can say is that I was reading this book late one evening on my apartment balcony and I had to come back inside, because I was laughing so hard I started disturbing the neighbors. I'm not one to laugh out loud, but with this book, I just couldn't help it.
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: I was notified of the existence of this work by a friend a greatly admire. Our tastes are usually in sync. He had recently borrowed a book from the library and was singing its praises to me before he had even finished. Upon completing the novel he lent it to me. Trusting I would read and return said book in the time allotted preventing him from the wrath of the librarians. Needless to say, I loved it. It is most important here to note that rarely does someone recommend anything to me I enjoy as much as them. Nor have I ever recommended anything to anyone else who loved it as much as me. Great book!
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Summary: The abridged versions sucks!!!
Review: Even though the book was a masterpiece and the unabridged audio version might be great, Arte Johnson ruins the shorter abridged version on audio from the very beginning! His horibble attempt to capture the New Orleans accent is criminal and his voice is annoying at best. I recommend that you purchase this audio book to seek revenge upon on you most hated enemies! If you are the fan of the original book as I am. DO NOT BOTHER WITH THIS ABOMINATION!!! IT LACKS THE THEOLOGY AND GEOMETRY that John Kennedy Toole included in the book!
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Summary: Ignatius may not be likeable...but often, so is not life...
Review: I read this book "off the shelf" several years ago, never having heard of John Kennedy Toole...simply picked it up as I liked the title...and was definitely intrigued by the posthumous Pulitzer. I have read some of the positive, as well as negative reviews of this most unusual, unnerving, and most unfortunately truthful novel. It saddens me to think that those who found Ignatius to be a repulsive and impossible character can't see that Ignatius was/is the author and not some fictional character, but a young man, willing to lay his pain out on each page for the world to witness. Saddest of all perhaps, that there are those who were fortunate enough to have been given this rare and uncensored look into the life of such a very, very, lonely man to have not learned from the magnitude of his gift to us all...a rare chance to experience the pain of a stranger,without obligation and having had this, not to have read the last page with at the very least a readiness to accept others, for whatever, or whoever they might be. I have read perhaps 3,000 novels in my life and am proud to say that I can feel this man's pain in all of his oddities and idiosyncrasies...for he is no different than all of us...he lived, perhaps not in a way that most of us will ever admit to...but in a way that we can all admittedly or not, understand. I recommend this book to anyone who can accept that we are all different, yet all the same...to be different is not always the accepted thing, but is most always better than being just like everyone else. Read this book with an open mind, heart, and room in your soul for forgiveness... for Ignatius is certainly not a very likeable character, but in the end (as in the beginning) he is human no more or less than you or I however, unlike you or I, he chose to bear his soul and asks for no forgiveness just acceptance and verification that yes, he did live.
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Summary: I laughed so hard I fell out of bed!
Review: Truly, the single funniest book I have ever read...a close second to "Auntie Mame" in the sweepstakes for funniest American novel of the 20th Century. Years after reading this book, when I finally got to New Orleans, I already KNEW that wonderful, wacky city. I knew it in my soul, thanks to John Kennedy Toole. It scares me when people do not find this book funny...what has life done to them? Chilling. The sheer brilliance of this book makes me invoke that much over-used word: Masterpiece! Pure and simple genius. You'll laugh, you'll cry. You'll learn about life!
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Summary: NOOOOOOO! SPARE US!!!!!!
Review: I didn't like this book and I finished it out of determination. Personally, I found the plot slow and ripetitive, the characters more similar to jonsonian humours than real persons. The atmosphere of the whole book reminded me of a famous Italian comic strip "Alan Ford e il Gruppo TNT" (Alan Ford and the TNT Groups). Italian readers know what I'm talking about and will see this is no compliment. I grant the author a deep knowledge of medieval culture, though, and a good hand at mastering his own mother tongue. I wonder whether, had he lived, he would have written something really good.
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Summary: Eccentric characters, enjoyable read
Review: An excellent book, if a bit odd. The adventures of Ignatius and his crazy outlook on the world kept me laughing, due mostly to the sheer absurdity of the world he inhabits. The characters in this book are all memorable--eccentric in so many ways, but brought to life by the gifted late author. Though Ignatius' views and habits are a bit revolting at times, he's still a very fascinating (and amusing) character, whether or not you love him. Don't take the book too seriously. Just enjoy it for what it is.
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Summary: So funny I didn't think about valve once
Review: This is the one the professor uses to see if we still know how to read. If you were coerced to read it like I was than thank your teacher/librarian/parole officer and read it again... if only for the sodomising superpowers. It's funny. It's also very well written. At first look my one inch thick paperback edition was a little intimidating, not to mention the prices at the college bookstore, but every adventure is a story in itself and I had a whole month to read the book and write a paper so who's counting. This hero's coming of age would have been just another funny trip through the American social landscape if Toole hadn't come through time and time again revealing some shred of justice behind each of Ignatius' blunders. Ignatius' divine rampage is the rare satire that merits this society. Despite a cast of colorful characters playing everything from God to slob, Toole's comedy does not leave the national conscience as clean as his hero's perverted bedsheets, hung to dry on his mother's clothesline one last time. It is a funny but poignant tale of yet another American innocent, impressed with the conscience of a nation, and forced to keep ahead of its current of opinion. I like my teacher and I like the book. I'm no scholar on american literature but I've also read books I didn't like and on a scale of one-to-five, Larry Flynt being the lowest and Ken Kesey one of the best, I'll give this book 4 stars.
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