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Summary: Comic Masterpiece
Review: "A Confederacy of Dunces" is a sheer joy to read. The protagonist is one of the greatest comic creations of the twentieth century. In John Kennedy Toole we find yet another example of a staggering talent of whom we can only now say "what if..." However, I think we are extremely lucky to at least have this gracious gift of his left behind. "A Confederacy of Dunces" will be providing laughing fits for centuries to come.
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Summary: I Didn't Laugh That Much, But Maybe It Was The Hype
Review: When I was first told about A Confederacy of Dunces it was described as a laugh riot. So when I read the book and only chuckled a couple of times I was dissappointed. The book didn't live up to its hype.The ending was quite good and I liked how the individual stories of each of the characters came together in the end. As a matter of fact, the ending alone is worth the price of the book (Myrna and Ignatius deserve each other). I found myself feeling embarrased for Ignatius throughout this book. After Toole described him, I felt like I had to go take a shower. Any other who can inspire that kind of response is worth a read.
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Summary: Question
Review: This novel is well-constructed and the prose made me thirsty for more and the antics made me guffaw. Etc. But I am sure that the experience of this book would be different were it not for the preface by Percy. Maybe Percy is the author of the book. Maybe O'Toole is the author of Percy. Because the nice bittersweet story about the provenance of the novel at the beginning puts this ulterior sympathy in your head and also the expectation to find some inner sadness in the book. Well, of course there is a kind of sadness in the book, if we evaluate Ignatius by our own standards, e.g., it's sad that he's fat. Also it's at first depressing that Iggy has a problem with Modern Life. But he only talks like he does. Anyway, a claim: this book has a romantic appeal owing to the preface. We get slipped another, richer chracter with the (inner) travails of Iggy but who isn't so superficially exotic, and we endow Iggy with all the praeternatural vitality that a postmortem-vindicated imagination should have. This doesn't vitiate the five-star rating, because, you get the preface too when you buy the book, right?
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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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