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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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Summary: smart!
Review: Very funny book! I enjoyed reading Ignatius's comments in particular. He uses the most complicated terms to say one simple word! This brings up some of the problems in modern society with the touch of humor and comedy. Very smart!
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Summary: Extremely funny AND real!
Review: This is one of those books which has everything to be consider a classic! It was wonderfully written, the description of the characters and places where the story takes place is brilliant. And the best part is that you can't but laugh out loud all along while you're reading this book. This kind of humor can only be found in great authors such as J.D.Salinger himself. This book has everything...a great plot, lovable characters, and madness all over it.
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Summary: Classic Confederacy
Review: This book should be considered a "classic!" I have never laughed out loud as hard as I did while reading this book. Everything from the characters to their series of comedic events had me in hysterics. The story focuses on the pathetic "dunce" of a man, Ignatius J. Reilly. This thirty year old (well-educated) man, who is completely dependent upon his mother, is forced to get a job. Every job he has, somehow, seems to interfere with his very busy life of doing nothing. Although he has a master's degree, he finds thoughtless, thankless jobs that he can't hold onto. His on-the-job blunders and his desire to change society as well as his interactions with the other characters make this the funniest book I have ever read. I would definitely recomend it to anyone who wants a good laugh!
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Summary: a great read!
Review: I discovered this book by a friend's recommendation. Once I started it, I couldn't put it down. I laughed and laughed! Twelve years later, I am still rereading it and still laughing. The book is a brilliant blend of comedy and tragedy, a 180 proof distillation of the human spirit. I haven't read anything better, although I know a dozen books I'd rank with it, including Catcher in the Rye, Catch-22, The Fountainhead, The Last Detail, Breakfast of Champions, and In Watermelon Sugar. If you don't try this one, you're missing a great chance. Obviously some people don't get it, don't like it, etc. Those of us who do like it, love it. It's worth a try, believe me.
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Summary: A shame Toole isn't still around
Review: As funny as this book is, as dead-on as the dialogue is, as fascinatingly complex as the supporting cast is, the centerpiece of this fantastic novel is (of course) Ignatius Reilly. But perhaps Toole's greatest accomplishment is in carefully tempering Ignatius' buffoonery with a profound sense of sadness. With his thunderous, pretentious, hilarious and desperate lamentations on Modern Society, Ignatius is at once the Town Cryer, the Royal Hero and the Village Idiot.
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Summary: Will prolong the life of many (but not all) people
Review: One of the reasons this book made it into my top 25 list (see homepage) is that I found it very funny.I stopped laughing when I read the true story that the writer himself never got to see his book published and that in fact no one wanted to publish it. His mother had to sit down in the office of a a literature professors at some small university demanding that he should read the manuscript, or she wouldn't leave his office. He liked it and helped get it published and it won the Pullizer prise the year it came out. Does anyone know how difficult it is to write good humour. There are billions of suspense novels, zillions of contemporary novels, thrillions of science fiction and fantasy books, but only a handful of really funny books (Mark Twains short stories, The witches books of terry Pratchet, Calvin & Hobbs cartoons, the Topper books). John Kennedy Tool is a genius who died to young and his hero, "Ignatius J. Reilly is a grotesque, a gargantua, who lumbers through New Orleans leaving chaos in his wake" and he also leaves chaos among the reviewers in Amazon.com and why? Because humour are so difficult and so individual. Either you love it or you don't. Either or is normal. A deeply funny book, that will prolong the life of many people.
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