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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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Summary: I really wanted to like this book, but . . .
Review: I read this book a couple of years ago after having read rave reviews of it and an article stating that Toole was nothing short of a genius. I really thought that I'd like it. I tried to like it, but I had to struggle just to get through it. I thought that Ignatius was a fatuous, unlikeable windbag, and after a hundred pages or so I just wished someone would throttle him. What killed this book for me was that I just didn't care about Ignatius. I will try to reread this book in the next few months to see if my opinion has changed. If this book entertains you, great, its just didn't work for me.
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Summary: "Oh, my valve!"
Review: Ignatius Riley is one of the greatest characters in all of literature. His constant complaining about everything (from his valve to Myrna Minkoff) had me laughing almost to the point of insanity! Fabulous book. I would recommend this book to anyone whose quest is to readd al great American literature.
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Summary: What an absolute utter WASTE
Review: I'm surprised anyone would publish such moronic work It's a stupid inane story about an obnoxious, arrogant 30 year old fat slob who lives with his ignorant dimwit mother. OK, but they didn't do anything! I mean, what was the point. It's suppose to be funny (so say the majority below) but is only disgustingly retarded & brainless, witless drivel. What a waste of trees and every thing else.
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Summary: LAUGH UNTIL YOU CAN'T BREATH
Review: If you love intelligent humor that holds something new at each reading then you MUST NOT PASS UP THIS OPPORTUNITY. Quite possibly the funniest book I have ever read. Brimming with oddball characters of every description and scenarios beyond belief this book is the Mona Lisa of humorous literature. Uproarously hilarious! The tragedy is that Mr. Toole's literary career was cut short by his untimely death.
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Summary: Probably the best gift he ever gave me...
Review: My father,after a visit to New Orleans, gave me this book about 16 years ago.Probably the best gift he ever gave me.I have continued to read it over the years.It grabbed me the first time and has never realeased its grip on me. It has altered the way I look at the world. It taught me to revel in life's absurdities and not to be frightened by them.This book proves that political correctness sanitizes the world in ways that strip us of our intellect. When people who share the common experience of having read this book meet,it never fails to ignite,at the very least,a spirited conversation if not outright friendship. I do not recommend this book to people...I simply present it to them.I keep a supply on hand and find great pleasure in being the catalyst for those who take up the challenge and embark on this magnificently unique and hilarious journey. I lay down a gauntlet...Read it and LAUGH! Warning: Hazardous if read in public.May cause uncontrollable fits of hysteria.
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Summary: What a hoot!
Review: This book is hilarious - a must read! The first time I read it, I couldn't help laughing out loud. If you just need something that's fun to read, this book is it!
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