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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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Summary: It is the best book that I have ever read...
Review: When I started to read this book I was suprised to read on and on. Not only did it make me laugh but it made me see so many truths of what is happening around us. Life is not so beautiful as we want it to be and Ignatius is a true seer of reality. He may be stuck in his own world but he takes his readers into fantastic adventures of life. He truly is the New Orleans Don Quixote. All the characters were extremely fascinating as we learned litttle by little about their lives and how they all slowly become connected to one man. The man who is Ignatius Reily and who makes this whole book very funny.
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Summary: Astonishing
Review: Four years ago, my secretary said to me, "Ignatius and you would have been friends." I had no idea what he meant. He told me to buy this book. I did, that day. I read it all night long. And when I finished late the next morning, I turned back to the first page and read it again. Today, I started reading it for the third time. And I have to say, I find it even more astonishing than ever. If you've read it once (or twice) I can tell you from my personal experience, you can read it again and still find yourself stunned by the brilliance of this novel. At the end of the book, I am always left with this dark sadness. A sadness that the writer, who attempted to get the book published, never knew that thirty years after his death by his own hand, his "unpublished failure" would be, at this writing, #543 on Amazon, nearly twenty years after winning the Pulitzer prize for literature. He never knew the internet, let alone Amazon. I can't help but wonder what he would think if he could see what happened to those 400 some-odd pages he left in his dresser drawer for his mother to find. There's a message here. A message to people who face rejection at first, and then again and again. And that message is that you never know what is around the next corner. Suicide is a bad choice. No matter how hopeless things look. Certainly, part of the interest in this book is because of this very fact; that the author killed himself before knowing how famous the reason he killed himself ever became. But the true brilliance of this book is in black and white, on the page. Page after page. Certainly there are people who don't like or "get" this book. But personally, I wouldn't want to live next door to them.
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Summary: The animal references are the finishing touch
Review: What kind of pet? JKT's take on the world is different from anyone else's, and this book gives an idea of how things can be at the opposite end of the scale compared to most people today.
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Summary: Greatest Satirical Work Ever
Review: No words can describes this...hahahahahaha!! I just can not stop laughing man!! JAJAJAJAJAJa!!
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Summary: The finest novel I have ever read.
Review: Some people retire to play golf or go fishing or travel. I retired so I could have time to read. I have read this book 7 times over the years, and it is simply the best novel I have ever read. I was reading it in the Oakland,Ca. airport one day with tears streaming down my face from laughing. Two people came over and asked the name of the book as they wanted to buy it just from my reaction. I can pick up this book and open any page and start laughing at the manic goings on. I cannot reccommend it highly enough.
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Summary: Absolutely hilarious, unforgettable, enchanting, but sad.
Review: My mother gave me this book some twenty years ago. A prolific reader herself--the best trait I inherited from her--I wondered how she happened upon such a gem. The protagonist is incredibly concerned with his internal workings--has anyone ever had a more in depth relationship with their pyloric valve?--and yet so lazy, as to frustrate every effort to reform him. I have read this book several times in the last two decades, and invariably give my copy to someone else. That's what led me to Amazon to order another one. Please read this book--and cry at the waste of the life of the author. Oh, if he'd only had the longevity of Kurt Vonnegut--he certainly has the wit--who knows how many more masterpieces he could have produced. I can't think of anyone who wouldn't love this novel.
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