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Summary: My valve!
Review: It's usually difficult to get involved with a book with characters impossible to relate to... This is the exception. Regardless of how much you want to throttle Ignatius, you find yourself driven to find out what ridiculous situation he throws himself into next. Not all genius is good...
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Summary: WONDERFULLY FUNNY
Review: This is the funniest book I have ever read and I can say that after reading it 4 times over the last 20 years! It just gets better with each new reading. I have recommended this book to many friends and associates and they have all loved it. The next closest book in terms of humor would be The Sot Weed Factor by Barth which I would also recommend highly.
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Summary: This is a fine work.
Review: It is amazing the lack of intellect utilized by the one star reviewers. The negative emotion that is spewed by those with a lack of understanding is amazing. This book is about those people, those dunces. Enjoy this book, it is wonderful.
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Summary: gave it to my Crim Law professor
Review: Most fun i've ever had reading a book. incomparable. After 3 readings, I find more and more subtle details that enrich reading this wondrous novel. It's also a great book simply for describing vagracy laws, which is why i gave it to my criminal law teacher. A great tourguide to New Orleans as well, needless to say.
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Summary: Incredible. Funny and touching. One of the all-time greats
Review: Ingatius is some character! Yes, he would be hard to deal with in real life, but the author really gets inside his head. Toole is Ignatius, of course, and reading this book just might help you understand some of the truly eccentric people in our society. All of the supporting characters are wonderful as well. The author's command of the language is stupendous. Mostly hilarious, there are some touching and even sad moments. I gave this book to two friends, who loved it, and my mom, who didn't. So this book probably isn't for the Grisham-Francis type of reader. If you have ever felt "different" in any way, this book is for you.
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Summary: An amazing novel
Review: In a few short pages, Toole had me hooked. The characters were well developed and immediately I was emotionally involved. The lunacy of the situations added to the story as much as the deep descriptions of sights, sounds and locations. What I found most amazing was how timely this novel is. While it was written many years ago, it is a story for our time, with many adult children returning home to the nest. I wouldn't be surprised to find many Irene's out there, just wishing their "boy" would "make good"
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Summary: Tears and laughter -- a tragic, gut, wrenching comedy.
Review: This book is a paradox. Enigmatic. Percy's characterization is perfect: Where the tragedy comes from is a mystery. Not so with the comedy. Read it. Or, start reading--the book will take care of the rest. Toole killed himself at the foot of the street I live on in Biloxi, MS. I wish I could have been there when he looped the garden hose from the exhaust pipe through the window into the car. I would have begged him not to give in to the depression. To write, more. Much, much more.
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Summary: Quite possibly the funniest book ever written.
Review: This novel is quite possibly the funniest book ever published in the English language. That is all that needs to be said. Read it as soon as possible -- your life will be better.
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Summary: A rare and true "little known fact"
Review: For those who at least once in their lifetime would like to share a wonderful "little known fact" here is your chance. How many have heard of John Kennedy Toole? Yet, once having encountered his merry band of misfits, one feels ignorant having lived without them. One feels uninformed not knowing Ignatius Reilly and certainly one feels a sense of loss once the last page is turned.In reading this you will not only do yourself a great favor, but others as well as no one can keep this madcap adventure a secret from his or her friends. In other words, reading this wonderful story counts as an act of altruism because you won't be able to keep from spreading your good fortune with others.
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Summary: Laughed out loud: absolutely hilarious!
Review: Surely Ignatius J. Reilly, the struggling intellectual troubled by the worldview of his coworkers, acquaintances and his own mother is one of the most hilarious characters of modern literature? Living his life along the lines of Boethius, Ignatius is out to change the world through his various roles as a low-payed employee at a well known trouser company and hot-dog vendor. Troubled exceedingly by 'that minx' Myrna Minkoff, who is leading a sexual revolution, Ignatius is changing the world one step at a time. I would recommend this book to anyone needing some colour in their life for a taste of a brilliant character in the setting of New Orleans.
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