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Summary: One of the best character studies of 20th century literature
Review: This book is, without a doubt, one of the most beautifully drawn character studies I have ever seen. Reading it was alternately excruciating and hilarious. Ignatius was so well-developed and complete, so wonderfully morally ambiguous. I cannot recommend this book enough.
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Summary: Ah, no.
Review: Obviously there are two camps of people that reviewed this book, those that loved it and those that hated it. Not many in between. I'm not sure where the camp of lovers are coming from. This book was not funny. I repeat . . . not funny! I didn't laugh once through the first half of it which is how far I could stand to read. It portrays a pathetic fat slob of a jerk that deserves all the bad that life deals him. It's slow, it's pointless, it's really hard to understand why this is a popular book. Please read the one star reviews as well as the fives before quessing if you'd be a lover or a hater. Yuk.
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Summary: Tooles of the Trade
Review: This has to be the funniest book I have ever read. Ignatius Reilly is out to guide the world towards a rebirth of Medeival values and understanding starting in, of all places, the New Orleans French Quarter. Toole keeps the reader laughing with his tour of Ignatius' psyche and how it is juxtaposed with varied types of southern folk. His use of perspective is astounding. I couldn't more highly recommend a book to anyone.
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Summary: This book has it all!
Review: The funniest book I've read in a long time. Ignatius's antics are enough to make anyone laugh hour after hour.
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Summary: The best novel of the last fifty years
Review: No other work of modern fiction combines humor and poignancy as effectively. Ignatius is Hamlet and Falstaff. He is despicable and noble, self-deluded and brilliant. I have read this novel many times over, and each time I read it I discover new facets.
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Summary: Passer-by, please stop, and read this book!!
Review: I read Confederacy of Dunces a few months back, and can never get over it. It is the sheer brilliance of the author, the way he pours life into his characters, and the seething satire beneath what looks like 24-carat garbage! I forced many of my friends into reading this book. Most of them started unwillingly, and at the end, all of them thanked me for introducing this book to them. Read this book, you will never regret it. It is sad that so brilliant a writer should end his life prematurely.
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Summary: A comical semi-autobiographical story from a great author.
Review: Ignatius, Jones, and the others take you on a hilarious roller coaster tour of the New Orleans pornographic picture industry!!! It is smoking hot with strippers, hookers, gays, and alcoholics centered in the Night Of Joy bar!!!
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Summary: Better than my mother
Review: This book made so much sense, that I want it to give birth to my child. It really gets to the crux of what it is like to be a complete looser in today's society. My mother has tried to teach me this lesson for years. Walker Percy is the true definition of a fiction novelist, unlike my mother.
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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: That pretty much sums it up...hilarious! Excellent book...one of my top 10.
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Summary: Good, but....
Review: ...wouldn't it have been even better 100 pages ligher? Ignatious and the undercover cop are really the only funny characters here. Anything with Mrs. Reilly and Santa was pretty boring. The way all the pieces fit together at the end is very entertaining.
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