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Summary: Don't believe the hype (or the awards)
Review: I don't know why I wasted my time finishing this book, given the fact that there are so many finer works out there to read. I give it a half star.The plot is useless, the main character does nothing but pontificate on uninspiring topics, the remaining characters are flat. I enjoy a good laugh and have a mischievous streak in me, but this book never once made me laugh. Why is that?
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Summary: Absolutely Astounding!
Review: Ignatius J. Reilly is alive and well and living all over this country! Such a masterful character who is rarely encountered with such depth and reality. We are all the poorer for John Kennedy Toole's early demise.
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Summary: My all-time favorite book
Review: Having lived in New Orleans at one time, I have a great appreciation for the humor, dialect, etc. that makes this book extra extra special, funny, and all-consuming. For the people who did not find this 4 or more stars: visit New Orleans (because anyone who has ever spent more than 2 days with "locals" totally understands this book. And no, it's not the same if you're a "tourist" and your only experience with Louisiana is via a hotel chain). If you haven't been to New Orleans, will you find this book great/funny/well-written? Yes; open up your mind and let John Kennedy Toole lead you on the most colorful journey of your life!
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Summary: Unforgettable!
Review: I discover something new each time I read this and it just keeps getting better and funnier. Where did this guy (Toole) come from and why aren't there more storytellers like him? IF there are, I'd like to know about them. Very Entertaining and Unforgettable!
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Summary: There's a damn good reason it won the Pulitzer
Review: This book is nothing short of absolute genius. True, it's hilarious. However, it's hard not to notice the ominous parallels between the life of Ignatius and that of the author. John Kennedy Toole saw through his eyes daily, the famed "Great Folly of Man", and it made him sick. Sadly,he took his own life to save himself from the barrage of corruption and blindness of the Truth. After a second reading, I came to a great realization. Ignatius isn't Toole. He's everybody whether they admit it or not. Deep down we are ALL eccentric, and not that different from the "crazies" we shun. We're all in the same boat, and nobody has ever expressed this in words better than Toole. One thing's for sure: Toole is in a much better place now. It's up to us to see through all the bulls*** we call "normal". Peace.
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Summary: Too Bad You Can't Give Negative Stars
Review: The people who award the Pulitzer prizes must have had some sort of collective madness when they chose this abomination. If a few hundred pages on farting are your idea of great literature, then by all means, buy this book.
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Summary: Best American novel this century
Review: It is hard to imagine the sensibilities of the reader who dislikes this book. True, Ignatius and most of the other characters are not admirable, but since when is that a legitimate criterion for a first-rate novel? The characters absolutely come to life and inhabit the mind of the reader. One laughs at them but with some misgivings. As for the plot, it is ingenious. The ending is perfect, because it lets the reader decide just how far from New Orleans the Renault went before the explosion occurred. Moreover, the book is universal. It could be set in any country, any city, at any time in history. There have always been characters such as Ignatius, Mancuso, Miss Trixie et al. I can only pity the drab and wretched lives of those who failed to enjoy this book, the best comic novel since Huck Finn and certainly one of the best Ameican novels.
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Summary: In every page you will burst in laughter
Review: Its such a fantastic book that you will on laughing for several weeks after you finished it reading. Its not easy to find such creativity. I just regret that the author is dead so that we can not get any more ot its marvelous works.
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Summary: So unapoligitically "in your face", you won't put it down.
Review: Vividly drawn characters of the lower class locals in New Orleans, LA don't stand a chance against the gargantuan size, wit and appetites of Mr.Ignatius J. Reilly. He's a comically tragic man/child who lives life with mother in repulsively breathtaking self-absorbed abandon. His days are spent ralling against ALL offenses to his reason (real or imagined). Results range silly to serious and are every bit as offensive as Mr. Reilly himself. The ending is a cliff-hanging surprise (in tune with the unpredictability of the characters) leaving the reader wanting for more. THIS IS A MUST READ. Rarely does anything come along that so richly deserves the description "unique."
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Summary: I love this book and I couldn't put it down
Review: I loved it!!!!!! To put it bluntly, this has to be one of my favorite books. All of the characters were beautifully described, and with each scene, the reader felt that they were there. I wish that the author could realize how much joy he brought into our lives by writing it.
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