Re: A Confederacy of Dunces
I think my favorite book is always changing, but this one is always on the short list. I'm really overdue for a reread.
Re: A Confederacy of Dunces
it's an old friend that i revisit from time to time...
Re: A Confederacy of Dunces
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westofyou
I hate the main character with a passion
Yeah, I like the book but it's hard for me to give it a full endorsement, just because the main guy's so despicable. (I get that he's supposed to be.)
Re: A Confederacy of Dunces
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RichRed
Yeah, I like the book but it's hard for me to give it a full endorsement, just because the main guy's so despicable. (I get that he's supposed to be.)
That's where I fall in too. Quite the idiosyncratic and picturesque book, but I eventually tired of Ignatius.
Re: A Confederacy of Dunces
Ignatius would have loved the internet. Can you imagine the trolling he would have gotten into? :laugh:
Re: A Confederacy of Dunces
come on guys. he's a fictional character, for goodness sake.
:)
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Sweetstop
come on guys. he's a fictional character, for goodness sake.
:)
I agree, the Ignatius hate is a little odd to me. I found him endlessly entertaining and interesting. The back and forth with Myrna, eating dozens of hot dogs, trying to bring down Levy Pants, it's endless for me, really.
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i will say owen meany wins in the battle for my heart...:)
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WMR
I agree, the Ignatius hate is a little odd to me.
Me too. He's too powerless to hate.
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Too ridiculous to hate for me.
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Is there any doubt that Toole would have lived and kept on writing if his work had been properly appreciated before his downward slide into depression and paranoia? It makes me sad to think of all the literature we lost when he took his life.