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A confederacy of dunces
This book is quite hillarious. Ignatius J. Riley is 33 and lives with his mother. He is a Don Quixote of 1960s New Orleans as his delusions of grandeur and strange worldview. It seems his time with his mother is a retreat from the world. He has spent ten years in college, at his mother's expense and recently broken up with his girlfriend Myrna. Now he just spends his time at home, in the tub, going to the movies (specifically to mock the "debauchery he sees), or scribbling ...more
This book is quite hillarious. Ignatius J. Riley is 33 and lives with his mother. He is a Don Quixote of 1960s New Orleans as his delusions of grandeur and strange worldview. It seems his time with his mother is a retreat from the world. He has spent ten years in college, at his mother's expense and recently broken up with his girlfriend Myrna. Now he just spends his time at home, in the tub, going to the movies (specifically to mock the "debauchery he sees), or scribbling ...more
I really wanted to love this book because it was recommended by someone I love and who's depth of knowledge when it comes to literature kind of blows my mind. (She was an AP Literature teacher!) I wanted to be able to share enthusiastic notes about this novel with her, and I wanted to appreciate it as much as she does. I did laugh (out loud) a handful of times. And I did LOVE the setting of the book (New Orleans, French Quarter) for the nostalgia and reminiscing of my time in Louisiana. But oh h
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A tale of the absurd.
While Ignatius might be one of the most frustrating characters on the one hand, you can't help but laugh at how absolutely ridiculous his philosophy/worldview is. This book flowed so easily and it was hard to imagine I was done with the simultaneous feeling of so much and so little happening in one book. In this way(as well as the main character's "harsh" criticisms of those around him), this is very similar to a Catcher in the Rye to the delusionth power. I can most certain ...more
While Ignatius might be one of the most frustrating characters on the one hand, you can't help but laugh at how absolutely ridiculous his philosophy/worldview is. This book flowed so easily and it was hard to imagine I was done with the simultaneous feeling of so much and so little happening in one book. In this way(as well as the main character's "harsh" criticisms of those around him), this is very similar to a Catcher in the Rye to the delusionth power. I can most certain ...more
I'm still not sure what to think of this book. I know for certain that I did not find it funny. the characters were grotesque and depressing caricatures. I'm not sure why it won a Pulitzer Prize. The only good thing I can say about it is that the plot was well woven and almost Dickensian in its complexity.
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I got 8% in and decided life is too short to continue with a book I really am not enjoying.
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