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This was a story in which none of the characters have anything particularly good or noble about them, but no one is particularly evil, either. Toole introduces, as the anti-hero in his first book, a chap by name of Ignatius. Most of us know at least one chap who has some of Ignatius' personal traits and habits: a bloated gasbag with an eating disorder, poor personal hygiene, an inability to hold a job and no desire to move out of his parents' house. He has attended college for 10 years and has a
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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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