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Why is this book so highly praised? Do most people relate with Ignatius?
Maxine I'm with you. I can't understand why this book is so highly rated. I found the humor sophomoric, on the level of the Three Stooges--which, I guess, so…moreI'm with you. I can't understand why this book is so highly rated. I found the humor sophomoric, on the level of the Three Stooges--which, I guess, some people do find funny. I'm not one of them. Far from being able to identify with Ignatius, I found him revolting. His total inability to relate to or empathize with any other person, his prudishness and judgmentalism, his sense of superiority are all very off-putting. As if that weren't enough, his constant complaints about his "valve", and the physical descriptions of him are literally nauseating. I've never read about another character who literally sickened me. Baffled by this book's popularity.(less)
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by John Kennedy Toole
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