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A Confederacy of Dunces

(Evergreen Book)

By John Kennedy Toole

(121)

| Paperback | 9780802130204

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The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning classic hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "a masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue." A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one IgContinue

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popmatters published on Mon, 23 Apr 2012

John Kennedy Toole – A Confederacy Of Dunces

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Someone once said this book is like Marmite, either you love it or you hate it.
My experience with Ignatius and his story confirms what this wise person said: there is no way you can remain indifferent to this book. The (sad) matter is that many of the people who read it cannot appreciate it. ... (continue)

Someone once said this book is like Marmite, either you love it or you hate it.
My experience with Ignatius and his story confirms what this wise person said: there is no way you can remain indifferent to this book. The (sad) matter is that many of the people who read it cannot appreciate it.
When I read this book, during a couple of summer nights, I even woke my mother up because I was laughing too loudly. Sad to see how most people cannot stand poor Ignatius and quit reading the book after few chapters, stating they hate him.
I read A Confederacy of dunces only once, in Italian, and although I have a copy in English I am postponing the reading of this amazing novel - that I simply adored from the very first lines - because I want it to be a completely new experience.
I will wait 'till I remember only bits and pieces of this book, then I'll read it as if it were the very first time. I hope it will be such a treat as it was years ago.
If it's not already clear how much I love this book, I'll have to make it clearer: this is the novel the man of my life cannot hate. If he hates Ignatius, he can't love me. (I'm kidding on this, but not too much!?)

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Miss Piggott said on Aug 1, 2007 | Add your feedback

Wildly funny, unique reading experience. Starts out slow but the absurdness is masterfully increased as the book progresses. The protagonist is wonderfully ambiguous, at times incredibly sympathetic, at times absolutely repulsive. This is not a book about anything, but at the same time I have not re ... (continue)

Wildly funny, unique reading experience. Starts out slow but the absurdness is masterfully increased as the book progresses. The protagonist is wonderfully ambiguous, at times incredibly sympathetic, at times absolutely repulsive. This is not a book about anything, but at the same time I have not read many books containing so many spot-on descriptions of humanities shortcomings.

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Kaeru said on Mar 19, 2012 | Add your feedback