A confederacy of dunces

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• The Price Paid by a Misfit Writer & His Posthumous Reward: 'Butterfly in the Typewriter'

  As an admirer of A Confederacy of Dunces when it appeared (in mass-market Grove paperback for me), the little I found that was marketed back then about John Kennedy Toole tended towards the tortured artist. Walker Percy’s promotion of his fellow Sout ... (read full critics)

  popmatters published on Mon, 23 Apr 2012

• John Kennedy Toole – A Confederacy Of Dunces

  Ben Granger A Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole See all books by John Kennedy Toole at Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com As the ghosts of Ian Curtis and Kurt Cobain will attest, nothing sells like the untimely suicide of a young talent. Dunces was w ... (read full critics)

  spikemagazine published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

5 Reviews

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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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  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

• I had it all summer and tried to read it twice but couldn't get through.

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  Elena Cardone said on Oct 24, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  boring.... worst book of this year...

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  Mastropiero said on Aug 13, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  This is a masterpiece. No way to stop laughing. Read it.

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  Lenz said on Jul 26, 2008 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 415 Pages
• Edition: 1st black cat ed
• ISBN-10: 0394178009
• ISBN-13: 9780394178004
• Publisher: Distributed by Random House
• Pub date: Jan 01, 1981
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding and Others
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