I don't often give up on a book, and I have never found the first forty or so pages of a book so interesting and fun to then, forty more pages on or so, give up. Once the main character was established, the novel becomes a series of repetitions upon a similar theme. Maybe the author wished him to be...
A Confederacy of Dunces has been on my radar forever, as those who love it state it is one of their favorite novels of all time. Now that I have finished it, I can see why people love it. Ignatius and his mother, Miss Trixie and the Levys, Patrolman Mancuso and the entire cast of characters are so i...
I got it. I got the humor, I got what the author was trying to say. I just didn't like it. I appreciate the writing and the cleverness that made this a Pulitzer Prize winner. I'm giving it three stars because I recognize that it's well-written and would appeal to those with a taste for picaresque ch...
Mildly amusing and thematically thin, A Confederacy of Dunces had me wondering what all the hype was about. Of all things, it had me comparing it to John Steinbeck's Cannery Row, another novel about eccentric down-and-outers. Yet while Cannery Row was alive with Steinbeck's rhapsodic prose, the styl...
I started reading this because I'd heard that several attempts have been made to turn this into a movie, but none have progressed at all. After reading the first few chapters and promptly returning it to the library, I am glad the movie hasn't happened.The main character is unsufferably obnoxious! ...
One of the funniest books I have ever read and certainly the greatest of all New Orleans novels. The humor is a little overshadowed by the tragic story of the author, but try to set that aside and enjoy the book for its own merits.
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