A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
3 ratings since posting on Saturday, October 28, 2006
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the book was a great read. I could not stop laughing at times. There were moments where i thought, "this can't get any funnier," but it kept being funnier. Ignatius, truly is an unconventional genius that was far ahead of his time in the book. Great read, and highly recommend the book to anyone interested for a good laugh. - Armando , posted 11/29/07 |
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I can't stop talking about New Orleans, I am in love with the city. A friend at work that studied english literature had just about enough of my amorous blathering on the subject and suggested this book to me. Living in a cookie cutter prefab american town now, Raleigh (which unfortunatley has history but no soul), the story came completly alive for my heartsong of a city that lives and breathes with the people which live on it's streets and withtin it's walls. The book's central character Ignatius is the voice of the disenfranchised intellectual that senses the failure in cookie cutter society. He identifies the source of all the evils that haunt his world, and in his own hilariously staunch narrations paints the bleak opacity of it's source. I started researching the story and it's author after my first day reading it. The books author Toole commited suicide after it had been rejected for publication because he refused to edit it's content to suit the publisher. It wasn't until ten years later in 1980 that his mother discovered the carbon copies of it, read it and discerened it as a work of genius. She immediatly sent the manuscript to local university professors and found Walker Percy willing to read it. LSU printed it later that year. Consequently recieving the nobel prize for literature the following year. A first edition copy of the book is worth about 2,000 dollars. Anyway, I haven't written book report in a long time so I hope I haven't desuaded you in giving the story a chance. On a side note the book had a screenplay written for it, which had a full cast reading late last year. Some very cool people are interested in producing it so I think it will eventually get made. Although securing rights have created a major stumbling block for the production. Some say that the story is cursed, they have been trying to make this movie for more than twenty years and issues keep coming in the way, perhaps it is a haunted story. - joshua , posted 10/28/06 |
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole was recommended for:
- Tribe: CREATIVE WRITING
- Tribe: Free Write
- Tribe: LeRue Press Reno
