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Off-Topic => Off-Topic Ramblings => Topic started by: fitzcarraldo on Oct 09, 2005, 10:13 PM

Title: A Confederacy of Dunces
Post by: fitzcarraldo on Oct 09, 2005, 10:13 PM
Just finished re-reading this:  hilarious, brilliant, genius. Ignatius J. Reilly is one hell of a character. Fans? Shame about Toole huh? my valve...lol
Title: Re: A Confederacy of Dunces
Post by: EC on Oct 09, 2005, 10:45 PM
I have been meaning to read this book for a while.  For a variety of reasons, every time it's supposed to get leant to me, something happens.  (Person moves away before we remember to keep it out of the box, brother forgets that he promised it to his sister, etc.)

Right now I'm reading The Alchemist.  (Not to make this into a thread about either "other books", or The Alchemist, though...)

Yes...  I really want to read this book.
Title: Re: A Confederacy of Dunces
Post by: ycartrob on Oct 09, 2005, 10:51 PM
There are many facets to my being...
Title: Re: A Confederacy of Dunces
Post by: whothrewthecake on Oct 10, 2005, 08:13 AM
great book. one of my prouder moments was finding a hard cover version at my local bookstore.
Title: Re: A Confederacy of Dunces
Post by: ms. yvon on Oct 10, 2005, 05:35 PM
my valve! ha!  ignatius j. reilly, rocks the casbah.  i had pulled my copy of the shelf for a re-read this summer, but loaned it to a friend when she asked me about it.

haven't seen it since...   :(
Title: Re: A Confederacy of Dunces
Post by: BIGVICLBI on Oct 10, 2005, 06:31 PM
Don't know why but I kept waiting for it to get better....and it never did. Add that to Napolean Dynamite as two that got away from me. Just read "Running With Scissors" this afternoon, pretty good but I like my reads longer and more story driven.
Title: Re: A Confederacy of Dunces
Post by: fitzcarraldo on Oct 10, 2005, 10:20 PM
Cool,  Nap Dyn kicks ass as well if you see it twice it just keeps on getting better. It plays like a good record. Whoa! Rare these days (my humble opinion)   :)
Pedro kicks Dubya's ass.