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A Confederacy of Dunces
BillieTheBot
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One of the funniest books ever written. So good that it deserves it's own thread. Like this one.
Go, buy, read & learn to love again.
John Kennedy Toole was a comic genius, which makes his suicide while languishing in obscurity all the more bitter.
Spread the good word people.
Go, buy, read & learn to love again.
John Kennedy Toole was a comic genius, which makes his suicide while languishing in obscurity all the more bitter.
Spread the good word people.
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The start really hooked me. It does go into some very strange places but Toole was such a good writer, it works.
It's a strange one to describe. In essence, it's about a man getting a job in New Orleans. But who the man is, how he acts and how other people respond to him makes it a comic masterpiece.
And it won a Pulitzer.
John Kennedy Toole wrote only one other book, The Neon Bible, which is completely different but pretty good on it's owm merits. Dunces is in a league of it's own though.