Recommend - A Confederacy of Dunces by Toole

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

Can I recommend a book to everyone? If you are looking for something
interesting to read, I HIGHLY recommend 'A Confereracy of Dunces' by
John Kennedy Toole.

This book is hysterically LAUGH OUT LOUD funny. It won  a Pulitzer
Prize for comedy. And, you know they don't just hand out Pulitzer
Prizes like peanuts at a ball game. 

"What a delight, what a roaring, rollicking, footstomping wonder this
book is? I laughed until my sides ached and then I laughed on."
-Henry Kisor, 'Chicago Sun-Times'

That just about says it all. I've read this book three times, and when
I read it again last night, I laughed until I had tears in my eyes. 

If this book doesn't make you laugh out loud, then, I swear, you are
made of stone.

Set in New Orleans, it is the most unlikely collection of oddballs and
misfits to ever grace the written page.

The main character is the hyper-intellectual, slovenly, slothful
self-prcalimed savior of the modern world, who demands that the world
conform to his view of decency and geometry. A man out of place, out
of time, and thoroughly out of his cake eating, Dr. Nut drinking,
ranting raving mind. Meet Mr. Ignatius J. Reilly.

"This story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New
Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the
zaniest series of high and low comic advantures." 
-Henry Kisor - 'Chicago Sun-Times'

"A masterwork of comedy.... The novel astonishes with its
inventiveness, it's lives in the play of it's voices, 'A Confederacy
of Dunces' in nothing less than a grand comic fugue."
-The New York Times Book Review

I'm not kidding, it is not humanly possible to read this book and not
laugh out loud.

"I found myself laughing out loud again and again as I read this
ribald book" - The CHRISTIAN Science Monitor



"A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
An Evergreen Book Published by Grove Press
Copyright 1980
First Edtition 1987

Sadly the author only wrote on other book before his untimely death by
tragic circumstances. His other book "The Neon Bible" is equal in it's
absurdity and hilarity. I highly recommend them both. The author was
an unprecidented genius, and the loss of his life is a monumental loss
to the world of literature.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

bboy_mn