stuff (Confed. of Dunces)

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Tyler Hewitt <tahewitt at y...>
wrote:
> Hi
> New to this list (Subbed to HP for Grownups about 1 
> 1/2 weeks ago)
> 
> ... thought instead I'd throw my two cents in about A Confederacy 
> of Dunces, which was recommended here recently. I read that book 
> last summer after hearing people rave about it for years. I don't
> know, I just didn't think it was that great. There were some funny 
> parts, but overall I found it just kind of sat there for me. 
> ...edited...
> 
> For funny books, I have to recommend nearly anything
> by Daniel Pinkwater. ...edited....
>
> Tyler

bboy_mn who recommended the book replies:

And I like vanilla ice cream, but my friends all like chocolate. Well,
except for those real oddballs who like strawberry, but we don't talk
about them.  ;) (humor, in case it didn't come through)

'A Confederacy of Dunces', as I'm sure you will confirm, is a very
very unusual book; with a writing style like no other. So certainly
some people are going to find it a little odd... well, very odd. And
because it is very unusual, that quirkiness is not going to work for
some people. It does tend to have long running dialogs as we read what
Ignatius is currently writing in his journal, and since the guy is a
bit barmy, his writing takes on an additional strangeness. But in a
way that's the humor, the absurdity of the oddball collection of
strange characters and poor souls whose path cross in the strangest of
ways. Calling it a comedy doesn't quite do it justice. It's more like
a roll on the floor, bust a gut, laugh out loud tragedy.  

But I think in general, most people will find it satisfyingly funny.
Like I said they don't give away Pulitzer Prizes like peanuts. You
have to seroiusly impress somebody to get one.

Thanks for the heads up on Daniel Pinkwater, that does sound like
something I might enjoy.


bboy_mn