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Date: February 21st, 2018 12:58 AM Author: chocolate shrine
Just completed A Confederacy of Dunces, which has been recommended to me dozens of times but which I'd never actually finished until now.
Pretty good book, although perhaps a bit long. The core of the book is clearly Ignatius Reilly and his bizarre relationship with the mostly-distant Myrna Minkoff. Reilly is a great character who I've been compared with somewhat often IRL (which is both good and bad, I suppose), and Minkoff complements him well. The other characters are mostly decent (I enjoyed the Levy's hostile relationship, as well as the brief cuts to the LSU professor) although I'll confess I didn't get that much enjoyment from the many, many scenes of Jones getting abused at the Night of Joy.
The book also ended up having more of a tragic angle to it than I expected, even after Walker Percy warned me in the introduction. It's absolutely a funny book too, but it has a more genuinely serious subtext than a purely superficial humorous novel. The tragedy, of course, is enhanced by that of the author, who killselfed at 31 in part because he couldn't get anybody to publish his book.
I finally got my big shipment of Evelyn Waugh books. Hoping I can blast through a bunch of them in quick succession. Maybe we can cram another two books or even three books into the final days of February.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899185&forum_id=2#35450356) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 1:06 AM Author: chocolate shrine
The core thrust of it is certainly not comedic, but there's an awful lot of funny shit in Shelby Foote's big Civil War trilogy, mostly because the Civil War was such an utterly strange conflict at times.
I made a whole thread on it:
http://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3259493&mc=73&forum_id=2
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899185&forum_id=2#35450391) |
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