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Ended dry spell on trip to New Orleans (5 total in Feb) Taking ?s (Charles XII)
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Date: February 21st, 2018 12:58 AM Author: Vermilion 180 tattoo site 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. |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 12:59 AM Author: Pearl spot ladyboy very glad to see you finally review this book. yeah you're an easy comparison to ignatius (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899185&forum_id=2#35450363) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 1:02 AM Author: Vermilion 180 tattoo site The whole "watching trashy cinema while bewailing the downfall of civilization" aspect was alarmingly on the nose. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899185&forum_id=2#35450375) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 1:01 AM Author: honey-headed passionate market (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899185&forum_id=2#35450369) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 1:02 AM Author: Flirting Cordovan Stage What is the funnest non-fiction history book, subjectively, you've read? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899185&forum_id=2#35450374) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 1:06 AM Author: Vermilion 180 tattoo site 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:
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Date: February 21st, 2018 1:12 AM Author: Flirting Cordovan Stage Thanks! I did mean just the most fun read, not necessarily funny (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899185&forum_id=2#35450411) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 1:02 AM Author: Rose cruel-hearted people who are hurt that book is 180. the scene with the blue collar guy trying to get himself to read boethius because ignatius made him feel bad stuck with me for some reason. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899185&forum_id=2#35450377) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 1:14 AM Author: Vermilion 180 tattoo site Same, and it evoked something about the power great works can have even on proles if they are somehow driven to read it. Makes me furious whenever I see schools junking "dead white males" for more "relevant" literature. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899185&forum_id=2#35450420) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 1:04 AM Author: kink-friendly alpha And it was finally published because his dear mother never gave up trying to get someone to read it after he died. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899185&forum_id=2#35450387) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 1:43 AM Author: Vermilion 180 tattoo site Doing a work project right now, but once it's done (hopefully around mid-March) I may order a couple lib books and do an XO read-through similar to Christian Nation. Think I'd do it for that Ferguson-ripoff novel that got a lot of attention, plus the one about Muslims in hiding in Trump's America that pissed off libs by having a White Savior. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899185&forum_id=2#35450520) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 1:48 AM Author: Ultramarine Newt if you're into masochism for the greatbort's sake, look up "the years of rice and salt"; it would be interesting to see you run through a alternate history and compare it to the actual history to see how implausible it is. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899185&forum_id=2#35450534) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 1:59 AM Author: Vermilion 180 tattoo site Oh, another thought: Apparently they were going to make a movie adaptation with John Candy, but then he died and the film has been lost in development hell. That sucks because Candy would totally have made a great Ignatius, and the early 90s is probably the last period the book could have been adapted without massively altering its content to placate shitlibs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899185&forum_id=2#35450580) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 2:08 AM Author: Rose cruel-hearted people who are hurt ah man, that sucks! that would've been awesome (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899185&forum_id=2#35450617) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 2:07 AM Author: spruce stead lettuce Did you also have sex with the book? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899185&forum_id=2#35450614) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 2:08 AM Author: Vermilion 180 tattoo site While the book itself quite frequently alludes to onanism, no, I did not. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899185&forum_id=2#35450619) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 10:40 AM Author: lascivious party of the first part "Myrna is preparing to bray at some unfortunate Negro. In public." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899185&forum_id=2#35451596) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 11:54 AM Author: sable gunner degenerate what's the tragic angle (other than the author killselfing)? Didn't he get away from his bitch mom in the end and escape the mental hospital? he is going to go to NYC and produce scholarship with myrna, right? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899185&forum_id=2#35452077) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 12:22 PM Author: Vermilion 180 tattoo site I don't think the mom is supposed to be entirely unsympathetic, so the fact her last act in the book is abandoning her son to be seized by asylum workers is pretty tragic imo.
Plus, the end of the book is effectively Ignatius being driven from the city because it has no place for him. Better than being sent to the loony bin but not ideal. |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 12:25 PM Author: lime concupiscible giraffe Going to read this and report back, thank. Started it a few months ago and got a few chapters in, was great, not sure why I stopped. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899185&forum_id=2#35452281) |