A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0802130208 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Fire-Dragon of Newtown, New South Wales Australia on 7/22/2009
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Journal Entry 1 by Fire-Dragon from Newtown, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, July 22, 2009
From the back cover: A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His 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 adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).

I picked this up from the San Francisco BookCrossing meetup last night. It seems not everyone who goes to the meetup actually uses BookCrossing, so it's fallen to me to register it.

This is one of the books on my top 100 books of the 20th century project: http://bookcentury.blogspot.com

Thanks for sharing. I plan to read and release.

Journal Entry 2 by Fire-Dragon from Newtown, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, March 30, 2010
I enjoyed this book. It was funny, the characters were memorable and I got a flavour of New Orleans several decades ago. I would recommend it as an entertaining read.

However, I didn't love it and I'm not quite sure why it has a reputation as such a masterpiece. It wasn't amazing.

I've passed this on to a friend who grew up in New Orleans.

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