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22123274 No.22123274 [Reply] [Original]

is it worth reading or is it a meme?

>> No.22123358

Ignatius is literally (you)

>> No.22123704

>>22123274
If you have an Ivory League education, it would appeal to you.

>> No.22123713

>>22123274
It's not bad. The dynamic between the crusty old woman who just wants to retire and the bored idiotic factory owner's wife projecting her proto-libtard beliefs on her was a highlight. It influential (i.e. copied a lot) so you have to give it that benefit before you judge it as contrived. Definitely worth reading once.

>> No.22123719

Skip the nonsense between Mr and Mrs Levy. Everything else is worth reading

>> No.22123722

It's probably my favorite novel but it's not for everyone. I grew up among the Catholic New Orleans Yats the book is about and I feel like I'd just find a lot of it weird if I didn't already understand the milieu of that culture.

Other than that a lot of it is just obnoxious satire of pseudointellectualism which is pretty funny. It's set in the 1960s but also weirdly prescient about the mannerisms of modern neckbeard e-debate culture.

>> No.22123731

>>22123274
Absolutely. Toole keeps an excellent mix of meta humor, highbrow, lowbrow, and straight-up slapstick. It's like Tintin: anyone can find humor in it, just in different ways

>> No.22123760

>>22123358
listened to the first chapter online.
he's literally me if I was a fatass. Like scarily so, which makes me really insecure if >>22123722
is correct about it being a satire of pseuds

>> No.22123874

>>22123760
>which makes me really insecure if 22123722 is correct about it being a satire of pseuds
anon...

>> No.22123887

>>22123274
It's not as hysterically funny as /lit/ snobs like to say, but it is pretty funny. An amusing sattire about anon from before there was an internet.

>> No.22123899

I don’t know how the whole “A Confederacy of Dunces is comedic/satirical” thing got started. I guess it’s just one of those lit memes like Holden caufield raping phoebe or Lolita being an erotic novel or some shit. Anyway, it’s one of the best portrayals of a man with the world against him. Probably the most profound since The Apology. I’d really recommend if you want to get into the mindset of the normie and understand their malice against nonconformists.

>> No.22123957

>>22123899
>Lolita being an erotic novel
that dreck was first released by a porn publisher I just read recently.
there goes your theory.

>> No.22124195

>>22123957
because every other publisher either read the beginning and thought it was smut or knew the public would think it's smut so nabokov had to go with a smut publisher
but it isn't smut, the only erotic scenes are in the beginning and serve the purpose of displaying Humbert's perversion to the reader. Note that at NO point is intercourse eroticised, it's simply stated. The only erotic scenes are like when Lo puts her legs on Humbert's lap

>> No.22124529

>>22123274
Reads like a parody of a stereotypical /lit/ user, despite being written years before 4chan; even has big titted kike gf. Certainly worth a read if you are already here

>> No.22124741

>>22123899
The world isn't against him wtf are you talking about. Ignatius is a fat retard only preoccupied with himself, and disingenuous with most people around him.

>> No.22124757

>>22124741
The person you're arguing with is literally Ignatius so that's why he feels that way

>> No.22124962

>>22124741
>t. Didn’t grasp the esoteric exegesis of O’toolean freemasonry

>> No.22125119

>>22123274
Absolutely.

>> No.22125130

>>22124529
>Reads like a parody of a stereotypical /lit/ user, despite being written years before 4chan; even has big titted kike gf
obviously these social patterns must necessarily exist, and have existed for a long time, if not always.

>> No.22125137

>>22124195
>everyone read it as smut
>published buy smut peddler
>bought and read by smut fans
>b-but it’s totally not supposed to be erotic!! I swear!!

Nebekov wouldn’t have let it be published by them if he actually had a problem with the smut association.

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22125289

>>22125137
They also published Beckett. If you find these books erotic you're far more perverted than Humbert.

>> No.22125323

>>22123274
A meme? Are you stupid?
That's the cover of a book.

Get off the internet and shut off your phone and go to a fucking library you god damned waste of life.

>> No.22125342

>>22125289
I simply love how these books look. why is that?

>> No.22125345

>>22123274
tf do you think a meme is?

>> No.22125407

>>22125323
>>22125345
how much of a retarded reddit zoomer are you if you think I am referring to the book's cover image as a meme?
Do you know what a meme is?

>> No.22125851

>>22123274
It’s also one of my favorite novels. First time where i wanted to continue reading a book