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Anonymous Sun Nov 11 23:52:22 2012 No.3138515 [DELETED]

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"When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip."

What are /lit/'s thoughts on this book?
Personally, it's my favorite. It was one of the greatest pieces of literature I've ever been exposed to.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 00:00:34 2012 No.3138547 Ok,I'm a pleb. Please tell me what book your talking about?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 00:01:34 2012 No.3138549 It's up there with Don Quixote as my favorite, op. >>3138547 A Confederacy of Dunces

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 00:01:34 2012 No.3138552 >>3138547 >pleb how did you get here? Back you go >>>/mu/

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 00:01:34 2012 No.3138551 I effectively agree.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 00:04:34 2012 No.3138559 >>3138547 "A Confederacy of Dunces" By John Kennedy Toole. If only he had lived to write the rest of the novels in the series... My heard pines for what glorious work he might have wrought...

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 00:04:34 2012 No.3138561 >>3138552 why man why are you doing this

Anonymous Mon Nov 12 00:10:33 2012 No.3138576
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Honestly, I fucking hated it. Quite possibly the worst book I have ever read. Ignatius as a character had such potential, but Toole ruins him, in the most disgusting anti-intellectual way he could think of. I know he was trying for Irony, but it was just dumb, humorless, and plain boring. Nothing was funny about it at all, just ridiculing a fat man with a contempt for social values in a manor that's intellectually on par with reality TV. It doesn't help that everyone else that I've met who likes it has been a humorless moron too.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 00:12:35 2012 No.3138585 >>3138576 >manor His house is akin to those on reality television? So it's quite large and full of money and superficial 20 year olds?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 00:13:35 2012 No.3138589 >>3138576 How uncouth.

Anonymous Mon Nov 12 00:16:36 2012 No.3138602

Without a doubt, the worst collection of individual letters, sentences, paragraphs, and chapters ever assembled in the English language. OP's a faggot and this book is shit. Pure, steaming freshman-workshop shit. The worst book I've ever read. The worst book I'll ever read. The worst protagonist ever. The worst plot ever. The. Worst. Book Ever.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 00:18:35 2012 No.3138612 I'm about half way through but it's not as great as I've heard it to be. I'm kind of bummed. Does it get better?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 00:18:36 2012 No.3138608 >>3138602 And what, might I ask, is your favorite work?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 00:21:35 2012 No.3138624 >>3138608 I'd probably have to pick Lolita.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 00:23:35 2012 No.3138631 >>3138612 It all comes together at the end, just stick with it Anon. This thread sends my pyloric valve into a spasm.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 00:24:35 2012 No.3138638 >>3138612 >Does it get better? No. The characters just get slightly more over-caricatured and annoying.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 00:25:35 2012 No.3138643 >>3138559 Wrote*

Anonymous Mon Nov 12 00:28:38 2012 No.3138657

As soon as i saw the image, I recognized it, even though i read That Book over 3 years ago.
It kind of washed over me when i was reading it, but thinking about it later made me realize how brilliant it is.

I found myself relating to the protagonist. Since i like medieval studies, and think the modern world is basically a travesty. I'm just skinnier and with slightly better fashion sense.

>>3138624

and i fucking loved Lolita too. The ultimate story of ill-fated love, forget Romeo and Juliet.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 00:28:38 2012 No.3138662 >>3138643 No, I meant the word 'wrought' and if I were to change it to 'wrote', grammatically it would have to be replaced with 'written' to be correct and valid. Fall silent, mongoloid, you are causing my pyloric valve to also to spasm.

>>	Fandroid !p6ktXMpsfc Mon Nov 12 00:29:38 2012 No.3138665 I liked it. I should read it over again.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 00:36:30 2012 No.3138691 >>3138657 >I found myself relating to the protagonist. Since i like medieval studies, and think the modern world is basically a travesty. Is this a joke?

Anonymous Mon Nov 12 00:38:31 2012 No.3138693

>>3138576
>just ridiculing a fat man
That's not true. I think Toole and most fans of the book have a genuine affection for Ignatius on some level.

It is usually the people who hate Ignatius, or don't understand why he's considered Quixotic instead of contemptible, that dislike CoD.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 00:47:34 2012 No.3138717 >>3138691 Read some Boethius and get back to us.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 01:17:38 2012 No.3138798 You guys that hate it just need to get a sense of humor.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 01:19:39 2012 No.3138803 File: 3 KB, 126x121, 1295770641708.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I loved it at first, but it got old real quick. I don't know how you had the attention span to do it, OP.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 01:20:39 2012 No.3138807 >>3138798 is that supposed to be ironic?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 01:21:38 2012 No.3138811 I did not find it funny in the slightest. It's cool if that's your thing though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 01:25:38 2012 No.3138827 >>3138811 >>3138803 >>3138638 >>3138602 >>3138576 Same person.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 01:30:41 2012 No.3138833 I think this book is one of those American things. I find most Europeans don't find it funny, it's a little below their intellect, but It fits right in with Americanism. It's on the same level as My Name is Earl and Big Bang Theory.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 01:32:41 2012 No.3138839 >>3138827 Nope. One of those was mine.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 01:35:41 2012 No.3138846 File: 84 KB, 345x250, 1289889289386.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3138827 Don't accuse samefagging just because you have shit taste in lit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 01:37:41 2012 No.3138853 unfunny, painful read

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 01:37:41 2012 No.3138854 >>3138833 >Big Bang Theory Congrats, you just rustled my jimmies.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 01:38:41 2012 No.3138857 >>3138839 >>3138846 Same person.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 01:39:41 2012 No.3138858 It's hilarious if you're a former pretender at culture and can laugh at such a character. If you're a current pretender you might find it nauseating and pointless. The autistic as well may not be inclined to enjoying it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 01:41:42 2012 No.3138861 >>3138858 >pretender at culture

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 01:42:42 2012 No.3138862 >>3138861 Detected.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 01:44:41 2012 No.3138867 >>3138858 Pretender at culture, what the fuck does that even mean Anon?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 01:44:44 2012 No.3138868 >>3138867 It's a polite way of saying 'pseudo-intellectual'

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 01:47:44 2012 No.3138875 >>3138867 Someone who uses facebook and watches reality TV to have something to make smalltalk about. people who do things that society tells them to do.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 01:49:44 2012 No.3138880 >>3138875 No, that's just an average person. A pretender at culture would feel himself above such things without realizing he's far from it

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>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 01:53:44 2012 No.3138890 >>3138887 I know, I know, I know.

Anonymous Mon Nov 12 01:58:45 2012 No.3138908

I really liked the book, but after finishing it I could see and sort of agree why editors were so hesitant to publish it. I'd say my final verdict on the book is that while it meanders a little bit too much, it does have many brilliant moments to justify the wandering.

Anonymous Mon Nov 12 02:11:46 2012 No.3138950

>>3138908
I still don't get why they hesitated. Maybe it was different in the 60s but works of fiction don't need a point to it. The journey is more important than the destination, and besides they publishes countless books that had a point to them and were much less successful. The publishers even greatly enjoyed it, they just were missing that whatever they needed.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 02:13:46 2012 No.3138953 >>3138950 >I still don't get why they hesitated Because the book is drivel for lowest common denominator minds.

Anonymous Mon Nov 12 02:17:48 2012 No.3138965

>>3138953

How so? I found it enormously rewarding as satire, and the laughs were there on nearly every page. The intertextuality of the piece plays to its characterizations well and the dialogue is fucking brilliant. His prose could use a few more chops but it's eminently readable. What were your qualms, exactly?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 02:17:48 2012 No.3138968 >>3138953 Must be why it netted its author a posthumous Pulitzer.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 02:22:48 2012 No.3138982 >>3138965 >and the laughs were there on nearly every page. Murriclaps confirmed for shit tier humour.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 02:23:49 2012 No.3138986 >>3138982 Whether or not something is funny has no bearing on whether you or I find it as such.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 14:10:17 2012 No.3140161 Loved the book. My only complaint is that I loved some characters a lot more than others. I really cannot understand people who dislike this book. I think they're probably boring people and should be shot.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 12 14:22:18 2012 No.3140179 >>3138833 >I think this book is one of those American things You might be on to something. Yuro here, and I passionately hated the half of the book I was able to drag myself through.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 13 03:40:13 2012 No.3142173 My mother loves it and it's one of my sister's favourite books. I didn't care for it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 13 03:42:13 2012 No.3142176 it was scarily reflective of my circumstances.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 13 03:44:13 2012 No.3142178 I have about a hundred pages left. I can already tell its going to be one of those books that makes me that im finished.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 13 03:44:13 2012 No.3142179 >>3142173 sexist

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 13 04:07:16 2012 No.3142203 >>3138833 >Boethius my name is earl is a very funny show. I figured it was fairly popular in the uk because when i was there last year it was on constantly.

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