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Dear /lit/: I've just finished the damn best novel I've ever read.
Has anyone else here read it? Opinions?

>> No.500432

YES! I literally lol'd so many times while reading this book.

R.I.P. John Kennedy Toole

>> No.500431

Yes, I have read The Stranger. It certainly is the best novel ever.

>> No.500433

We've discussed it before, so yeah, we have an audience here.

>> No.500440

Anyone read Neon Bible and have an opinion on it?

>> No.500441

With most works of some quality out there dealing with the tragedy of existance and the unfairness of man towards man, I personally applaud the addition of some fart jokes to the mold.

>> No.500473

One of my favorite books of all time.

>> No.500480

Oh fuck man, I love this book. It's hilarious, one of the few books that makes me laugh out loud.
When he tries to start the riot in the factory, that's superb.

>> No.500503

>>500480
My favourite part is the whole Darlene subplot, specially how it comes the ending together so closely. That and the part when he's talking to Dorian on the street, and he calls him Mary Marvel. That part cracked me up.

>> No.500504

There's a weird "curse" around this book. The writer committed suicide because no one would publish it. It keeps getting film commissions and then cancelled due to weird reasons. Like a few writers have died half way through. They were going to do it with John Belushi, but then he died. Then they were gonna do it fairly recently, but Hurracaine Katrina trashed New Orleans so there was no way they could film it.

>> No.500513

>>500504
Well, someone will do it eventually, I hope.
In fact, CASTING THREAD! I personally sugest Jonah Hill for Ignatius.

>> No.500532

>>500513
Well the most recent adaptation was going to be Will Ferrell. At first I though that was a terrible idea, but thinking about it, I would love to see Ferrell in a fat suit jerking off into a sock and shouting at his mum.

>> No.500544

>>500425

I really liked it. The lead character reminded me SO much of 4channers

>> No.500564

>>500544
Ignacious is definitely the neckbeard prototype. Fat, unwashed pseudo-intellectual who's living with his mother.

>> No.500572

>>500564
>pseudo-intellectual
as if anybody on /v/ even nears his intellect.

>> No.500574

>>500513

Isn't he still a little young? I suggest Artie Lange.

>>500544
>implying 4channers read Boethius

>> No.500576

>>500532
That might have been cool, true, although I'm not sure a fat suit will do the trick.
And Mos Def as Jones is both the worst and the best thing I've ever heard.

>> No.500593

>>500576
hey, he was able to barely do Ford prefect...

>> No.500595

ignatius should be played by fat john c. reilly

>> No.500596

>>500574

The Consolation of Philosophy is fairly uplifting, actually.

>> No.500603

>>500574
Hill is 26, he's in just the right age. Most people that people come up with are more than 35, he should be kind of young-looking, if unkept and generally gross.

>> No.500612

I always think of Ignatius as being a lazy middle aged man, max age of thirty six..

>> No.500615

>>500612
The book establishes him as 30.

>> No.500645

>>500574

You have to remember this was in the 70's. I think, in the 70's, before there were even nerdier and more ridiculous things with which to become obsessed, yes, 4chan types may have read Boethius.

More importantly they would have read Boethius and other medieval crap like that and decided we needed to live in a medieval society and had a massive case of tunnel-vision in terms of their world view, etc.

>> No.500648

>>500615
I meant what kind of actor I pictured...

>> No.500667

>>500645

I imagine lots of tabletop D&D players in the '70s had a similar outlook.

>> No.501014

I could see this getting fucked up as a movie, and then I could also see it being my favorite movie ever.
Belushi was made to play Ignatius...I can't think of anyone else.

>> No.501038

why has this never been adapted for the screen?

>> No.501058

Fuck yes. Best book ever.

>>500440
It was okay. A coming-of-age story by Toole. It's decent.

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>>500440

>> No.501198

I don't know why, but I could see this being better as a play than a movie.

It's weird, I'm not even into theater.