| iouliared | 07 Jun 2009 3:26 p.m. PST |
Re-read this twice, once 10 years ago, and now last week. I've never encountered characters like these. If you've been putting this off to read, don't, it's a funny summer read. Has anyone read his other book called the Neon Bible? What did you think of it? |
| kyoteblue | 07 Jun 2009 3:55 p.m. PST |
I love The Confederacy of Dunces and didn't know he had another book!!!! Thanks!!! |
| Space Monkey | 07 Jun 2009 6:01 p.m. PST |
I didn't know he'd ever written another book either. For whatever reason Confederacy Of Dunces seems to be a book that has far more male fans than female. I know an English Lit professor who says she's tried to read it on several occasions and just can't seem to get interested. |
| Some other name | 07 Jun 2009 6:40 p.m. PST |
I didn't know he had another book either. I do know Confederacy of Dunces came out after his death. IIRC, his mom kept pestering some prof at LSU to read it. Once he did he recommended the LSU Press to publish it and it became a Pulitzer Prize winner. |
| iouliared | 07 Jun 2009 8:39 p.m. PST |
I read that the other book was rejected at first and then after the success of TCODs it was finally published. The sad part in TCODs is a part when the main character says to his friend that he won't leave any of his writing tablets behind in case his Mother would try to sell them after his death…. |
| Space Monkey | 07 Jun 2009 10:22 p.m. PST |
Shades of Kafka… asking his friend to burn all his writings after his death… which, luckily, he didn't. |
| xxxxxxxxooooo | 08 Jun 2009 5:25 a.m. PST |
Small world… My mother was a student of JKT when she was at Dominican in New Orleans. She has always told me that she did some of the re-typing (wayyyyy pre-Computer era) of one of the drafts. After JKT's death his mother took the manuscipt to the writer Walker Percy, who was a professor at Loyola U in New Orleans at the time. (BTW- my mom's current dog is named Toole) The "Neon Bible" is not nearly as good, I would instead recommend "Managing Ignatius" by Jerry Strahan. It is a book by a longtime manager at "Lucky Dog" who was in charge of the real employees that the character Ignatius J. Reilly was based on. Hysterically funny and strange. |
| jpattern2 | 08 Jun 2009 2:23 p.m. PST |
I first read it, what, 25 years ago? and again about 10 years ago. Might be time to read it again.
You have to love a protagonist who sucks the jelly out of donuts . . . And then puts them back!
:)
There has been talk over the years of turning it into a movie, going all the way back to the '80s, but nothing ever comes of it. |
 John the OFM  | 22 Jun 2009 5:58 p.m. PST |
Everything I had read about it from those who loved it, convinced me that I should stay away from it.
The whole concept of a bitter nerd who hates the world he lives in and rails against it was just too irritating for me. |
