A Confederacy of Dunces
10 journalers for this copy...
Pre-numbered label used for registration. New hardcover book.
To send to JennyO.
sent to JennyO via media mail.
Read this book many, many moons ago, but so many people have told me lately that it's their favorite book, I want to go back and reread it. (I have NO idea what happened to the original copy I had. Thank God for BookCrossing...) Thank you so much for sharing it with me solittletime!
Currently reserved for jmg49 when I'm through. Will change journal entry if this changes.
I had solittletime send me this book because I read it years ago...when I read it then, I didn't much care for it. Then I saw tons and tons of reviews that said what a terrific novel it was. It even won the Pulitzer. I thought, okay, maybe I was just too young to appreciate it. So, I picked it up again yesterday. By this afternoon, I'd read half of it, and I still don't much care for it. It's well written, the characters are interesting, Toole has the New Orleans patois down pat, it has a decent plot...and I still don't care for it. I think it's because I can't stand the protagonist. Ignatius J. Reilly is fat, obnoxious, lazy, paranoid, erudite, gassy, probably clinically insane. I can't find it in me to care what happens to him (unless he gets run over by a truck in the end; that would be okay).
I won't read the last couple hundred pages. My TBR stack is too big. I'll set it aside to send to jmg49 (I'm waiting for Lost in a Good Book, and I'll send them together). I'm sure it will be more appreciated there. I seem to be the only person in the world that doesn't like it.
Thanks for letting me try it again, solittletime!
I won't read the last couple hundred pages. My TBR stack is too big. I'll set it aside to send to jmg49 (I'm waiting for Lost in a Good Book, and I'll send them together). I'm sure it will be more appreciated there. I seem to be the only person in the world that doesn't like it.
Thanks for letting me try it again, solittletime!
Thanks JennyO. I'll read and release it.
I just could not get into this book and have offered it in a bookray. Amazon.com's reviews are complimentary so it must be a personal thing.
I have started a bookray for "A Confederacy of Dunces".
So far these bookcrossers have joined:
aannddee Minnesota USA.
pulpmode Minnesota USA
squirrel818 Minnesota USA
Rhinowriter North Carolina USA
sarajenni New York USA
YowlYY England UK
kymberlie Texas USA
kalipriestess Florida USA
arugh48187 Minnesota USA
weeblet Virginia USA
Theresa-A - England
Above is the current order of the bookray. It is still open to new members.
Before each person is ready to send the book on, he or she should send the next person on the list a pm asking for their address.
So far these bookcrossers have joined:
aannddee Minnesota USA.
pulpmode Minnesota USA
squirrel818 Minnesota USA
Rhinowriter North Carolina USA
sarajenni New York USA
YowlYY England UK
kymberlie Texas USA
kalipriestess Florida USA
arugh48187 Minnesota USA
weeblet Virginia USA
Theresa-A - England
Above is the current order of the bookray. It is still open to new members.
Before each person is ready to send the book on, he or she should send the next person on the list a pm asking for their address.
Journal Entry 10 by jmg49 at Controlled Release in Woodstock, Ontario Canada on Tuesday, August 5, 2003
Released on Tuesday, August 05, 2003 at Bookray By Mail in Woodstock, Ontario Canada.
Mailing to aanddee in Minnesota.
Mailing to aanddee in Minnesota.
Just received this book today in the mail. Thank you jmg49! I'll be starting this book right away so that it can move along to the next person on the list.
I have finished this very strange book, and will be handing it off to pulpmode over lunch hour today. Good luck!!
Just got the book today in a hand off from aannddee (Thanks again!). I will read it and send it on as soon as humanly possible.
peace
UPDATE: 10/14/03
I haven't found the time to even get half way thru this book and don't know if I will any time soon. Since it's not fair to the others in the ring I will simply pass the book on to the next person in the ring. What little I did read (first 3 chapters) I found to be entertaining and thought provoking even though I was annoyed by the main character, Ignatius Reilly. I will find a used copy of this book in the future and make a complete journal entry here so that I can leave a thorough opinion on it. Thanks for including me in the ring!
Mailing the book to SQUIRREL818 in Eagan, MN on 10/15/03...enjoy the book SQUIRREL818!
peace.
peace
UPDATE: 10/14/03
I haven't found the time to even get half way thru this book and don't know if I will any time soon. Since it's not fair to the others in the ring I will simply pass the book on to the next person in the ring. What little I did read (first 3 chapters) I found to be entertaining and thought provoking even though I was annoyed by the main character, Ignatius Reilly. I will find a used copy of this book in the future and make a complete journal entry here so that I can leave a thorough opinion on it. Thanks for including me in the ring!
Mailing the book to SQUIRREL818 in Eagan, MN on 10/15/03...enjoy the book SQUIRREL818!
peace.
I signed up for thi ring and will read this book asap.
what an interesting book. I'm quite glad Iread it. I did however detest the main character with his sloth and laziness. I wonder if that was the point?
Journal Entry 16 by squirrel818 at Controlled Release in -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings , web, North Carolina USA on Friday, January 2, 2004
Released on Friday, January 02, 2004 at TO A FELLOW BOOKCROSSER in Asheville, North Carolina USA.
Received this as part of a bookray. Looking forward to reading it. Hope my expectations of it are in line.
Toole is the master of characterization. I have never before read a book where the characters were so vividly, and what appears to be effortlessly, drawn. Without going into wordy descriptions Toole manages to paint his characters into the reader’s mind through their interactions with each other and their internal dialogues. Even when the plot got a bit bogged down around the middle I was still willing to go on just to see what Toole was going to do with his characters. This book is a true original and it will be a long time before we see the likes of it again. Books this deftly created come along once in a lifetime.
Journal Entry 19 by Rhinowriter at Controlled Release in -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings , web, North Carolina USA on Wednesday, February 4, 2004
Released on Wednesday, February 04, 2004 at TO A FELLOW BOOKCROSSER in Asheville, North Carolina USA.
Mailed this book off today to the next person on the bookray.
Mailed this book off today to the next person on the bookray.
I received this book a couple of weeks ago. Sorry for the late journal, it has been a very busy stretch of school. However, I will have more reading time starting next week. Thanks jmg49.
I've just started this now. Hopefully I can finish it in the next couple of weeks. Thanks solittletime and jmg49.
I have finally finished this. Sorry it took so long. I've been busy graduating and looking for a job these past weeks.
I know that a lot of people love this book. Almost everyone I've spoken to, with the exception of one person, loved Confederacy... I can't say that I did. I admire the creation of the characters. I admire the writing. But I had to force myself to slog through almost every page. I pretty much hated every character in the book, and not in the amused/bemused way. Just hated. I gave it a 5 because, like I said, I admire the craft of the book, but I did not like it. Sending a PM to the next person on the list to get the address.
I know that a lot of people love this book. Almost everyone I've spoken to, with the exception of one person, loved Confederacy... I can't say that I did. I admire the creation of the characters. I admire the writing. But I had to force myself to slog through almost every page. I pretty much hated every character in the book, and not in the amused/bemused way. Just hated. I gave it a 5 because, like I said, I admire the craft of the book, but I did not like it. Sending a PM to the next person on the list to get the address.
Journal Entry 23 by sarajenni at By Mail in sent to a fellow bookcrosser, Bookring -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, June 2, 2004
Released on Wednesday, June 02, 2004 at ... by mail :) in Sent to a fellow BookCrosser, Bookring Controlled Releases.
Sending on the the next in the ring.
--sarajenni
Sending on the the next in the ring.
--sarajenni
This book greeted me welcome when I arrived in the office this morning. Thanks to sarajenny for shipping it the quickest way ;-)
I have two bookrings now on the go to finish, and I will start reading this asap.
I have two bookrings now on the go to finish, and I will start reading this asap.
This book has been described by a reader, who wrote a critic on Amazon, as "The Literary Equivalent of Marmite", and I completely agree with him. You either love it or hate it - and the reviews so far have proved this point.
The novel made me laugh out loud like Joe Lansdale's, although it's a different line of story altogether. Still, I enjoyed very much the characterisation of the people in the novel...and the winner of all is chain-smoking Jones!! I agree with most readers, Ignatius J.Reilly is a real slob, vicious and nasty, bad behaving, full of prejudices and misanthropy to the excess, hence very easy to dislike, but for me the most disgusting figure was Mrs. Levy, don't you agree?
*** WARNING *** SPOILER BELOW ***
The final is epic... I loved the scene in Bourbon Street in front of the Night of Joy, and the happy ending for constable Mancuso, who get promotion, and Jones, who finally will get a job and an award from Mr. Levy (and maybe will work part-time as informer for the po-lice? LOL), but for my sense of justice I would have liked to see Ignatius picked up by the Charity Hospital workers...that poor mum deserves a life! :-D
The book is now ready to be shipped to kymberlie tomorrow...happy reading and thanks for starting this bookray :-)
The novel made me laugh out loud like Joe Lansdale's, although it's a different line of story altogether. Still, I enjoyed very much the characterisation of the people in the novel...and the winner of all is chain-smoking Jones!! I agree with most readers, Ignatius J.Reilly is a real slob, vicious and nasty, bad behaving, full of prejudices and misanthropy to the excess, hence very easy to dislike, but for me the most disgusting figure was Mrs. Levy, don't you agree?
The final is epic... I loved the scene in Bourbon Street in front of the Night of Joy, and the happy ending for constable Mancuso, who get promotion, and Jones, who finally will get a job and an award from Mr. Levy (and maybe will work part-time as informer for the po-lice? LOL), but for my sense of justice I would have liked to see Ignatius picked up by the Charity Hospital workers...that poor mum deserves a life! :-D
The book is now ready to be shipped to kymberlie tomorrow...happy reading and thanks for starting this bookray :-)
I received this recently but forgot to journal it. Oops! Going on my to be read pile.
