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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Just out of curiosity... #179758 10/23/2008 2:52 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Have any of y'all read A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole? It's our next book club selection (IRL, I mean). I'm partway into it, and, while it's not the type of book I would normally enjoy, I can at least see the humor in it. And I was just wondering what you-all may have thought. Apparently it's a true story, that the author's mother persevered until she got someone to publish it, years after her son's death. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Just out of curiosity... Jackie #179761 10/23/2008 4:15 AM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh The someone was Walker Percy. Yes, I've read it, and I enjoyed it. "Oh, my valve!" Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Just out of curiosity... zmjezhd #179768 10/23/2008 11:07 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 I read it a long time ago and seem to remember having enjoyed it. HTH. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Just out of curiosity... Faldage #179777 10/23/2008 3:03 PM Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 557 Dallas, TX Myridon addict Myridon addict Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 557 Dallas, TX I wrote an essay on it as "my favorite book" for a college application. Though it probably was one of my favorite books, I picked it to write about because I was living in New Orleans at the time and had some connections to Walker Percy's family which I shamelessly leveraged to make my essay more "interesting" (or so I thought at the time anyway). Last edited by Myridon; 10/23/2008 3:03 PM. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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