I picked it up on the assurance that it was among the funniest books ever written, but I'm 150+ pages in and I haven't laughed once.
The plot is okay but I'm carrying on mostly because of sunk cost.
I picked it up on the assurance that it was among the funniest books ever written, but I'm 150+ pages in and I haven't laughed once.
The plot is okay but I'm carrying on mostly because of sunk cost.
ignatius is a poster at heart. it's a good book but not every book has to be for everyone.
a rebours by jk hyusmans is a book with similar themes from ~100 years earlier
True. In my mind's ear, Ignatius alternates between sounding like John Candy and a poster friend of mine.
A Rebours strikes me as the kind of thing Toole might have encountered in New Orleans.