Has anyone else read this bizarre book? I just found out it will be a movie next year - this may be really good!
The author (John Kennedy Toole, I think. It's been a long time) killed himself without getting the book published, his Mother found the manuscript, submitted it and it won a Pulitzer prize. Extremely funny, though at times dark, book. Anyone else?
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I started it once, several years ago, but got distracted and never finished it. I've always meant to pick it up again. It's one of my husbands favorite books. The parts I remember were very funny. We went to New Orleans recently, and there is a statue of Ignatius P. Reilly on Canal street. I think John Kennedy Toole was from there. Still a weird thing to find standing in the middle of the sidewalk though.
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I've heard of it, and of the author's suicide, but I never have gotten around to reading it.
"We probably could have saved ourselves, but we were too damned lazy to try very hard... and too damn cheap." - Kurt Vonnegut
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"Now if you remember all great paintings have an element of tragedy to them. Uh, for instance if you remember from last week, the unicorn was stuck on the aircraft carrier and couldn't get off. That was very sad. " - Kids in the Hall