![]() ![]() I loved this book and would recommend it to anyone who appreciates this kind of humour. Ignatius is almost an anti-hero he is fat, lazy and full of excuses, however somehow I was cheering for him and his eccentric ways. The wit and vocabulary of Ignatius Reilly had me laughing at almost every page, wishing I had his talent for speech and conversation. Given that I generally don't read books written in the 60s (unless it's a classic), and avoid any book claiming to be 'funny' for fear of cringeworthy slap-stick humour that is ha-ha funny, I was more than pleasantly surprised to find myself totally engrossed in this book! The novel went on to win a Pulitzer Prize, and has now become a classic. His mother found the manuscript and pounded the pavement to get a publisher to read and publish it. The reason I chose this book initially is that it was written in the 1960s and tragically the author committed suicide in 1969 at age 32 without it ever being published. ![]()
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