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bela:
Except for hes not fat and hes not a mama's boy.
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:13:22 am)

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Released by Louisiana State University Press in April 1980, A Confederacy of Dunces is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon. Turned down by countless publishers and submitted by the author's mother years after his suicide, the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Today, there are over 1,500,000 copies in print worldwide in eighteen languages." "Set in New Orleans, A Confederacy of Dunces outswifts Swift, one of whose essays gives the book its title. As its characters burst into life, they leave the region and literature forever changed by their presences - Ignatius and his mother; Miss Trixie, the octogenarian assistant accountant at Levy Pants; inept, wan Patrolman Mancuso; Darlene, the Bourbon Street stripper with a penchant for poultry; Jones, the jivecat in space-age dark glasses. Satire and farce animate A Confederacy of Dunces; tragic awareness ennobles it." "Louisiana State University Press celebrates A Confederacy of Dunces' twentieth year with this anniversary edition, which includes a new introduction by Andrei Codrescu that examines the relationship of this modern-day classic to the city whose pulse it so brilliantly captures.
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:14:16 am)

Heruka:
Here's MArtha delivering a a basket of her eggs for artifical insemination in a more youthful female.

(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:15:00 am)

Heruka:
Marthas are just a way for eggs to make more eggs.
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:15:57 am)

Detlef Sping:
Martha Stewart, is an eggs way of making more chickens
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:16:37 am)

bela:
Has anyone on this board read or heard of this book?
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:16:49 am)

bela:
Pah...
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:16:58 am)

Detlef Sping:
Doh ..I need soup. Auf.
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:17:01 am)

Heruka:
I no like humour in literature. That's what Seinfelds for.
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:17:42 am)

Heruka:
And Far Side calenders
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:18:11 am)

Heruka:
I can't say I've ever read a book that was humorous.
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:20:05 am)

bela:
Okay.
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:22:03 am)

Chewing Wax:
Sping obviously read it. I'd heard of it, now that I think of it.
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:23:53 am)

Heruka:
No you haven't. Stop lying. I read the Mad magazine books when I was a kid. Does those count? I'll begin reading this week:

(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:27:20 am)

Chewing Wax:
I heard of it. I just didn't have a clue what it was about. I'm reading The Earth Sea sequence by Ursula K. Le Guin.
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:33:11 am)

Chewing Wax:
Great. I looked up Confederacy of Dunces on Amazon and now it's recommending David Sedaris books. Now I'm on the fag list.
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:35:29 am)

bela:
David Sedaris is gay but the Confederacy has nothing to do with gay. David sedaris gay or not is fucking hilarious. Hes not a blah blah my rights kind of gay at all.
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:40:13 am)

Heruka:
heh. now you have an excuse anyway.
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:41:13 am)

bela:
His short stories aren't about being gay at all. A lot of it is about his family, growing up in the south, just everyday stuff but I think hes one of the funniest writers of our time. REally really good writer. Me Talk Pretty ONe Day isn't as good as Naked but its still funny. He did a reading at Carnegie Hall recently and my friend went - he has some new novel coming out and he said it was really good.
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:42:02 am)

Heruka:
a femminism message masquarading as sci-fi?
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:43:36 am)

Chewing Wax:
Femminism? Not really.
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:44:08 am)

Chewing Wax:
And it's not sci-fi.
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:44:16 am)

Heruka:
so the reviews are wrong?
"yes, it is a women book - but a women book for men to read."
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:46:08 am)

Heruka:
no wonder you're a wuss reading stff like that. you can hand in your genitals now.
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:48:27 am)

Chewing Wax:
I would say that I disagree with that interpretation of the books. Le Guin has that reputation of exploring social and sexual concepts by creating societies that don't follow the same biological rules. But then again, so did Heinlein.
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:51:03 am)

Heruka:
this will be the second book on Cook I;ve read. I read one years ago that was very dry. with facts and stuff. Not that I dislike dry boks. I like them a lot. But Cooks adventured need to be told in a more interesting way. knowing that he ran out of breadfruit on Aug. 15th doesn't do anythiong for the imagination.
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:52:10 am)

Heruka:
blarb.
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:53:50 am)

Chewing Wax:
You're an idiot
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:53:59 am)

Heruka:
I love Hemingway. He was kind of dry.
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:54:20 am)

Heruka:
that's funny.
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:54:56 am)

bela:
I read whatever I pickup around here. I don't usually read at home, only on the subway so I have a subscription to NY Magazine so I read that. When I'm at home I play tuba or zone out.
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:56:14 am)

Femminism?:
Often compared to Tolkien's Middle-earth or Lewis's Narnia, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea is a stunning fantasy world that grabs quickly at our hearts, pulling us deeply into its imaginary realms. Four books (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, and Tehanu) tell the whole Earthsea cycle--a tale about a reckless, awkward boy named Sparrowhawk who becomes a wizard's apprentice after the wizard reveals Sparrowhawk's true name. The boy comes to realize that his fate may be far more important than he ever dreamed possible. Le Guin challenges her readers to think about the power of language, how in the act of naming the world around us we actually create that world.
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:57:24 am)

Heruka:
I'm in a reading phase right now. I've read about a half dozen books in the last month or so. I'm reading one now off the internet.
(Wed Nov 6, 2002 - 10:58:03 am)