Confederacy of Dunces...

AI'm Done! It's taken me almost three months (I only read right before bed, so I only have about a 20 minute window before I fall asleep), but I have finally finished the Confederacy of DuncesA Confederacy of Dunces. COD is considered one of the best portrayals of New Orleans in Fiction, examining the city's culture, its people, politics and corruption. I was very excited to start reading the book, but I have to say, it wasn't as great as I had hoped it would be.

Ignatius Reilly, the main character, is a lazy slob of an "intellectual" forced to pause his musings to enter into the job market, first in a clerical position at "Levy Pants" and then as a Lucky Dog vendor in the French Quarter.  While you do get an interesting perspective about "Quarter Dwellers" Ignatius far from wins over your heart.  I was completely unsympathetic towards him, and honestly a little repulsed - which I do realize is where the comedy derives.  I thought the book started VERY slow (I even contemplated abandoning it about 100 pages in) but did end on hilarious high point that was almost enough to redeem the book in my eyes, but not quite. Onto more New Orleans Fiction I go!