The Books thread.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 12:03 am

So, what is the general consensus on A Confederacy of Dunces?

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 12:26 am

trivia time: this thread was started by Lol Invictus, a well-respected member of the Fallout communisty

Speed_demon · Post by **Speed_demon** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 10:10 am

Have any one of you monkeys read doomsday warrior

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 7:04 pm

Nicolai wrote:So, what is the general consensus on A Confederacy of Dunces?

Haven't read it but Neon Bible was pretty :okay:

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 7:11 pm

more trivia: thread starter has a 6.5" cock, according to his #fallout confession

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 7:16 pm

they called him soldier

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 9:43 pm

called?

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 10:34 pm

sol invictus was never a soldier

rex exitium RIP

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 3:39 pm

how did he died?

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 4:25 pm

internal bleeding due to pleasure hose insertion

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 5:39 pm

it was just too pleasurable

turns out your body can only hold so much water before it bursts

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:23 pm

borges

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:14 pm

where did my post go?

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:09 pm

it's a conspiracy

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:35 pm

reconstruction of a post lost somewhere in time: a confederacy is kinda alright

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:38 pm

on a scale from

to

how is it?

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:00 am

well, definitely somewhere in-between. some of the characters have annoying speech patterns and toole's use of dialect is a bit grating perhaps. the humor is very hit and miss, doesn't live up to the constant comparisons to catch-22. other than that, pretty

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:19 am

Speaking of Catch-22 have you read any of Heller's other works?

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:23 am

No, I've always taken him for a bit of a one-hit wonder

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:27 am

Some of his novels seem intriguing (the sequel to Catch-22 particularly) but I'm a bit wary to test the waters eh for fear of ruining his good name