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Just finished the unabridged audiobook of A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. What a fantastically funny book! Ignatius J. Reilly is certainly one of the most outrageous comedic characters ever devised. It's really a shame that it wasn't published until over a decade after Toole committed suicide. Had he received the recognition he deserved during his lifetime, who knows how this may have affected that outcome. Certainly, had he written more (his only other novel was written when he was 16), our lives would no doubt have been the richer for it.
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