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Posted on 4/16/20 at 11:14 pm to Tigertown in ATL
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CoD is as overrated as Catcher in the Rye.
Thank you. I'd forgotten how much I disliked Catcher. CoD is tolerable precisely, and for me, only, because it's set in New Orleans and gives some props to Lucky Dogs.
I suspect Toole's mom wore out Percy and the Pulitzer judges. She reminded me of an older female Chuck Barris.
Posted on 4/16/20 at 11:28 pm to boxcarbarney
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boxcarbarney
Don’t let him fool you. While he probably is a sincere Christian, the rest of TulaneLSU’s Tigerdroppings schtick is based on the main character from Confederacy of Dunces.
Posted on 4/16/20 at 11:34 pm to Mr. Misanthrope
Friend,
Here's an old interview of her: Thelma O'Toole and Longer interview. She seems insufferable without much self awareness. Bayoubengals88, I model my life on Christ alone. And Tom Fitzmorris.
Yours,
TulaneLSU
Here's an old interview of her: Thelma O'Toole and Longer interview. She seems insufferable without much self awareness. Bayoubengals88, I model my life on Christ alone. And Tom Fitzmorris.
Yours,
TulaneLSU
This post was edited on 4/16/20 at 11:36 pm
Posted on 4/17/20 at 12:04 am to TulaneLSU
Always masterful and always underappreciated here 
Posted on 4/17/20 at 8:39 pm to TulaneLSU
Just bought 14 Complete Works of George Washington Cable from Amazon. For Kindle.
It includes the 3 you list.
Total cost 2.99
It includes the 3 you list.
Total cost 2.99
Posted on 4/19/20 at 6:00 pm to TulaneLSU
Excellent list with one glaring omission. A Confederacy of Dunces belongs at the top.
Posted on 4/19/20 at 8:11 pm to geauxpurple
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Excellent list with one glaring omission. A Confederacy of Dunces belongs at the top.
Did you read his entire idiotic OP?
That novel was left off the list because that pretentious douche doesn’t consider it “literature”.
Even though the first 2 books on the list of best New Orleans novels aren’t even novels.
Posted on 4/19/20 at 8:45 pm to memphis tiger
Walker Percy considered it literature and so did the Pulitzer committee.
Posted on 4/20/20 at 12:44 am to geauxpurple
Friend,
Walker Percy liked eating at Waffle House...
Which, of course, invalidated any literary ideas he had, you see.
Walker Percy liked eating at Waffle House...
Which, of course, invalidated any literary ideas he had, you see. This post was edited on 4/20/20 at 8:25 pm
Posted on 4/21/20 at 8:10 am to TulaneLSU
I can understand not like Dunces but no one has New Orleans better than in lines like this
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Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.
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The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive
This post was edited on 4/21/20 at 8:12 am
Posted on 4/21/20 at 9:27 pm to Dire Wolf
So Toole posts on the OT Lounge huh?
Posted on 4/22/20 at 7:55 am to memphis tiger
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My list does. Confederacy only holds up to the standard of greatness in a world of hedonistic nihilism.
You are not as smart as you think you are, but damn are you pretentious
Associates of Tulane University, in particular their publishing office, are very sensitive to the mention of 'A Confederacy of Dunces' and have been known to spitefully misspell the author's name... They turned it down for publishing numerous times. Then the author's mother tried LSU's publishing office. The rest is history.
Posted on 4/22/20 at 7:30 pm to Boo Krewe
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No true crime novels ?
You DO know that novels are, by their very definition, fiction, right?
Posted on 4/25/20 at 10:05 am to TulaneLSU
Friend,
Thank you for this list. I just ordered The Moviegoer on Amazon Prime. It should arrive by next weekend.
Yours,
NIH
Thank you for this list. I just ordered The Moviegoer on Amazon Prime. It should arrive by next weekend.
Yours,
NIH
Posted on 4/25/20 at 5:15 pm to NIH
I’ve read it 3 times. I love Dunces but Moviegoer is my favorite novel of all time. The fact that there is controversy regarding its award galls me. Catch 22 with its clever wordplay and alliteration is fun; but the Moviegoer stands alone.
This post was edited on 4/25/20 at 5:20 pm
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