Confederacy of Dunces

[Mark Kohut]

Does Conferacy of Dunces rise above the jokes on the page?
Does it generalize?

Will it last? Should it?


--- On Wed, 11/19/08, Brock Vond <wilsonistrey at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Brock Vond <wilsonistrey at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Confederacy of Dunces
> To: "Lawrence Bryan" <lebryan at speakeasy.net>
> Cc: "Pynchon Liste" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 7:48 PM
> interesting sub-sub-thread of the doorstopper discussion...
> 
> Which books have we re-read... only to question our first
> readings?
> 
> Thx for the thoughts tho.
> 
> 
> On Nov 19, 2008, at 7:30 PM, Lawrence Bryan wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I read this shortly after it was published on an
> extended trip around the Pacific. Don't know if it was
> the circumstances of our Pacific circumnavigation, but I
> rather enjoyed it as did my eleven year old son and
> (somewhat older) wife. Some years later a copy found its way
> to the top of a stack of books to eject from my library and
> remembering how I had enjoyed it I decided to reread it.
> What a difference in time and circumstance. I couldn't
> finish a reread, kept wondering what I had enjoyed the first
> time through. Anyone else find the second go somewhat of a
> bummer?
> > 
> > Lawrence
> > 
> > On Nov 19, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Brock Vond wrote:
> > 
> >> Hey All -
> >> 
> >> I've noticed a few people on this list note
> this book as one they've revisited... I'm a HUGE
> Howard Stern fan and his "side-kick" for lack of a
> more fitting term, Artie (not a well-read individual at all)
> constantly refers to this book as being really really great.
> >> 
> >> I know the sad story behind the publication of the
> book and was wondering what a few of the P Listers
> (obviously well-read individuals) think of this book.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Thoughts would be appreciated before i go and buy
> this and spend months getting to it...
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >