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Book Review of A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces
reviewed Remarkable and delicious on + 14 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2


A remarkable book all 'round, different, new and fresh, though imitated since its recognition. Turn off your miserable cell phone and plan to laugh and sink back into another world. Sadly, part of the enchantment is the setting in a New Orleans destroyed by "developers" tourists, corrupt politians (genus Washingtonia and Louisianaense) and natural elements. This book is as delicious and peculiar as Baked Alaska with mango ice cream. Savor it.