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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Confederacy of Dunces. There was a reason this wasn’t published when the author was alive. It’s probably worst book I ever read. I have to finish every book I start, and I thought this would be the one to break me. It was a Herculean effort to finish it but I was motivated to so I could definitively talk about how bad it is. [/quote]

+1[/quote]

Can I come sit by you? Not interested the musings of a proto-incel. [/quote]

That's why it's so good though, because of how ridiculous Ignatius is.  Do you only read books with pure/noble/exemplary main characters?  At that point you might as well limit yourself to Little House on the Prairie.  [/quote]

NP. I love these people who think they're so enlightened because they "get" the point of books with terrible characters. Guess what? There are loads of well-done books with complex, flawed, even unlikeable characters that aren't completely obnoxious to read. Not all thoughts and ideas deserve equal attention. And for what it's worth, I don't read little house because the books glamorize the dehumanization American Indians. Sure I could read it and analyze it like many great academics do, but I'm not an academic and I'd rather read a book written by an American Indian. [/quote]
I’ve got your back!

https://www.amazon.com/Birchbark-House-Louise-Erdrich/dp/0786814543

(FTR I read the LHOTP books to my eldest just because I was interested in re-reading what was still the dominant narrative about Native Americans in children’s literature when I was a child and it was both better and worse than I remembered. Interesting insight into a disappeared America, certainly, especially the passage about the now-extinct wolf that she and Carrie see in By the Shores of Silver Lake).[/quote]

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