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My post wasn't meant to be taken as "blasting away". On my site, (which isn't related in any way to literature at all, it's a sports website) I have a board that is for the sole purpose of letting me know of any bugs or errors. How you folks took that as a personal insult is beyond me, I...

I was just trying to point it out to the webmaster, as I own a website and always encourage my members to point out any errors, as we are human. But if you, Jessica, want to play the holier than thou game then I suppose the typo In my Clancy post (which was just a missing letter) is far...

The forum description for the "Author Discussion" board has the word lives spelled wrong.

What is your favorite Clany book? I like Red Rabbit.

Which film version of Hamlet is your favorite?

FYI, this is the same author that wrote Band Of Brothers which was made into an HBO series. I haven't read Brothers yet but D-Day is an amazing read.

I most certainly think that Toole was painting a self portrait of sorts. Maybe purging himself of how he felt. One of the opening scenes, with Ignatius masturbating while he thinks about his childhood dog, with his mother pounding on the door asking him what's going on...just a terrible...

I'm sure the accents are real...do you agree with any of my interpretation?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671673343/qid=1036619542/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_3/103-8968354-2719063?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 I'm reading that at the moment. I've always been pretty interested in war and history.

I wonder if Ignatius wasn't a sad self image John had of himself... I agree about the accents. I think Toole uses those as even more evidence that Ignatius "doesn't belong". As he doesn't speak with one. The constant thoughts about the disastrous bus ride out of town shows me that, while...

If so I'd like to hear your thoughts on the book. I find it brilliant.

1) A Confederacy Of Dunces (Toole) 2) Jailbird (Vonnegut) 3) Suttree (McCarthy) 4) Breakfast of Champions (Vonnegut) 5) Red Rabbit (Clancy)

I have been looking for a general book discussion board for a long time. Looks like I found it.