>>25206762
The ending was really great. This is one of my favorite books

>>25206762
His mom became an awful person. Glad he escaped her

>>25206762
It's been a long time but I thought the ending was supposed to not be happy because it shows he's being enabled to keep acting like a retard and will never change
>>25206959
Same

>>25206982
I don't think he can help himself. At least he didn't get institutionalized.

Wish he didn't kill himself and made a sequel about his shenanigans in NY with the minka minx

>>25206762
easily one of the best books of all time. but because its not sad depressing and brooding nobody cares about it.

>>25207006
I think its pretty sad

>>25206762
It's strange. Ignatius is obviously stupid, narcissistic, and disgusting. And yet, I can't help but root for him as he escapes the mental hospital. By the end of the book, I have to admit that there's something heroic in a personality so utterly uncompromising, in such an absolute refusal to be a product of your time, even if by every reasonable standard you're acting like a complete retard.

WOAH!
>>25207036
it helps that a lot of the supporting characters are also idiots.

>>25207049
A confederacy of dunces against him

>>25206762
I wonder, is Ignatius for New Orleans what Leopold Bloom is for Dublin? Culturally that is.

>>25206762
I went to New orleans to see the Ignatius statue but it was like a fucking zoo over there. Couldn't even look at the statue because I had to worry about people jumping in front of my car. I gave up and just left

>>25207208
I guess that answers >>25207205

>>25207215
Kek yea I guess. Sorry if I ruined it. I was actually pretty sad when I left I think I even had the book with me

>>25206762
Why would it not be at least slightly upbeat? The whole novel is comedic in nature.

>>25207232
Not at all. Perhaps you should visit another time yourself if it isn’t too long a journey, just pick a better time for it lel.

honestly, honestly FUCK that motherfuckin santa battaglia

>>25207208
So you're saying you stopped and/or parked your car on Canal St. and tried to rubberneck to see the Ignatius statue, which last I saw was tucked behind construction and scaffolding and shit, in order to look at the Ignatius statue, and you're wondering why people were aping the fuck out? Get a hotel, pay for parking, don't drive your car around New Orleans for like 10 reasons just off the top of my head. Take the street car down to Casamento's and have some oysters.

>>25207336
Shut up mr “I know New Orleans like the back of my hand”

File: 3pepesfactsign.jpg (60.6 KB)

60.6 KB JPG

>>25206762
the joke is she's a stereotypical jewess libtard and she was involved in nigger worship activism in nyc and the niggers used her for sex then dumped her and she came running back home and was what ignatious needed to finally leave the nest

>>25207325
What was her problem?

Lana got raped right?

a rule of thumb is if it seems like a character got raped they probably did

Was she the night club owner? I don't remember what happened to her at the end

>>25209560
She got caught soliciting Mancuso for sex not knowing he was an undercover cop. She's thrown in jail and supposedly raped by the 3 lesbians in there with her.[/spoilers]

>>25209878
Oh yea. The cop wearing disguises was kino

>>25209878
I would have to reread that part but I remmber her complaining about dykes on bourbon st earlier in the book so it would be a fitting end for her

>>25207376
It's 2026, you should know New Orleans like the palm of your hand.

...because you hold your smartphone in the palm of your hand. Cradled by the fingers. And your smartphone has maps and GPS. Next time you're in a crowded city, park your car and walk around.

>>25210725
Ive heard NO smells like piss and your blacks roam unimpeded by the laws of gods or men. Would be neat to see the ignatius statue tho

>>25207036

He's intelligent,you completly missed the character. He's the only one intelligent surrounded by average or straight mediocre people.

>>25206982
>he's being enabled to keep acting like a retard and will never change
So a happy ending then

>>25206762
I recently read The Neon Bible and if he could do that at sixteen I'm sure he would have been one of the greats.

>>25210730
Well I played Red Dead some years ago and there’s a city in that which is probably meant to be a fictional version of New Orleans and if I recall correctly it was full of non whites and frogs… yuck, fortunately it’s like gta in the sense that you can just shoot them in the head if you feel like it.

>>25210986
His adventures with the blacks and gays are completely retarded though. Also, if you pay close attention you'll notice that he never actually read Boethius. He's "intelligent" in the sense that he's better educated than the literal slum dwellers surrounding him, but he's not intelligent enough to avoid making a complete ass of himself everywhere he goes.

>>25211187
He has no social intelligence obviously

>>25206762
His screeds about feudalism are among the funniest things I've read in a book.

>>25212465
Agreed