The first time I saw this book was in 2013 or 14 at Barnes and Noble in Chicago. What attracted me to it was its cover page. I found it very artistic and thought this gotta be a comic book. But somehow I moved on and didn't get to this book, albeit audio version from a local library until now. Set in New Orleans this fictional work by John Toole is a perfect work that won Pulitzer price and rightly so. The protagonist Ignatius J. Reilly a strange character with a very narrow and well-defined but grandly flawed world view struggles to make sense of this world and its workings by pure analysis and writing and often imposing his will on the people he meets all while deftly justifying his doings. In short, he is a lazy bum who just doesn't want to work and lives in his fantasy world. Amazing book that won his author a posthumously Pulitzer prize.
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