bravedave
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Just read a handful of Amazon reviews. Lot of haters of it too. Interesting too how it came to be published. Adding to list. Thx.
Books... What are you reading? And what do you recommend?
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Unclebaldrick
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Tragic story. But it's been said that it is better to burn out than to fade away. The guy was young when he wrote it. Where do you go from there?
Singlemalt
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Odd that a movie was made of Neon Bible, his 1st written when he was 16; rather than Confederacy. He attracted no notice until he died and Confederacy was published posthumously.
ticklykayak
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I have not read any book recently but I'm done with some of Mitch Albom collections. These are: Tuesdays with Morrie, The Five People You Meet in Heaven , For One More Day, Have a Little Faith and I would like to start on The Time Keeper when I'm not so busy anymore. You should check on those. I swear, you will love his stories.
Unclebaldrick
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Not odd. Greed. After his suicide the books both became owned by his mother and several relatives due to the Napoleonic Code. His mother convinced the relatives to give up their rights to COD as it was "worthless". Then it won the Pulitzer Prize. His mother refused to sell the Neon Bible because it sucked, but then she died leaving this decision to the distant relatives who sensed a big payday.
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abe supercro
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Who owns the COD piece now ?
Unclebaldrick
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I think LSU might, or maybe Tulane.
I just read up on the Wiki about the various aborted attempts to film this. Apparently, Soderberg has a project in the works for the last ten years that would effectively kill the character by casting him as Will Ferrel. Holy crap, that would suck soooooooo hard. However, Zack Galifinakis is also discussed as Ignatious. That might be pretty good IMO.
I guess Harold Ramis was doing the screenplay for Belushi. A shame we will never get to see what that would have been like. I am glad that John Candy or the enormously over-rated Chris Farley never got their hands on him and hope Will Ferrel sticks to shitty scripts as usual.
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Unclebaldrick
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I hear that some people like them(Nickelback syndrome). To each their own. But keep them away from Confederacy, please.
Unclebaldrick
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People who died in consideration for the role of Ignatius:
John Belushi
John Candy
Chris Farley
Phillip Seymour Hoffman (holy shit, never thought of that. sad now)
https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-PEsP55nALiLlkH28/a-confederacy-of-dunces-john-kennedy-toole1_djvu.txt
John Belushi
John Candy
Chris Farley
Phillip Seymour Hoffman (holy shit, never thought of that. sad now)
https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-PEsP55nALiLlkH28/a-confederacy-of-dunces-john-kennedy-toole1_djvu.txt
Unclebaldrick
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Just an excerpt from the first page or so.
In the center of the crowd that had formed before the department store the hunting cap, the
green radius of the circle of people, was bobbing about violently.
"I shall contact the mayor," Ignatius was shouting.
"Let the boy alone," a voice said from the crowd.
"Go get the strippers on Bourbon Street," an old man added. "He's a good boy. He's waiting for
his momma."
"Thank you," Ignatius said haughtily. "I hope that all of you will bear witness to this outrage."
"You come with me," the policeman said to Ignatius with waning self-confidence. The crowd
was turning into something of a mob, and there was no traffic patrolman in sight. "We're going
to the precinct."
"A good boy can't even wait for his momma by D. H. Holmes." It was the old man again. "I'm
telling you, the city was never like this. It's the communiss."
"Are you calling me a communiss?" the policeman asked the old man while he tried to avoid
the lashing of the lute string. "I'll take you in, too. You better watch out who you calling a
communiss."
"You can't arress me," the old man cried. "I'm a member of the Golden Age Club sponsored by
the New Orleans Recreation Department."
"Let that old man alone, you dirty cop," a woman screamed. "He's prolly somebody's
grampaw."
"I am," the old man said. "I got six granchirren all studying with the sisters. Smart, too."
Over the heads of the people Ignatius saw his mother walking slowly out of the lobby of the
department store carrying the bakery products as if they were boxes of cement.
"Mother!" he called. "Not a moment too soon. I've been seized."
In the center of the crowd that had formed before the department store the hunting cap, the
green radius of the circle of people, was bobbing about violently.
"I shall contact the mayor," Ignatius was shouting.
"Let the boy alone," a voice said from the crowd.
"Go get the strippers on Bourbon Street," an old man added. "He's a good boy. He's waiting for
his momma."
"Thank you," Ignatius said haughtily. "I hope that all of you will bear witness to this outrage."
"You come with me," the policeman said to Ignatius with waning self-confidence. The crowd
was turning into something of a mob, and there was no traffic patrolman in sight. "We're going
to the precinct."
"A good boy can't even wait for his momma by D. H. Holmes." It was the old man again. "I'm
telling you, the city was never like this. It's the communiss."
"Are you calling me a communiss?" the policeman asked the old man while he tried to avoid
the lashing of the lute string. "I'll take you in, too. You better watch out who you calling a
communiss."
"You can't arress me," the old man cried. "I'm a member of the Golden Age Club sponsored by
the New Orleans Recreation Department."
"Let that old man alone, you dirty cop," a woman screamed. "He's prolly somebody's
grampaw."
"I am," the old man said. "I got six granchirren all studying with the sisters. Smart, too."
Over the heads of the people Ignatius saw his mother walking slowly out of the lobby of the
department store carrying the bakery products as if they were boxes of cement.
"Mother!" he called. "Not a moment too soon. I've been seized."
Unclebaldrick
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And now, Rob Ford
greasemonkeymann
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[QUOTE="Unclebaldrick, post: 12438659, member: 769222 or the enormously over-rated Chris Farley [/QUOTE]
Man... I thought we were friends..
I will no longer tickle your balls with my moustache.
Very upset here...
Man... I thought we were friends..
I will no longer tickle your balls with my moustache.
Very upset here...
Unclebaldrick
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I will no longer tickle your balls with my moustache.
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I was a little nicer to him later. Farley had a lot of talent in physical comedy but in my opinion would have been way over his head in this role.
He was funny, he made me laugh.This was probably him at his best.
greasemonkeymann
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yea... he was pretty great..
even the behind the scenes stories had him making everyone laugh at SNL, and that one with Swayze was priceless..
sniff, sniff... aww man...both those guys are gone... two of my favorite actors ever..
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Singlemalt
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Belushi, Candy and Hoffman could've pulled it off. Farley was too much the physical no cerebral. Ignatius is a big, loutish slow moving fellow; extremely cerebral while imposing. He wears his heavy jacket, boots and lumberjack hat year round even in the sweltering humid New Orleans summer because he is a raving hypochondriac. He has a college education in the classic liberal sense and considers himself intellectually superior to most everyone else; he decries the masses and their bourgeois attitudes. He is rigid, judgemental, haughty and unemployed. And most importantly, he is frustrated from sexually, to his friends and family to his lot in life. All of this comes into play during his adventures, hence Farley couldn't do it
Gregor Eisenhorn
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Horus Heresy series for those that want to read amazing sci fi with lots of philosophy and grim war.