Finished: A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole) Finally read this Pulitzer Prize winner that has been called "an epic comedy" and "one of the funniest books ever written", and while I did laugh out loud a few times, I was not blown away by the book....and in particular found the main character, Ignatious J. Reilly anything BUT funny. Maybe I'm just not deep enough? I don't get it! While the entire book was full of characters that could literally be called a confederacy of dunces, being set in New Orleans and being chock full of idiotic characters, I found Ignatious, the 30 year old educated, but jobless, obese, unpleasant, paranoid, argumentative man who still lived with his mother, who he continuously verbally abused, to be more on the sadly mentally ill side than the light-hearted and/or bumbling humorous side. Anyway...the writing and dialogue of the characters was nicely done. I could just hear the New Orleans, Louisiana accents in the various characters. I think my favorite character was the very abused Officer Mancuso, the policeman who was just always trying to do his job, yet always being ridiculed by his Sargent, and was constantly demoted into demeaning situations until he finally saved the day and became a hero! Anyway...glad I finally read the book, but I think I may be lacking a funny bone or something?