Raol Duke,
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

(worrying that a hitch hiker they picked up will realize that they are high.)

"This same lonely desert was the last known home of the manson family. Would he make that grim connection when my attorney starts raving about bats and huge manta-rays swooping out of the sky?

"Well, if so, we'll just have to cut his head off and bury him in the desert somewhere. Because it goes without saying that we can't let him loose. He would report us at once to some outback nazi law enforcement agency and they'd run us down like dogs...

JESUS! Did i say that, or just think it?... can they hear me?"

geo wrote:

reader2121 wrote:

geo wrote:Ignatius J. Reilly from A Confederacy of Dunces

Ohhhhh yeah. I forgot about Ignatius. That was a funny book.

I will never forget his classic line which I use myself all the time.

"My excellence confused them."

I really let out a laugh when I read that. I recall being in New Hampshire and my buddy recommened that book. I read the first page and was sold.

Tell me, wasn't there a part in the novel where his new boss remarks how all of the paperwork seems to have "vanished," unknowing that Ignatius threw it all away? That part cracked me up. I love the hot dog obsession.

Scarlet O'Hara

reader2121 wrote: I really let out a laugh when I read that. I recall being in New Hampshire and my buddy recommened that book. I read the first page and was sold.

Tell me, wasn't there a part in the novel where his new boss remarks how all of the paperwork seems to have "vanished," unknowing that Ignatius threw it all away? That part cracked me up. I love the hot dog obsession.

I barely remember the book. I need to read it again.

Dolores Price from, She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb. I tried so hard to identify with this character. I ended up yelling, "What the heck are you doing", and, "no, no, don't do that". Seriously, I yelled at the book.

Jubal Harshaw, "Stranger from a Strange Land", written in the 60's by Robert Heinlein. His dialogue is fast and brilliant like Stark(Robert Downey Jr.) from Ironman.

Marcus Messner, "Indignation" by Philip Roth. Very easy to empathize with, and a good(bad) ending.

Suzanne wrote:

I ended up yelling, "What the heck are you doing", and, "no, no, don't do that". Seriously, I yelled at the book.

Suzanne!!! Honest!! What are you like?

I throw things at the TV, but I don't shout at books!!

No, really though, I think that's why I like Catherine Cookson's characters, because I can understand why they do what they do. Some modern novels leave me thoroughly non-plussed because young people now seem to have such a strange way of enjoying themselves.

I agree with Geo - Ignatius J. Reilly. I also loved the old lady at the factory who called him a girl's name and wanted a ham or was it a turkey?

Penelope wrote:Suzanne!!! Honest!! What are you like?

I throw things at the TV, but I don't shout at books!!

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Well, I was yelling at the character. You will be happy to know that I do not yell at characters on TV or in movies. Because they can't hear me.

From back when I was into reading fantasy books.

Elric of Melniboné