A Confederacy of Dunces is an absurd romp through the lives of a handful of ridiculous characters, that made me laugh out loud at times, although I found it dragged in the middle.
Dunces initially revolves around the story of Ignatius Reilly, an obese resident of 1960s-era New Orleans who writes an elegantly worded masters degree thesis in red crayon. Soon, however, the story expands to a true confederacy, jumping between a dozen different, equally absurd protagonists all with interconnected stories.
This book is a slow burn, that, while often very funny, struggles with the amount of characters to track. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a humorous and different read, who does not mind a longer book.
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