Helpful Score: 2
"I suspect that I am the result of a particularity weak conception on the part of my farther" muses Ignatius J. Rielly, the hero of this tale. He is pompous, self absorbed, sexually repressed, obese and worst of all a Medievalist. A modern, if somewhat twisted, Don Quixote who goes forth to right all manner of social wrong. He battles racial discrimination in the workplace. He fights for gay rights. He attempts to rescue a women from a life of sin. All done for completely wrong reasons, but with disastrously humorous results. Like Don Quixote he dose it all in the name of a women. Unlike Don Quixote it isn't done in the spirit of chivalry, but rather to one up 'that Minkoff minx' and take revenge on the only person in that world who can actually stand him.
Somehow you cannot help but come to root for Ignatius over the course of the book, and despite all of his blundering everything works out in the end and everybody gets what they want. The book was the funniest thing I've read in a long time and as cynical as I usually am the happy ending left me feeling good.
Somehow you cannot help but come to root for Ignatius over the course of the book, and despite all of his blundering everything works out in the end and everybody gets what they want. The book was the funniest thing I've read in a long time and as cynical as I usually am the happy ending left me feeling good.
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