2006-07-15 13:47:50 · 8 answers · asked by dr. misako 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
It is one of the best and funniest/saddest books I've ever read. I could totally get involved in the characters and they all seemed very real. I recommend it to all my friends. I gave away my only copy and am going to buy another. It will probably be the only book I will read twice. Too bad it had to be a one hit wonder. It won the Pulitzer Prize. Whether or not all the above qualifies it as a masterpiece, I don't know, but I definitely qualify it as a masterpiece.
2006-07-15 21:59:19 · answer #1 · answered by galacticsleigh 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Without a doubt a masterpiece. A comedy steeped in pathos. A book the author gave his life for.
2006-07-15 18:38:18 · answer #2 · answered by ElOsoBravo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually not EVERYONE who has lived in N'Awlins thinks it a GREAT book. I lived there and I actually couldn't finish it. I just couldn't get into it at all, and I am the type of reader that once I have committed to reading a book VERY RARELY put it away unfinished. I even finished VIOLIN, which is the ONLY book by Anne Rice that I absolutely HATED...
2006-07-15 23:00:57 · answer #3 · answered by redbearhoutx 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first book that ever made me laugh out loud.
also a pulitzer prize winner.
Great book,I recomend it to people all the time.
Yes I would say a masteriece.The characters are wonderful and of course the story about the writer is tragic, I always think that Ignatius was him.
2006-07-15 17:47:11 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought so. I made all my friends read it and they were all like, "What the hell is the matter with you?! That book is a as stupid as it was poorly written. Was this some sort of joke?"
Scores of publishers turned it down before it was published. Maybe they knew something.
2006-07-15 13:51:48 · answer #5 · answered by trixwagen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It's one of the funniest books ever written.
2006-07-16 00:18:25 · answer #6 · answered by DS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love it. Anyone who's lived in New Orleans thinks the book is fantastic. (Me and a group of my friends)
2006-07-15 13:55:10 · answer #7 · answered by Emi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe I missed something, but I didn't like it. I couldn't sympathize with any of the characters.
2006-07-16 01:18:52 · answer #8 · answered by kcchaplain 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋