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Title: Terrible, terrible
Review: While I suppose this book is realistic, it is completely unreadable due to its main character, Ignatius Reilly. Most of the reviews I've read call him a hero and a misfit at odds with the modern world. That isn't true. He's a jerk. The character is a horrible person who I could hardly stand reading about. I have no idea what the author was thinking when he created him. In the story, things always go right for Ignatius even though the reader desperately wants him to suffer. Why would anyone want to read about such a loathsome character? Ignatius is treated as the hero because he's the main character, but he is no hero, to be sure.Why did this win a Pulitzer? I think it was mainly due hype over the complex story of the book's publication. The author killed himself ten years after writing the book and his mother spent the next few years after that trying to get it published. If only she hadn't tried so hard.
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