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Title: Insipid
Review: Years ago, I listened to a group of people at a local bookstore talk about Confederacy of Dunces in glowing terms. I later picked up a copy at the library expecting much hilarity. It was horrible. I couldn't bring myself to finish it.Roll forward a few years. I thought that maybe my tastes had changed and the book deserved a second chance. No joy. I found nothing funny about the book. It is just one inane situation after another, no ups or downs, just an anemic "plot" that droned on and on.Is the fondness for this book an elaborate and widespread joke? Maybe it is a story that people pretend to like because others do, sort of an "Emperor's New Cloths" thing. I don't know but I found NOTHING to like in this book.
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