content: i read a confederacy of dunces at the beach over thanksgiving detirmined to finish it over a week. i figured it had to be considering it won the pulitzer prize award for fiction and will ferrell was considering starring in the still pending and possible (i hope not) movie version. i found all 416 pages of this book to be sheer pompousness and pointless. there was little plot..if any apart from the stripper darla's struggle. it was not worth the time to read. trust me. there are plenty of other good books out there.