content: I've heard so much about this book and was able to pick up a copy for 50 cents at a used book sale. I'm glad that's all I spent; nothing about it engaged me. Ignatius spends so much time playing the victim, he reminds me of people I know in real life and can't stand. His mother's no better, clucking and fussing over him when she should be kicking him out of the house. I stopped about a third of the way through chapter 2, they irritated me so much.