A Confederacy of Redheads

I finally finished A Confederacy of Dunces and I have to say I think it is one of the best books I have read in a long time if not ever.

This is what Wikipedia have to say about it:

A Confederacy of Dunces is a novel written by John Kennedy Toole, published about eleven years after his suicide. (Toole took his own life in 1969—perhaps partially as a result of his professional failure as a novelist. Simon & Schuster rejected a finished draft of "Dunces" in 1964.) Through the efforts of the writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a revealing Foreword) and Toole's mother, the book was published in 1980; it quickly became a cult classic and won a Pulitzer Prize a year later. It is an important part of the 'modern canon' of Southern literature.

The title derives from the book's epigraph by Jonathan Swift: "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." (Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting)

The story is set in the U.S. city of New Orleans, Louisiana, at the start of the 1960s. The central character is Ignatius J. Reilly, an intelligent but slothful man still living with his mother in Uptown New Orleans, who, because of family circumstances, must set out to get a job for the first time in his life at age thirty. In his quest for employment he has various adventures with colorful French Quarter characters.

I would highly recommend this if you want something different and/or you have a weird fascination with eccentric characters. I'm going to start The Art Of Happiness next!