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Summary: Mandatory reading for Confederacy of Dunces Fans
Review: If you've read Confederacy of Dunces, then this book is the logical follow-up. It delves into the real world of Lucky Dogs...the hotdog vending company in New Orleans that played such a prominent role in John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize winning "Confederacy of Dunces". Incredibly funny, and sometimes a bit disturbing, this book will leave you seeking out your closest hot dog vendor, and leave you with a completely different view of that industry.
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Summary: Mandatory reading for Confederacy of Dunces Fans
Review: If you've read Confederacy of Dunces, then this book is the logical follow-up. It delves into the real world of Lucky Dogs...the hotdog vending company in New Orleans that played such a prominent role in John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize winning "Confederacy of Dunces". Incredibly funny, and sometimes a bit disturbing, this book will leave you seeking out your closest hot dog vendor, and leave you with a completely different view of that industry.
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Summary: A Walk on the Wild Side
Review: Jerry E. Strahan has seen it all. As a long time manager of Lucky Dogs, a New Orleans institution, he has witnessed the daily (and nightly) life of New Orleans' French Quarter. Daily he manages to put together a crew from the ecletic souls that wander in and out of Lucky Dogs' warehouse. These people are the nucleus of a freewheeling account of life in the Quarter and the life of a Lucky Dog man. Told with a real affection for New Orleans and al those he has worked with, Strahan is a wonderful observer of both people and time. He manages to be straightforward, without stripping his characters of their humanity. A real treat...although I'd rather have a Lucky Dog any day.
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Summary: It's a vendors's life for me
Review: Jerry E. Strahan has seen it all. As a long time manager of Lucky Dogs, a New Orleans institution, he has witnessed the daily (and nightly) life of New Orleans' French Quarter. Daily he manages to put together a crew from the ecletic souls that wander in and out of Lucky Dogs' warehouse. These people are the nucleus of a freewheeling account of life in the Quarter and the life of a Lucky Dog man. Told with a real affection for New Orleans and al those he has worked with, Strahan is a wonderful observer of both people and time. He manages to be straightforward, without stripping his characters of their humanity. A real treat...although I'd rather have a Lucky Dog any day.
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Summary: Fun on a Bun
Review: Jerry Strahan reveals what it is like to manage the most colorful characters in the most colorful place in the country. This is a television sitcom that gives you a great feel for New Orleans. Having given up meat to start the year, this really tested me. I can not wait to get to New Orleans and try my first "8 inches of fun on a bun"
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Summary: Stellar!
Review: Several books you have to read if you're interested in "Confederacy": "The Neon Bible," "Ignatius Rising," McCrae's "Bark of the Dogwood" (if Toole were still alive he might have written this), and this book, "Managing Ignatius." You don't HAVE to have been from New Orleans to enjoy any of these books, but it helps. Long live Southern literature!!!!!
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Summary: Stellar!
Review: Several books you have to read if you're interested in "Confederacy": "The Neon Bible," "Ignatius Rising," McCrae's "Bark of the Dogwood" (if Toole were still alive he might have written this), and this book, "Managing Ignatius." You don't HAVE to have been from New Orleans to enjoy any of these books, but it helps. Long live Southern literature!!!!!
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Summary: Lovable, Wacky Hot Dog Vendors
Review: This book is part hilarious comedy, part tragedy. It is a walk on the edge that most of us will never experience. This book so accurately portrays the downtrodden and their trials and tribulations without judgement, pity or disrespect. I enjoyed every page. I hope we see more from this author, the true king and manager of the real-life confederacy of dunces.
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Summary: Lovable, Wacky Hot Dog Vendors
Review: This book is part hilarious comedy, part tragedy. It is a walk on the edge that most of us will never experience. This book so accurately portrays the downtrodden and their trials and tribulations without judgement, pity or disrespect. I enjoyed every page. I hope we see more from this author, the true king and manager of the real-life confederacy of dunces.
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Summary: Freakishly funny, proof that fact is stranger than fiction.
Review: This book was great. The real life accounts of the author as he was manager of Lucky Dogs, the hotdog vending company in New Orleans' French Quarter, is amazing. The people that he describes will blow your mind, and entrance you completely. From stories of Frenchy (a huge Canadian boxer) beating everything in sight, to transvestites and homosexuals hitting on customers. The lovers spats, roberies, and assualts are all part of the charm of Lucky Dogs and what make Managing Ignatius the entertaining book it is. Put it this way: After reading Managing Ignatius I informed my parents that as soon as I arrive in New Orleans I'm headed to the Quarter for a job.
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