The Neon Bible -- John Kennedy Toole

from grheault

Its young,simple, honest, and it was finished at sixteen. That's a big kudos to John Kennedy Toole. I wish he were still around to hear people acknowledge his work. He'd have produced many more Sou...

from Sean191

I read Confederacy of Dunces four or five years ago - it's one of my wife's favorite books. I wasn't really into it. But since The Neon Bible promised to be a quick read, I gave Toole another go. J...

from dreamingtereza

The Neon Bible is a marvelously well structured, sensitive, and knowing account of growing up in rural Mississippi in the 1940's and 1950's. I was admittedly a little apprehensive about reading it ...

from teewillis1981

I cannot believe that John Kennedy Toole wrote this when he was 16 years old!! He had such incredible access to human emotions at such an early age. This book is a simple, yet complex telling of a ...

from BooksForDinner

It's hard to fairly judge this short novel--there are too many caveats. He was 16 when he wrote it for a contest, so it is genius for someone of that age. However, the only other piece of work to c...