"since the war everything was synthetic. they said after the war we were going to have plastic houses and helicopters, but I never saw any, and I wondered if they had them in New York. that was where they had everything."

- john kennedy toole from the neon bible


NYC is great. I've been trying to read this book since winter break and have finally almost finished it. Schoolwork really takes away from my real reading that I want to do. I'm currently in the middle of three different books and have no idea how I got to this point - I need to start just finishing one and then making it to the next one.

this book isn't as great as A Confederacy of Dunces, but I'm still enjoying it (and I'm pretty biased towards Confederacy considering it is actually one of my favorite books). Neon Bible is a great description of small town, central-US life for a young teen. Toole wrote it at 16 years old and for that reason alone, its pretty impressive. I could barely write a 5 paragraph essay at 16 and he wrote a book.