This is an amazingly funny book! THE BEST in comedy! It'll keep you rolling and laughing hours AFTER you put it down! I bought it 12 years ago for a quarter and after reading it, went back to the bookstore and bought the last 2 they had! It is a book you MUST pass around to anyone and EVERYONE you know! It is THAT funny! I do believe that this novel would make a #1 movie!
PLease read it!

I read Cesar J. Rotondi's "Grand Obese" over ten years ago, and like Toole's "Confederacy of Dunces," Fante's "The Road to Los Angeles," Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye," and various Thomas Berger novels, I cannot shake the book from my head. It had deep impact in my conciousness. It is highly reccomended.

Cesar Rotondi has written the best book ever about compulsive eating. All of the excuses people give for eating "just one more" are included, as Sylvie and her enormous children expand beyond the confines of their Chicago townhouse. The ending is macabre, but entirely consistent with the rest of the story. Buy this book and pass it around. It should never have been allowed to go out of print.