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Walker Percy
Love among the Ruins by Walker Percy
... Blood
12. Postmortem
13. Lightning On The Sun
14. City of Night by John Rechy
15. Less Than Zero
16. The Moviegoer
17. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
18. The Dragon In The Sea
19. Revolutionary Road
20. Lord of the Flies
... to say for sure, but I might expect to find some cogently Christian fiction in them (the ones other than his most famous The Moviegoer , which is clearly in the secular tradition of its time. The protagonist (1st person) all but apologizes for being a Catholic, though only a nominal one.)
... to say for sure, but I might expect to find some cogently Christian fiction in them (the ones other than his most famous The Moviegoer , which is clearly in the secular tradition of its time. The protagonist (1st person) all but apologizes for being a Catholic, though only a nominal one.)
071. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene 03/04/09
072. Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightma 03/05/09
073. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy 03/05/09
074. Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman 03/06/09
075. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 03/08/09
FILM: Mouche ...
071. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene 03/04/09
072. Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightma 03/05/09
073. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy 03/05/09
074. Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman 03/06/09
075. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 03/08/09
... "Of Human Bondage" (Mar.)
5. Cormac McCarthy - "The Road" (Nov.)
6. Walker Percy - "The Moviegoer "
7. Kingsley Amis - "Lucky Jim" (Mar.)
8. Muriel Spark - "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (Sept.)
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... by Charles Webb {2/15}
4. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison {2/18}
5. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis {2/28}
6. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy {3/5}
7. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut {3/30}
8. The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington {3/31}
9. The Bell by Iris Murdo ...
... has mentioned my other favorite Catholic author (right behind Flannery): Walker Percy. You absolutely need to have The Moviegoer . I would also highly recommend The Thanatos Syndrome.
Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson is a good one. As well as anything by G.K. Chesterton ...
24. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
I had never heard of this book before I picked it up in an English-language bookshop in Austria, but I understand it is considered a classic.
I wanted to like it - Bolling seemed a likeable character and the idea of a search for authenticity ...
13. The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
Not knowing anything about this book, I went into it expecting another quaint, southern tale with old people doing old people things and young people shaking their heads in amusement then everyone eating shrimp, drinking Dixie or sipping tea on the porch while ...
... by James P. Othmer. Will follow up with The Dog of the South by Charles Portis, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, and The Moviegoer by Walker Percy. Not sure which ones are on the list. Haven't checked yet.
From The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Me, it is my fortune and misfortune to know how the spirit-presence of a strange place can enrich a man or rob a man but never leave him alone, if a man travels lightly to a hundred strange cities and cares nothing for the risk he takes, he may find himself ...
started The Moviegoer by Walker Percy this afternoon.
... mingway
3. The Good Solider by Ford Maddox Ford
4. A Certain Justice by P.D. James
5. Siddartha by Herman Hesse
6. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
7. The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
8. Shroud for a Nightingale by P.D. James
9. The Black Tower by P.D. James
10. The Emporer of ...
... at inappropriate times).
After that I'm either onto Through the Children's Gate or When Sex goes to School or The Moviegoer depending on my mood. Most likely Gopnik because I've been waiting ages for a new book by him.
... you do, but just one too many stupid oversights on Sid's part, I thought. Still, fine entertainment.
Now am well into The Moviegoer , my first Walker Percy, and it's as brilliant as I had been led to expect. I will definitely be reading more (as in ALL) of his work.
Finally, I am ...
... for the older works but would it be possible to include the earliest publication date more prominently? For example The Moviegoer (1961).
Also I'd really like to be able to sort authors' works chronologically.
Apologies if these have been addressed before (looking down the list of ...
... do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering in order that they may have existence."
I also liked the one for The Moviegoer , but hearing that it was the publisher's suggestion makes me feel like I relied to heavily upon it in my interpretaion of that book. Maybe it's not so much ...
... Wilhelm Fliess.
I’m very fond of the Kierkegaard quotation from The Sickness unto Death, in Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer :
“…the specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair.”
This wasn’t originally a part of the manuscript but Per ...
... Wilhelm Fliess.
I’m very fond of the Kierkegaard quotation from The Sickness unto Death, in Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer :
“…the specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair.”
This wasn’t originally a part of the manuscript but Per ...
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