Rather a light read, and oddly enough, to get a clue as to what the book is about, one should pay attention rather to the books mentioned in the novel, than the movies.

I bought this book a few years ago, because nothing else was available. I was not sure whether I would like it, and over the years, between buying and reading it, a feeling had grown on me that I might not like it.

However, having read the book now, I feel, though not exalted, it is a somewhat interesting book, for the time it was written. ( )

I have heard great things about Walker Percy and collected several of his books for reading. I started with this one and as it established Percy in as a Southern author to read. I had trouble getting into the book and didn't always follow the story line. The main character does have some good insights at times but I came away disappointed. ( )

Is Bix in a box or out of the box at the end? Either or both.

I'm one of the peole, along with the rest of my small book club, who just doesn't get this book. I am unable to connect at any level with the main characters. The plot, while it does proceed chronologically, bounces around between maudlin soliloquies, scene shifts, and disjointed conversations. ( )

The novel is a winner of the National Book Award relating the story of Binx Bolling who is the moviegoer--a New Orleans young man who lives for the celluloid fantasy of the screen. He finds himself involved though with a beauty who pulls him towards disaster during Mardi Gras week that will change both of their lives.