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Summary: excellent book
Review: Walker Percy is probably the best twentieth centruy writer I know. He really makes me think and Laugh at the same time. A very intelleigent look at human behavior. If it has been written 20 years later i'd probably would have talked about our current(mine as well) obsession with the internet.
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Summary: Percy asks the best questions!
Review: Walker Percy unleashes a breathtakingly challenging set of questions upon the reader. He wonders why we can feel terrible and abstracted one moment, but wonderful and alive after surviving a bullet wound. He asks whether we actually feel happy to hear that our next door neighbor has had a great good fortune or whether we merely feign happiness. Why wouldn't we be genuinely happy for our neighbor? Is it possible something might be wrong with us?After proving a variety of points through asking his difficult questions, Percy goes on make a serious attempt to remedy the fact that we know far more about the orbit of the planets than we do about ourselves. Some of the concepts he originates in "Lost in the Cosmos" should be studied by mental health professionals everywhere. What he is attempting in this book is nothing less than to uncover the mystery of ourselves and why it can be so hard to get through an ordinary Wednesday afternoon.
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Summary: Percy asks the best questions!
Review: Walker Percy unleashes a breathtakingly challenging set of questions upon the reader. He wonders why we can feel terrible and abstracted one moment, but wonderful and alive after surviving a bullet wound. He asks whether we actually feel happy to hear that our next door neighbor has had a great good fortune or whether we merely feign happiness. Why wouldn't we be genuinely happy for our neighbor? Is it possible something might be wrong with us? After proving a variety of points through asking his difficult questions, Percy goes on make a serious attempt to remedy the fact that we know far more about the orbit of the planets than we do about ourselves. Some of the concepts he originates in "Lost in the Cosmos" should be studied by mental health professionals everywhere. What he is attempting in this book is nothing less than to uncover the mystery of ourselves and why it can be so hard to get through an ordinary Wednesday afternoon.
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Summary: Tells/asks it like it is . . .
Review: What a fantastic book this is! Having initially read "The Moviegoer" I wasn't prepared for this one, for what Walker does in this book just blew me away! Of all his works, this one is the best. Not to be missed, pick this up and enjoy! Would also recommend another great Amazon pick which I ran across recently: BARK OF THE DOGWOOD by Jackson McCrae.
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Summary: Tells/asks it like it is . . .
Review: What a fantastic book this is! Having initially read "The Moviegoer" I wasn't prepared for this one, for what Walker does in this book just blew me away! Of all his works, this one is the best. Not to be missed, pick this up and enjoy! Would also recommend another great Amazon pick which I ran across recently: BARK OF THE DOGWOOD by Jackson McCrae.
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Summary: Hilarious, infuriating, appalling, and thought-provoking
Review: What more do you want? This enragingly funny book, even after more than 15 years, still bites deep and hard. It's not a full-on attack of the hypocrisy and silliness of psychological fads, but is instead a sideways insinuation -- sort of like pointing a finger rather than clobbering over the head with a baseball bat. And it has the nerve to ask a question that no one, absolutely no one else right now is asking: If we live in the most eroticized civilization in history, why do we also live in the most violent civilization in history? Is it possible the two are related far more intimately than we dare believe? This book doesn't have an Answer, but has a ton of questions -- which, for me, makes it all the more valuable.
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