false 10739 18 This elegantly written account of a young man's search for signs of purpose in the universe is one of the great existential texts of the postwar era and is really funny besides. Binx Bolling, inveterate cinemaphile, contemplative rake and man of the periphery, tries hedonism and tries doing the right thing, but ultimately finds redemption (or at least the prospect of it) by taking a leap of faith and quite literally embracing what only seems irrational. 1209450 book 1960 The Moviegoer total:3071|5:876|4:1099|3:726|2:295|1:75| 3071 11619 4476 329 5 10 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Wed Jul 04 07:16:21 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 20:00:42 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 5 false true Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 25 10:59:13 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 17 13:40:25 -0700 2008
Binx Bolling marries Kate Cutrer, even though a bystander, much less the Cutrer family, would not have suspected these two were in love. The Moviegoer is the strange story of one week of Binx’s life, on the eve of his thirtieth birthday, which hap...more...]]> 3 4 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 08:17:45 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 19:40:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 5 false false Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 13:53:42 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 09:06:10 -0700 2009 The Moviegoer. It's an ambitious novel for one so slim--it skims many weighty topics, from hedonism (and his better-dressed twin, capitalism), to religion's place in America, to ...more...]]> 1 2 false false Tue Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Oct 31 06:43:15 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 12 07:36:14 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 3 false false Mon Feb 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 06:37:38 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 04 07:45:17 -0800 2008
But really, I think the same way about this as I do books like Emma-- As in, why do I care if rich idiots are sad about their affluent lifestyle that is free of any...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 20:56:27 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 20:38:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 22 23:26:11 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 01 19:08:28 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jul 02 18:30:36 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 02 19:00:24 -0700 2007 Percy...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Mar 17 06:45:11 -0700 2007 Sat Mar 17 07:34:27 -0700 2007
Walker Percy's writing is heavily influenced by modernism, Christianity, and the Sou...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Aug 22 11:08:24 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 22 11:12:40 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Sep 17 17:29:07 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 22 01:33:00 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 23:33:18 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 23:45:43 -0800 2009 1 The Moviegoer doesn't talk about film a lot - now and then, sure, it mentions a specific movie, but the title seems to me to be more of a metaphor for the narrator's passive life. Raffish and seamy Jack "Binx" Bolling spends most of his time watching, not acting.
...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 09:50:38 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 10:09:13 -0700 2009 The Moviegoer for the second time. The first time was in college when I was a little too headstrong and mired in my own wonder to accept the ennui of Binx Bollings as more than irritating. Now that I am that guy, sans the love of movies, I can relate to it a lot better, and loved the...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 06:08:37 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 06:49:54 -0700 2009
Like many others have mentioned, this book isn't really plot centric as it is character centric (though much development is not to be had) and is more or less hinged on several excerpts of Kierkegaard's philosophy whic...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 18:23:30 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 18:25:59 -0700 2009 The Moviegoer provided my first exposure to Walker Percy. I encountered it long ago in an unconventional literature course at UVA, where the focus was on types of main characters that seem to be ascendant in modern fiction. In that course, this narrator was called a "quietist" and was comp...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 17:28:05 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 17:30:27 -0700 2009
The narrator -- who is, awesomely, named Binx -- is a fellow not entirely sure of his role in life, and this low-on-plot novel deals mostly with his musings and his efficient, accomplished sketches of the people and places around him. Binx, who ...more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Apr 26 18:50:01 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 18:56:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 15:01:30 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 15:07:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jan 11 00:03:52 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 18:50:08 -0800 2009
Probably that's why I didn't really enjoy Th...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=10739