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    <body><![CDATA[Wow! Just finished this wonderful journey of a book. Barrett is a wonderful surreal character living on the edge of his own life. He holds in his soul the confusion and disorientation that comes from living old in a modern world. Incredible. Percy is a master of both dialogue and the stream of consc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52255046">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book. It was strange; the author made some interesting choices, like calling his narrator &quot;the engineer&quot; all the time, instead of by his name. This was odd, because all the characters called him by his name, but for the first part of the book he doesn't interact with ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55983825">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Walker Percy, a much-honored novelist, might be best known in some circles for his noble effort to get the great &quot;Confederacy of Dunces&quot; published after its author, John Kennedy O'Toole, committed suicide.  Percy knows great writing when he sees it, and his 1966 novel,&quot;The Last Gentle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72395666">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book, based in small part on Dostoevsky's The Idiot, is, is, is everything.  The final pages will make you tremble or cry, or just appreciate how we kiss and kick around despair.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There is something about Percy's work that lingers with you after you have finished reading it. I think part of it is the lack of true resolution in his novels. I suppose this is related to Percy's view of humans as wayfarers. Our journeys last our whole lives. It is springs from the characters and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43400940">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a little difficult to know what to make of Percy's lost protagonists.  The Last Gentleman and The Moviegoer bear a lot of resemblance to one another, and I must confess that I'm never sure that I've quite grasped where these protagonists come from or where they are going.  <br/><br/>The doubt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35160262">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first Percy, and it was by turns compelling and infuriating, much like The Idiot upon which it is loosely based. I didn't know anything about the book before I selected the unjacketed copy from the shelf at my local library, nor much about the author, save for what <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1582229.Comfortably_Numb_How_Psychiatry_Medicated_a_Nation">Charles Barber</a> had to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18039292">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second Walker Percy novel I have read (my brother Wesley got it for me for this past Christmas), and it seemed a good fit for me. A southern boy moves to NYC and struggles with identity and the meaning of contemporary life. Right up my alley, so far so good. And I loved &quot;Love In the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13005176">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm afraid many of the metaphors and meanings of this book went over my head.  Percy is too transcendent for us mere mortals.  I don't know that I really like Walker Percy anyway, although I can see his use of language is good.  I am surprised that this is loosely based on The Idiot.  I haven't read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30735414">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have pretty mixed feelings on this one.<br/><br/>It started out beautifully, reminding me of the first part of Winter's Tale:  an early 20th century urban fantasy set in New York; a romance triggered by stealth and coincidence.  <br/><br/>But the romance was just a gateway to the rest of the n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2148025">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Percy takes a while to get where he's going, but for a reason. His playing with the themes of immanence and transcendence is creative and thought-provoking. I will definitely return to this book again.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good for Southerners that feel out of place in New York City, but not Percy's best.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not exactly sure when I went through my Walker Percy phase, but I know it was in the 80s.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not exactly a page turner, but brilliant. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So far this is better than the moviegoer]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I hadn't read Percy in several years and had almost forgotten what a good stylist he is. The story - a Southerner adrift in New York who gets caught up in the complicated lives of a dying contemporary and his eccentric family - takes a while to get going, then drags a bit when they get back down Sou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14277357">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Huh. The official description of this book seems a little lacking.  The Last Gentleman was about so much more to me.<br/>Walker Percy really captured this certain state of mind so well--of being lost, not quite in your body, not quite rooted, constant low level anxiety, lonliness--and the way it re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28892955">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book, because I identified with the main character, 'the engineer', a young single man from the south living in New York.  The engineer goes on a wild odyssey across the country when he becomes involved with a rich family from Georgia.  Each family member has a different world view and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11574404">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;New York is full of people from small towns who are quite content to live obscure lives in some out-of-the-way corner of the city.  Here there is no one to keep track.&quot;]]></body>
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