Sherry can’t hack Walker Percy’s novel The Moviegoer. “Now I get it,” she writes. “This narrator, Binx Bolling, is nuts. But of course, he speaks truths in the midst of his madness. (Whoops, Eldest Daughter says I don’t get it at all. I’m Prufrock: ‘That is not it at all. That is not what I meant, at all.’)” Heh, heh. If I could, I’d go on a Walker Percy reading binge just to pique Sherry’s interest in reading more of his work. Probably wouldn’t work.
You may recall that I wrote about the same book a while back, finding it pretty generally opaque.
Which, when you think about it, doesn’t prove much.
Hey, thanks, Lars. I’m glad that a real bona fide writer-guy didn’t get it either.
Ad I’m glad to have instigated a chuckle for Phil.
I’ve never made it through “The Last Gentleman”. I keep looking at it laying there in my ‘to be finished’ pile, and nothing at all compells me to pick it up.
I did LOVE “The Second Coming”.
I did not remember that, Lars. I remember that you reviewed “The Thantos Syndrome” or whatever the title, but not this one. I thought this was a popular book among some.
Faith, I don’t know what to think of your comments, so I usually don’t respond. Your last comment crossed the line for apparent sarcasm and sacrilege, so I removed it.
Are you bitter about something? Are you trying to tell us something?
Phil, I did a non-review of The Moviegoer last November: https://brandywinebooks.net/?post_id=1236
Judy, I liked The Second Coming too. That one I got.
The most approachable, though, is The Thanatos Syndrome.