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  • From: "Dye, Steve" <sldye AT bluegrass.org>
  • To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [percy-l] The Moviegoer one of Top 100 books of all time
  • Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:41:05 -0400

I am in total agreement about Second Coming being his "best" - and I am but a
lowly man.

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From: percy-l-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org on behalf of RHONDA MCDONNELL
Sent: Tue 7/28/2009 1:24 PM
To: Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion
Subject: Re: [percy-l] The Moviegoer one of Top 100 books of all time


Thanks for posting the link Karey. I don't even think it's his best book.
Here's a discussion topic that might wake our list up: Which book is WP's
best? What makes you think so? For pure pleasure I like THE SECOND COMING
best (l like the love story: I'm a girl that way!). But as for his best, I
cast my vote with LANCELOT. It marks a crucial turning point in his writing,
has as strong a philosophical underpinning as MOVIEGOER, and as far as pure
literary merit, it's crafted better than the others--even MOVIEGOER. I'd
place MOVIEGOER second. What do the rest of y'all think?


--Rhonda

"You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual, because in spite of
great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of
who he is or what he is doing."

Walker Percy




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From: karey1 AT charter.net
To: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:01:17 -0400
Subject: [percy-l] The Moviegoer one of Top 100 books of all time



Percy's Moviegoer makes Time's Top 100 books of all time:



http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html



And here's the original review:



http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,872439,00.html?internalid=atb100



Karey






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