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  • From: Hghwy6 AT aol.com
  • To: percy-l AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Percy reader needs rec.'s
  • Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 21:32:25 EST


Glad to see this list is vibrant again. By way of introduction, I am a 24
year old student who was introduced to Percy in a secondary teachers'
workshop. That session dealt mainly with semiotics, but it gave me the bug
to pick up a book I had been given a couple of years before in a Southern
Lit. class.
The first novel I read was also The Moviegoer, followed by Lancelot.
Though I appreciated the dark humor and intrigue in Lancelot; I would
recommend Last Gentleman to your friend, especially considering the age.
Both books deal seriously with questions of death, but I think the latter
balances the love and hope stuff in a way that might be more palatable to a
younger reader. Not that I mistrust the judgment of your friend or any other
reader, just an opinion in hindsight. I consider myself fairly jaded, but
after a spell of reading all the novels back to back, the dark content,
particularly the fixation with suicide, began to get to me a little more than
I would have anticipated.

John Biundo




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