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Subject: Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion of Walker Percy

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  • From: "Beck, David A" <dabeck AT iupui.edu>
  • To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [percy-l] non-percy
  • Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:01:43 -0400

Folks,
I know this email has nothing to do with Percy, but an email from Rhonda made me wish that we could discuss the books we are reading (ok, maybe I can couch this in terms like "Percy would've loved this book," etc.).
But I've read two really powerful books this summer (during the first summer session in which I didn't teach): Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" and Phillip Roth's "Everyman." Currently, I am half-way through Delillo's latest novel, a brilliant one btw, on 9/11: "Falling Man."
If this discussion breaks any Percylist rules, maybe we could take it off the list. But these books are really important and deserve a good discussion.
Also, for those who teach and/or want to understand this generation, I recommend, "Generaton Me: Why Today's Young Americans are more Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable than Ever" by Jean Twenge. If you teach and have wondered why a student whines when getting an A- or B+, this book provides some answers.
Anyway, hope I didn't break any percean list rules, but I'd like to breathe some life in this list. I'd like to see a discussion of books, ideas, etc. return, even if they aren't by Percy. But I think that we would bring a percean reading to these works and could discuss them in that way.
What do you think?
-David





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