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

["Gray, Rich" <RGray AT montreat.edu>]

I read The Road last month.  Fine story, much in the flavor of Percy's essay 
"Notes for a Novel about the End of the World."  Does anyone else want to 
comment on this novel?
Rich Gray


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Subject: [percy-l] non-percy
 
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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