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Title: Lost in the Cosmos : The Last Self-Help Book by Walker Percy ISBN: 0-312-25399-0 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.54 (26 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: hardbound spam
Comment: This is the first Walker Percy book I read. I thought his stuff was supposed to be funny. I'll try another. I suggest you give this one a miss, unless you've never read a self-help book, then perhaps this would be more entertaining than doing so.
Some of his questions recall late nights as a college student, gabbing on the sofa rather than studying.
Really, the calibre of the humour -- inane -- reminded me of the kind of spam I used to get and that now gets deleted unread.
Skip it. Any reputation he has as a humourist can't be founded on this effort.
Instead, read Henry Miller's The Cosmological Eye. Then, sit on a sofa with a college student 'til 3 a.m.
Rating: 5
Summary: all the prodding questions you never wanted to face
Comment: Walker Percy has written a book that never really answers any of your questions but somehow leaves you feeling as if you have a broader understanding of what it means to be human. He is witty, sarcastic, entertaining and painfully honest. This is a wonderful book that should be read by anyone wishing to understand the human condition. I'm not even sure how to describe it. Just get it and you'll know what I mean. I had to read it for a culture and values class about 10 years ago and have gone thru 5 coppies from lending them out and never getting them back. :)
Rating: 5
Summary: Percy asks the best questions!
Comment: Walker Percy unleashes a breathtakingly challenging set of questions upon the reader. He wonders why we can feel terrible and abstracted one moment, but wonderful and alive after surviving a bullet wound. He asks whether we actually feel happy to hear that our next door neighbor has had a great good fortune or whether we merely feign happiness. Why wouldn't we be genuinely happy for our neighbor? Is it possible something might be wrong with us?
After proving a variety of points through asking his difficult questions, Percy goes on make a serious attempt to remedy the fact that we know far more about the orbit of the planets than we do about ourselves. Some of the concepts he originates in "Lost in the Cosmos" should be studied by mental health professionals everywhere. What he is attempting in this book is nothing less than to uncover the mystery of ourselves and why it can be so hard to get through an ordinary Wednesday afternoon.
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Title: The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do With the Other by Walker Percy ISBN: 0312254016 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Moviegoer by Walker Percy ISBN: 0375701966 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Signposts in a Strange Land : Essays by Walker Percy ISBN: 0312254199 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy ISBN: 0312243111 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Second Coming : A Novel by Walker Percy ISBN: 0312243243 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 13 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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