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Quality
With the thanatos syndrome a franklin signed first edition this was my gift to my son upon his high school graduation
If you like the taste want to sup more on the strangeness of life the quality by which reality so often surpasses mere novels y... Read More
Would give it only three stars if not for the prophetic quality of the writing
Packaging/appearance
But trying to squeeze this weird topsyturvy yet familiar world into a few words is like trying to put the bubble bath back in the bottle
The two novels love in the ruins and the second coming lost in the cosmos which he referred to ironically as a “selfhelp manual... Read More
Competitiveness
Love in the ruins is a faustian comedy a delicous complex read
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novel, catholic, good, through and here. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 156 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 1 2021.
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I first read this book when it was originally published in the early 70s
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Walker percy satirized the extremes found in the culture at the time the sexual revolution the revolution in the catholic church following vatican ii even the civil rights movement
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A captivating somewhat tongue in cheek but all too credible story about the fall of the united states as seen through the eyes of a deeply flawed but sympathetic figure
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Given the current fractured state of american politics and american society in general youd never know that percy wrote this book four decades ago
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He is the one who finally got john kennedy tooles a confederacy of dunces published after being rejected many times
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Living in new orleans a month after the city was emptied of people by an apocalyptic flood directly attributable to crumbling infrastructure was so evocative of love in the ruins that it was haunting
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While the book is by a catholic author and discusses some catholic points it is not offputting
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He knows something terrible is going to happen and prepares to survive it
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