A review by wohnjick
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Its just boring. There's practically no plot and we're forced to follow perhaps the least interesting person ever conceived by fiction as he just wanders around Louisiana trying to bang his secretary and find the meaning of life. There's an onslaught of minor characters who basically serve as nothing more than NPCs who provide exposition dumps or fetch quests, with none of them really standing out. On top of it all, Binx Bolling is just kinda weird (lots of observations about Jews and "Negros" and almost always identifying women by their attractiveness first). The only saving grace is that Percy is a good writer formally: his prose is more often than not readable and at times poetic. Overall, one of the weakest existentialist novels I've read (though not as bad as Nausea)