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A review by alleeme
Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy
3.0
Walker Percy went to my high school. He didn't graduate from there, and actually he went to the boys school that later merged with the girls school to eventually become my high school. Anyway, much was made of him back in my high school days, but his work was never required reading even amid a plethora of Southern required reading.
This being the first Percy novel I've read, I can see why it wouldn't really have been recommended to high schoolers... It's just so adult...and I don't mean that in a sexy way (although there is some light sex), rather it's adult in a stressful mental break down sort of way...
Hard to tell if this is truly apocryphal or just the raving of a madman (never date psychiatrists/psychologist). This book's tone definitely reminds me a bit of Vonnegut although only if Vonnegut were Southern and Catholic (by way of conversion which is a whole other beast). Overall interesting, entertaining, and not what I was expecting. But, perhaps ran on a little long in parts.
This being the first Percy novel I've read, I can see why it wouldn't really have been recommended to high schoolers... It's just so adult...and I don't mean that in a sexy way (although there is some light sex), rather it's adult in a stressful mental break down sort of way...
Hard to tell if this is truly apocryphal or just the raving of a madman (never date psychiatrists/psychologist). This book's tone definitely reminds me a bit of Vonnegut although only if Vonnegut were Southern and Catholic (by way of conversion which is a whole other beast). Overall interesting, entertaining, and not what I was expecting. But, perhaps ran on a little long in parts.