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Original Title:	Love in the Ruins
ISBN:	0312243111 (ISBN13: 9780312243111)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1972)

Love in the Ruins

Walker Percy

Paperback | Pages: 416 pages

Rating: 3.86 | 3246 Users | 262 Reviews

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Title	:	Love in the Ruins
Author	:	Walker Percy
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 416 pages
Published	:	September 4th 1999 by St. Martin's Press (first published 1971)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature. Classics. Novels. Christianity. Catholic. American. Southern

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“Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.”
― Walker Percy, Love in the Ruins



Every time I read Walker Percy I fall in love. I seduce myself into thinking I'm actually just a bad Catholic and promise myself that next time I get a chance I will lose myself in the desert, the woods, or anywhere I can see the cold stars and the burning sand and live forever somewhere in between.

Reading another Percy novel is like discovering an unopened can of cashews in the cupboard. The amount of joy and delight I get from reading and laughing at Percy's absurd view of religion, life, love, the modern era, etc., is really only approached by a handful of lightly salted cashews and sex. 'Love in the Ruins' is messy and weird and probably could have been edited a bit, but it ALL still works perfectly for me. I laughed through every paragraph and each mark of punctuation. Percy's bad, crazy genius, almost polygamist, Catholic protagonists speak to me in ways that most philosophers (old and new), preachers (godly and godless), and politicians (left or right) fail to. He seems to occupy the ground of the fellow traveler who is just as lost and mistaken as you, but possesses a bit more whit and some extra whiskey.

So where does this novel stack up? It was like a friendly dystopian novel. It was like McCarthy decided to write a comic novel. The vines of his morality slide and creep through every page and his humor dances like a purple martin at dusk. The book might only be objectively a four star novel, but this is my review dammit and I own and carry my biases and I love Walker Percy because he makes me want to both believe AND misbehave.

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Ratings: 3.86 From 3246 Users | 262 Reviews

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Capsule Review: Don't Read Walker Percy. Ever.Longer Review: If somebody recommends this book (or any other of his books) to you, rest assured that that he will one day soon try to convince you that the Eagles really are rock n' roll. Afterwards, he will probably inflict some of his "poetry" on you. You know the kind of stuff I mean: four-line stanzas in ABAB that will inevitably rhyme the words "pain" with "insane," "soul" with "hole," "heart" with "apart," and "feel" with "unreal." Luckily,

This is a cynical, farcical, joyful ride through the not-so-apocalyptic post-America. At the beginning, Percy tells us that the end of America has come, and what is left is a fractious, conceited, egoistic culture. The liberals have their manias, the conservatives theirs, and guerilla groups hold the perimeters of society. Hippies have withdrawn "to the swamp." Tom More is somewhere in the middle of it all--a bad Catholic whose only sorrow is his lack of penitence over his wicked ways.Yet More

I had a hard time reading this book. I put it down a number of times and it took me a month to make it through. Full review to follow soon....

Walker Percy has expertly taken us along a 4-day long journey close to the end of the world. Our protagonist is a bad Catholicbut hes the best protagonist we could have asked for. Although he is troubled, depressed, a sex-addict, and a drunkard, he is also real and honest, and hes the only character who keeps his head while the world falls apart. The religious, Christian, and biblical references throughout the book make it an incredibly enjoyable read for religious people, especially those with



Robert Moynihan, reporting from Rome, "Inside the Vatican Magazine" Newsflash, Letter from Rome, #22: 'I studied the works of Walker Percy, the American Catholic novelist, when I was in college, at Harvard. I went to meet Percy in 1977. His most important book is a collection of philosophical essays entitled The Message in the Bottle. The entire goal of his writing was to show how the historical events of Christian history constituted a "message" which brought life to people who were in the

Hard to justify the time spent writing this review but I can't just give something one star and not explain. I thought this story was slow and meandered too long without direction. There was too much introspection, it lacked a feeling of cohesion, and there was too little meaning for everything that was happening (which wasn't much) in the first 150 pages for me to justify spending any more time with it. I just didn't care and was bored out of my mind. I had hoped for more since I'd heard great