Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time near the End of the World Audiobook

" One of the best novels I have read in a long time - sharply satirical, witty, funny, and tragic all at the same time. "

" I sometimes feel a little abashed to say how much I love this book, because if you're a serious literary person you can *only* like the Moviegoer. But Love in the Ruins is the first book I ever read by Percy, and I thought it was the smartest, funniest, oddest book--all dressed up in this hilarious country-club Southern accent. The world (the late 60s) is divided into Knotheads (conservatives in a delusional rage) and the Leftpapasanes (ineffective, muddied liberals). There's a great line: "The center did not hold. However, the Gross National Product continues to rise." Sounds familiar... "

" fiction:south mid 1900s-----------drunken man searches his soul "

" This book has been thoroughly reviewed and dissected since it's publication more than 40 years ago. Suffice it to say that I found it a great book to read during Advent. Dr. Tom More, a great protagonist. I call him a protagonist in the fullest, best sense of that word "

" This was my favorite Walker Percy story, though it is slightly futuristic (from a 1980s perspective). It's all about Love, baby. "

" Mr. Percy, you were a prince among men. "

" why is percy consistently one of the best american writers? read this book. "

" Written before The Thanatos Syndrome, but I read it on the strength of Thanatos which I'd read 2 years previously. I like the main character. Interesting chap. "

" i suspect walker percy of fabricating john kennedy toole. "

" 74 pages in and I don't give a damn how it ends. "

" Although at times I was rather confused I liked the book. The time skips forward then back which makes you really have to think, and I had to go back and read the first chapter after I was about a third through. "

" I realized that, accidentally, I've been reading Percy's books in the order they were written. "

" Brilliant satire, touching humorously on what it is that makes us human. "

" I really wanted to like this book. A dystopian science fiction novel written by a celebrated Catholic writer? Sounds like something I'd love. Unfortunately, I found the novel to be a bit too tedious and long for my liking. "

" #willrevieweventually "

" Wickedly funny Southern Gothic by one of the great Catholic authors of the 20th century. "

" Clever, insightful. "

" Not as good as the Moviegoer. It's all over the place. As Eliz. says, maybe he didn't get much needed editing once he got big. "

" You can have no idea what a book is trying to say and still like it. "

" hillarious!! a southern vonegut "

" Huxleyan fear, Orwellian description, and good ol' Southern humor rolled into one. Walker Percy's tongue-in-cheek treatise on the "Christ haunted,Christ-forgetting, death-dealing Western world" was written in 1971, but all-too-accurately describes the postmodern reality of today. "

" Wonderful! Funny, insightful, quirky... The language is really creative as well. "