The Last Gentleman Audiobook

" Walker Percy creates the insider's sense of what it is like to be a Southerner, but more importantly, what it means to be a sensitive soul destined to be an observer only, if he cannot find the means to disconnect from the observer position and move into one in which he lives his life. Themes present in The Moviegoer are explored and enhanced here. The Last Gentleman is funny, poignant, and hopeful, even though the characters don't always inspire our sympathy. I read this slowly, savoring the dreamy language and ideas which often pulled me up short because I had thought them myself. Deja vu, indeed. "

" "New York is full of people from small towns who are quite content to live obscure lives in some out-of-the-way corner of the city. Here there is no one to keep track." "

" I hadn't read Percy in several years and had almost forgotten what a good stylist he is. The story - a Southerner adrift in New York who gets caught up in the complicated lives of a dying contemporary and his eccentric family - takes a while to get going, then drags a bit when they get back down South. But it regains its momentum about two-thirds of the way through. There's a little too much philosophizing, and traces of the unintelligible Faulkner, but Percy never loses control of the story. "

" One of my all-time favorite books. I am such a huge Walker Percy fan, and this is one of his best. "

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" Read the whole thing for the reward of the last 20 pages --a true and honest depiction of the moments just prior to death after a prolonged illness. What will you do with your life? What will you do with your death? There's a lot to think on here: memory, identity, recognizing who we are and our place in the world, home and not-home. Challenging, but worthwhile. "

" I confess, I just got tired of it. "

" Walker Percy always amazes me with his ability to channel a Faulknerian voice of the South into the late twentieth century. He always manages to present a cast of characters that are ultimately loveable in their on-the-edge-and-sometimes-off the mark of traditional sanity. "

" Not exactly sure when I went through my Walker Percy phase, but I know it was in the 80s. "

" Another book I don't remember at all (read 43 years ago). But liked all Percy books, so am giving it 3 stars. "

" I love Walker Percy, but this is my favorite. "

" This book, based in small part on Dostoevsky's The Idiot, is, is, is everything. The final pages will make you tremble or cry, or just appreciate how we kiss and kick around despair. "

" Not exactly a page turner, but brilliant. "

" I think this was the first of WP's books I read. I read it again years later and will probably do it one more time. Percy's books are one-of-a-kind and precious(in a good way). Date read is for the first read and approximate. "