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The Moviegoer

De: Walker Percy
Narrado por: Christopher Hurt
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A winner of the National Book Award, The Moviegoer established Walker Percy as an insightful and grimly humorous storyteller. It is the tale of Binx Bolling, a small-time stockbroker who lives quietly in suburban New Orleans, pursuing an interest in the movies, affairs with his secretaries, and living out his days. But soon he finds himself on a "search" for something more important, some spiritual truth to anchor him.

Binx's life floats casually along until one fateful Mardi Gras week, when a bizarre series of events leads him to his unlikely salvation. In his half-brother Lonnie, who is confined to a wheelchair and soon to die, and his stepcousin Kate, whose predicament is even more ominous, Binx begins to find the sort of "certified reality" that had eluded him everywhere but at the movies.

©1961 Walker Percy (P)1992 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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"In a gentle Southern accent narrator Christopher Hurt delivers the story with a slow, lazy lilt which suits the text and evokes a pervading spiritual emptiness." ( AudioFile)
"Clothed in originality, intelligence, and a fierce regard for man's fate....Percy has a rare talent for making his people look and sound as though they were being seen and heard for the first time by anyone." ( Time)

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A very worthwhile experience.

The narrator was excellent, especially with the male voices. I also thought the writing was distinctive, intelligent, and cleverly amusing. Not at all disappointed in this selection which I have been meaning to read all of my adult life. Now going to move on to other novels by Walker Percy.

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Sooooo needs updated description

I get what the purpose and attempt of this book was and is
Very Tennessee Williams in its floral description of beautifully complex personalities

However unlike a Williams story it seems to lack a climax
And characters are more or less the same in the end

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A classic. Reader butchers some names.

One of the better books about NOLA. The reader (from 1992) butchers some of the street names.

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So many memories of my growing up

Walker Percy recreates the New Orleans of my youth, so many memories.
Outstanding writer this walker Percy, the way he presents the story is particularly wonderfully different. Anyone will enjoy it but if you’re from New Orleans you’ll enjoy it more.

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Entirely entertaining!

I loved it. Will listen to more of Walker Percy’s books. The sayings are priceless.

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I'm sure it is good...

Any additional comments?

Am sure it was good but I could not get into it after multiple attempts. The narrative style is scathingly matter of fact, not for me.

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Love the Lit -- but ...

A story about a young man realizing the misery of the human condition, and his decision to make the best of it. After all, life is better than the alternative.

Of course, it's a classic. I laughed out loud a few times. Hated to see it end. But is there a reason New Orleanians have to suffer narrators and actors and readers who can't discover correct pronunciations of words that matter to a story? Would it be impossible to find a New Orleans native to read such a story? Almost 100% of the time throughout this book, the narrator gets the proper names of people and places laughably wrong. It's pathetic and distracting. I guess it's the human condition.

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Great book

I've always wanted to read The Moviegoer but never managed to get around to it. Listening to it was a great alternative. The narrator is excellent, and the story, while not having much action, is beautiful in its prose, its development of characters and in its themes.

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lilting genius

beautiful language, beautifully read. malaise pervades, but "the search" shines in the careful consideration for character and color.l

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We’d love it if you pronounced our words CORRECTLY

Please come to New Orleans and experience the world that Walker Percy so perfectly recreates. But when you come, do not use this narrator as an example of how to pronounce ANY of our streets, bayous, and towns. It’s just lazy that in this day and age you can’t google the right way to pronounce our words. I’m halfway through and my eyes are sore from all the rolling. Bless his heart.

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