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The late Walker Percy's mordant contribution to the self-help book craze of the 1980s deals with the heavy abstraction of the Western mind and speculates about why writers may be the most abstracted and least grounded of all. (Before taking up novel writing, Percy was a medical doctor who became a patient in the very institution where he had worked.) The book disappeared for a time. Now it's back in print. Take the quizzes in it, then take a walk--you need to be back in the world before you write another word.

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1.0�toiles sur 5 hardbound spam, Mars 2 2004

Par	"thecompostlady" (Okanagan, B.C.) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This review is from: Lost In The Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book (Paperback)

This is the first Walker Percy book I read. I thought his stuff was supposed to be funny. I'll try another. I suggest you give this one a miss, unless you've never read a self-help book, then perhaps this would be more entertaining than doing so.

Some of his questions recall late nights as a college student, gabbing on the sofa rather than studying.

Really, the calibre of the humour -- inane -- reminded me of the kind of spam I used to get and that now gets deleted unread.

Skip it. Any reputation he has as a humourist can't be founded on this effort.

Instead, read Henry Miller's The Cosmological Eye. Then, sit on a sofa with a college student 'til 3 a.m.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 all the prodding questions you never wanted to face, Mars 15 2003

Par	"littletea" (central IL) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This review is from: Lost In The Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book (Paperback)

Walker Percy has written a book that never really answers any of your questions but somehow leaves you feeling as if you have a broader understanding of what it means to be human. He is witty, sarcastic, entertaining and painfully honest. This is a wonderful book that should be read by anyone wishing to understand the human condition. I'm not even sure how to describe it. Just get it and you'll know what I mean. I had to read it for a culture and values class about 10 years ago and have gone thru 5 coppies from lending them out and never getting them back. :)

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5.0�toiles sur 5 Percy asks the best questions!, F�v 6 2003

Par	Hunter Baker "Hunter Baker" (Houston, TX) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Lost In The Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book (Paperback)

Walker Percy unleashes a breathtakingly challenging set of questions upon the reader. He wonders why we can feel terrible and abstracted one moment, but wonderful and alive after surviving a bullet wound. He asks whether we actually feel happy to hear that our next door neighbor has had a great good fortune or whether we merely feign happiness. Why wouldn't we be genuinely happy for our neighbor? Is it possible something might be wrong with us?

After proving a variety of points through asking his difficult questions, Percy goes on make a serious attempt to remedy the fact that we know far more about the orbit of the planets than we do about ourselves. Some of the concepts he originates in "Lost in the Cosmos" should be studied by mental health professionals everywhere. What he is attempting in this book is nothing less than to uncover the mystery of ourselves and why it can be so hard to get through an ordinary Wednesday afternoon.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 Laugh yourself sane. (More or less)
This book is deeply funny, in the best way. It is not frivolous, except in the sense of parodying frivolity, nor is it flippant, nor even does it tell "jokes. Read more

Publi� le D�c 15 2002 par David Marshall

5.0�toiles sur 5 BACK IN PRINT! WOO HOO!
Allow me to shout it to the clouds: "I AM A PRODUCT OF WALKER PERCY!"

With Phil Donahue back on the air, Walker Percy's 1983 self-help book seems less dated now then it did in... Read more

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5.0�toiles sur 5 Illustrating absurdity by being absurd!
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