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Title: I don't get it
Review: Walker Percy was an author who came highly recommended to me, so I chose "Lost in the Cosmos" as my first Percy book. Maybe it was the wrong choice, but I found nothing herein to recommend any further reading. Well, nothing is maybe a stretch. There was some interesting dialogue analyzing the rewards of creation between scientists and artists. At one point in the book, Percy states the following forty pages can be skipped. I can picture him laughing at readers who didn't follow his advice, because these pages are nothing more than gobble-de-gook: Unreadable and not at all understandable. The subtitle of this book is "The Last Self-Help Book." I guess this comes from the two places in the book where he highly recommends suicide. Not a book to be read by someone suffering from depression. Or by anyone else as far as I can see. I'm crossing Mr. Percy off my must-read list.
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