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It was mentioned as one of the speaker's favorite novels. The speaker also shared that people who believe they are living in an epic movie or novel tend to be egotistical and delusional.
One of my favorite novels is The Movie Goer.
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Episode: It’s Really That Simple | Ask DS
It was mentioned as one of the speaker's favorite novels. The speaker also shared that people who believe they are living in an epic movie or novel tend to be egotistical and delusional.
One of my favorite novels is The Movie Goer.
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This novel was described as one of the speaker's all-time favorites, and they frequently recommend it due to its unique blend of Southern stoicism.
And most of all, it turned me on to Walker Percy and his kind of Southern stoicism turned me on to one of my all-time favorite novels which would be The Movie Goer which I recommend all the time.
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Ryan Holiday mentioned reading this book by Walker Percy, and referenced an exchange of letters between Percy and his adopted father about the relative importance of grades versus character and finding one's life purpose.
One of my sort of literary heroes is the writer Walker Percy who wrote this great book, The Movie Goer, which is sort of about adolescent angst.