Book #28: The Moviegoer
Coming off reading The Sound and the Fury, I really needed a novel like The Moviegoer.
Reading Walker Percy is a relaxing experience. This book made me feel like I should be sitting in a rocking chair on the front porch of an old house in the Deep South. I’m not sure what it is, but The Moviegoer has a sepia-toned feel of nostalgia to it, unlike any other I’ve read.
But here’s the thing about The Moviegoer. There’s not much of a plot in the traditional sense.
It’s about a 29-year-old New Orleans stockbroker named “Binx” Bolling who spends his time going to movies and chasing the ladies. Though somewhat successful in his career, Binx is more passionate about “the search”—hunting down the ever-illusive meaning to life that we all search for.
He frames it this way:
