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Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book (original 1983; udgave 2000)

af Walker Percy

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"A mock self-help book designed not to help but to provoke; a chapbook to inveigle us into thinking about who we are and how we got into this mess." --Los Angeles Times Book Review Published at the height of the 1980s self-help boom, Lost in the Cosmos is Percy's unforgettable riff on the trend that swept the nation. Filled with quizzes, essays, short stories, and diagrams, Lost in the Cosmos is a laugh-out-loud spin on a familiar genre that also pushes readers to serious contemplation of life's biggest questions. One part parody and two parts philosophy, Lost in the Cosmos is an enlightening guide to the dilemmas of human existence, and an unrivaled spin on self-help manuals by one of modern America's greatest literary masters.… (mere)

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Medlem:	dwtno
Titel:	Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
Forfattere:	Walker Percy
Info:	Picador (2000), Edition: Soft Cover, Paperback, 272 pages
Samlinger:	Dit bibliotek
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Nøgleord:	fiction, hard cover, humor, first edition, autographed

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What a strange, unclassifiable, brilliant book. I can't think of a thing to compare it to. I need some time to sit with it before I declare it the best thing I've ever read, but it blew me away. (

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Adamantium | Aug 21, 2022 |

An engaging and thoughtful book about several topics relevant to our contemporary culture. Percy uses an unusual style like a Socratic provocateur challenging the reader to think about aspects of our culture, the nature of language, and the meaning of life. The book is one that, like those of Plato, Marcus Aurelius, or Wittgenstein, requires concentration, demands rereading, and ultimately encourages the reader to think seriously about the nature of the "Cosmos" and his own life. (

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jwhenderson | Nov 15, 2021 |

I think I might have had too high of hopes going into this. I think Walker Percy is really incredibly perceptive and amazing but I think his talents are still best applied to his fiction. I would like to give it three and a half stars but this is apparently not an option! harumph. (

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uncleflannery | May 16, 2020 |

re-read/re-skim. I thought this book might be one to send to a friend afflicted with nihilism. But probably not. Sharp and funny, in the Percy style.

ben_a | Jun 3, 2019 |

Not sure why I chose this a my first Percy book. I guess the cover description and blurbs won me over. The book itself is interesting, but doesn't really sustain your full attention through its length. It is (or is it?) sort of a parody self-help book, except it isn't (or is it?) Perhaps I need to read it again--but I found it a bit tedious at the time. (

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LA Times Book Prize (Winner – Current Interest – 1983)

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We are unknown, we knowers, to ourselves … Of necessity we remain strangers to ourselves, we understand ourselves not, in our selves we are bound to be mistaken, for each of us holds good to all eternity the motto, "Each is the farthest away from himself"—as far as ourselves are concerned we are not knowers.-- Friedrich Nietzche, On The Genealogy of Morals (1887)

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For my fellow space travelers, John Walker, Robert, David, Jack

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Imagine you are reading a book about the Cosmos. You find it so interesting that you go out and buy a telescope.

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"A mock self-help book designed not to help but to provoke; a chapbook to inveigle us into thinking about who we are and how we got into this mess." --Los Angeles Times Book Review Published at the height of the 1980s self-help boom, Lost in the Cosmos is Percy's unforgettable riff on the trend that swept the nation. Filled with quizzes, essays, short stories, and diagrams, Lost in the Cosmos is a laugh-out-loud spin on a familiar genre that also pushes readers to serious contemplation of life's biggest questions. One part parody and two parts philosophy, Lost in the Cosmos is an enlightening guide to the dilemmas of human existence, and an unrivaled spin on self-help manuals by one of modern America's greatest literary masters.

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