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Standards of Excellence clearly change over time...What a let down.
Having trudged through 100 pages of The Moviegoer, I finally laid it down for good. How did such an uninteresting story garner a book award of any kind? Perhaps existential angst and plotless storytelling were trendy in the 50's?
There were a couple shining moments in the first 100 pages of The Moviegoer that allowed me to hang on as long as I did - namely, the discussion of "The Search", and the belated introduction of Kate. But these plot-savers - supposedly integral to the story - were treated like every other inconsequential character and moment in the book. They are barely touched on, and seem to be an afterthought.
I'm a philosopher and love existentialism, so one would think this type of book would be right up my alley. Well, an author can lose even a loaded audience if there's no plot and the characters aren't relatable. I could not connect to Binx Boling (except the one or two pages when he describes the Search), nor any other character in this book. Seems to me that a sense of connection to the characters is vital to a novel if you've thrown plot out the window. Hell - Boling really doesn't do much movie-going in the first 100 pages, either! The damn book is called The Moviegoer, but movies rarely make a dent.
Easily one of the most overrated books of the 20th century.
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