Ryan Holiday's Review of The Moviegoer

“What Makes Sammy Run and The Moviegoer--two favorites in the store too

“My favorite novel: The Moviegoer or What Makes Sammy Run?

“The Moviegoer is almost truer now for the millennial (or generational) experience than it was in the 1960s when it was published. Any reader will relate to the rather ageless angst of the next generation trying to find its meaning and purpose in the world. It is exactly the novel that every one stuck in their own head needs to read. The main character, on what he calls “the search,” is so in love with the artificiality of movies that he has trouble living his actual life in the real world.

“Some books I’ve read and re-read many times: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius The Moviegoer by Walker Percy The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene The Little Girl at the Window by Totto-Chan

“This year I spent some time re-reading everything I had from Walker Percy. As I've gotten older I've found I've loved his writing more and more. He basically took philosophy and novelized it--and while that sounds boring or inaccessible it's so brilliantly done that you don't even realize that's what he's doing. The Moviegoer is almost truer now for the millenial experience than it was in the 60s when he published it.