“How my friend Maria joined the Sacred Order of the Very 1970s Catholic Social Apocalypse/Baseball Novel.”

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1. Southern Expat says

   December 20, 2012 at 12:17 pm

   Interesting! Had you heard of this book before?

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   • Matthew Lickona says

     December 20, 2012 at 12:24 pm

     I had not.

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     • Southern Expat says

       December 20, 2012 at 2:57 pm

       Let’s buy a Kollektiv copy for the low, low price of $240 and reprint it in Kindle format.

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       • Matthew Lickona says

         December 20, 2012 at 3:11 pm

         And THAT, people, is why we are the most successful Catholic publishing house of 2012.

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2. job says

   December 21, 2012 at 6:51 am

   I had to read this book in high school, believe it or not. Dreadful dreadful dreadful dreadful. At least I thought so at the time. I often thought of it when I read Love in the Ruins for the first time. At first as I began Love in the Ruins, I thought, “I’ve been here before.” When I realized that it was The Last Western I was thinking about, its flaws became all the more apparent.

   I wonder if I still have my copy around here somewhere…

   JOB

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   • Matthew Lickona says

     December 21, 2012 at 10:41 am

     That is so fantastic that you had to read this book in high school. Percy For the Win.

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   • Jonathan Potter says

     December 21, 2012 at 3:18 pm

     Wow. I’m amazed and concerned. I was going to romp right over to ABE and order me up a copy, but now maybe not.

     I had to read Johnny Got His Gun and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in high school. They were both quite excellent, I thought. Prior to that I never had to read anything, and I pretty much didn’t. That’s what they called education in those days.

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