Ayyo lit this book good?

ayyo lit this book good?

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Its fucking fantastic. I was super reluctant to start reading it but after getting used to the prose, I couldn't stop. It might be my favourite book. 10/10

Probably his greatest work. If I had to rank them it'd go something like:

Stoner > Augustus > Butcher's Crossing

They're all good though. Read em

Edith did nothing wrong. Stoner didn't put in any effort to try to understand her.

it's so good it should never be mentioned in the same thread with Pinecone and DFW

does he blaze it?

only once every april

Williams certainly wanted us to have pathos for her to an extent as her neurosis were a result of the environment that she was brought up in. She served as a good window to social class and the function of marriage. Stoner was also pretty stunted in that regard as well.

Personally, I felt that time was an important factor in this book. Stoner spends years upon years tiptoeing around Edith, putting up with her roadblocks, until he eventually falls sick and dies. It's probably the most realistic depiction of how we just let our life slip past us.

Ending made my eyes well up in a weird way. Felt sad and happy for him at the same time, especially when he gets to hold his book for the last time.

yes, I regret not reading it sooner. It's pretty short anyway so you should give it a try OP.

One of Yea Forumss actually good meme books

Its great,i finished it in 3 days going through more than a 100 pages on the last day after being obsessed with it during the times i wasnt able to read

One of my favorite books.

It's not good, sorry.

Imagine Stoner happy, like, accomplished. Now, from this perspective it's obvious that he is just another average npc dolt. Only his bad luck makes him ***special***.

Reminder that Stoner raped his wife.

He didn't have bad luck. What makes Stoner a tragic figure is that his life did not lean one way or the other. He questions what he expected of life because not only did he not experience any great epiphany that marked a decisive break, the point at which his life really began (Katherine was as close as he got), but he also did not get to enjoy the little things that gradually accumulate and amount to a life worth living. Stoner is not the anti-Gatsby, he is the anti-Binx Bolling.

Farina did a better campus novel

John Williams disagrees with you and thinks his hero lead a relatively happy life

Wife is property of the husband and vice versa

What the fuck was Edith's problem?

Why did Lomax have a boner for that student?

Was there something going on between Edith and Lomax?

But yeah it's an incredible book, was pleasantly surprised

>edith's problem
it seems that her parents were pretty messed up towards her (possible allusions to her dad abusing her?) and Stoner himself never really tried that hard to reach her, just sort of expected her to always be that beatific vision he had when he first saw her. I mean he sort of asked her what was wrong but not in a way that is effective for people who have gone through trauma.

>muh npc's
has there ever been a more obvious, more banal narcissistic cope.

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I'd rank his books just like you did. I think that's the rating of most of the people who have read his works. Well, I can see someone preferring Augustus over Stoner, but I doubt a lot of people think Butcher's Crossing isn't his least good work.

is the guy on the cover the stoner guy? he looks beta af

All his dreams, hobbies, and ambitions are representative of average upper-middle class npc/dolt. His failure at them and then cope, are slightly above average. Therefore, appeal of the book. Still bad book, btw.

Based retard

Based arrogant retard who's calling a person infinitely more intelligent than him a retard

the npc meme is the most midwit thing imaginable.

>there are people who own the Vintage Stoner rather than the NYRB Stoner

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ayyo meme thread but Stoner is a brilliant model of an attempted stoic in a turbulent, gritty life. more material on this chord—a major C in a bright dusty attic—would lead you toward Malick's To The Wonder or Carver's Cathedral story collection.

side note; your Bry boy here took his first breath in the state of Missouri where William Stoner attends university—the very day John Edward Williams passed. any other esteemed authors exit stage for another to take form? Williams' St. Louis in the novel is terribly accurate—a staunched hub of excess, a last resort, a panicked city that never learned rest after the 1904 World's Fair and never learned sympatico activity either. most of the novel takes place in central Missouri btw, Columbia. St. Louis is where Edith's family resides. isn't major C also a Gass novel? ah, Middle C. (you) me if you wanna see me go on abt something in particular.

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>not dickriding the NYRB
based cringy retard.

loved the book. made me feel sad for him. fuck edith. had an ex like that that had some rape trauma. in the end it made me happy she got raped tbqh, that way she learned a lesson. fuck edith. FUCK EDITH FUCK EDITH FUCK EDITH

>Why did Lomax have a boner for that student?

The student reminded Lomax of himself because they both had a crippling limp.

Stoner would have been an NPC if he just continued studying agriculture so he could become a farmer just like his parents. But he didn't, he followed his passion for literature, and he was successful at it. He became a well looked professor studying what he loves. How does this in any way make him an NPC? What would he have to do for you to not consider him an NPC?