2019...I am forgotten

I hold out hope. Film4 is producing it and they tend to eschew cliche.

The normies are coming

People like it because they see themselves in the title character. It's a book about the medioricity of academic life. I've heard some describe it as the American version of Ivan Illych. Which is funny, since Ivan Illych doesn't get memed on here anywhere near as much as Stoner does.

what was the wife's fucking problem

She was a woman

Few remember it with any sharpness.

who's directing?

Casey Affleck I think

Really? Then there is hope

Joe Wright. Look at the tagline. "Everybody must get stoned."

letterboxd.com/film/stoner-2020/

Never mind he’s starring
>everybody must get stoned
What the fuck does this have to do with ANYTHING

>mfw it's directed by the man who did this

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>everybody must get stoned
Bob Dylan won a literature prize, right?

What in the actual fuck

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Bob Dylan’s dream is great

The good news is imdb used to show Joe Wright as the director but his name is no longer there.

So you're saying he was canned and is being replaced? How far into production are they? Have they even started?

Pre-production according to imdb, and they're no longer showing Casey Affleck either.

Kek and mgtowpilled

>that top comment

That’s weird because I think the movie was Casey Affleck’s idea

In Stoner threads, I normally see how people say the book(and the end of the book specifically) made them feel empty, but normally I get the opposite reaction, I have a sort of bittersweet happiness. I feel like the novel is sort of what maybe the stranger wanted to accomplish, in displaying an existential hero

It just made me really sad

He also directed Atonement which is a competent adaptation of a novel. But the weird thing is... he has another project for 2020 that isn't Stoner. Not sure if it fell through.

>Blumhouse is producing
yea it will be shit confirmed

what about it made you sad?

His life was shit and then he died

lmao

See, I don't really think his life was shit. I think the one thing that left me a little in the dark was, because the novel is relatively short, and we cover the whole of Stoner's life, we miss out a lot of the detail in it. That being said, the moments we do see have a stable theme that I think we can apply to his whole life.
Just because he isn't expressively joyful in any part of the book really, and experiences a great deal of sadness(his initial relationship with Edith, how Edith eventually loses her own shy sadness and becomes bitter and calculatingly mean towards him, and the lack of meaning his life appears to have outside of the noble goal of teaching others) doesn't mean he can't be, in a certain sort of way, happy. I myself know that often when I am saddest it only takes a single beautiful thing, to wrench me out of my sadness, and by way of contrast, the happiness is much sweeter. While Stoner experiences a lot of sadness, there are also very beautiful things, stoically beautiful is the best way I can describe them, and I think that despite his sadness, Stoner on his deathbed accepted his death and that life was the way it was, and for me that is, at least if not a happy, a beautiful ending.

Different user here, but I agree with you. Books often have their protagonists go on to do great and wonderful things but Stoner was just a guy who became an academic and then died. It was all very ordinary, like what 99% of our lives will be. With that in mind his joys felt real because it felt like those joys could happen to me; and his antagonists (I can't remember who that asshole who wanted him fired was anymore) felt real too because I can think off many people in my life who are just that petty.

She got repeatedly raped by her husband

bought it in 2013 because everyone on Yea Forums was ranting about it and I never read it lmao.

I didn't get why Sloane got so sad after the war.

this desu. your'e nnot alone

Haven't read it but Butcher's Crossing is pretty good

Glad I got memed into this one desu

Babby's fist real book.
Not in a bad way, but Yea Forums has discussed it to exhaustion over the years.

It really was just "an okay" book. I don't remember much but I genuinely empathized with his wife more than I should have lol

>what was the wife's fucking problem
Obviously mentally ill. Though a lot of it was caused by her parents, in and of herself she was emotionless, self-centered, and vindictive.
>confirmed it will be shit
How could it not? In today’s retarded climate an honest adaptation of the book would hugely fail. “Art house” films need to cater to shitswallowers like . That means Edith, Lomax, and Walker will be turned into the heroes of the piece, and Stoner (cis normal white oppressor from the reactionary Midwest) will become the villain.

I don't know what's that movie about but I like this scene

literally the best novel of all time

Does anyone want yet another film about a white man being awful but it's okay because sometimes he's sad?

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Better that than a white man portrayed as awful merely because he’s (a) white and (b) a man. The plethora of films portraying women and POCs as wonderful, brave, noble, etc. based only on their sex/skin color is getting more than a little tiresome.

stoner wasnt an awful person.

Fucking stop

Weak bait but I'm replying nonetheless.

Haha, liar.

>stoner wasnt an awful person
>rapist
>abuses his students
>obnoxious to his colleagues
>exploits female students in order to chest on his wife

>That means Edith, Lomax, and Walker will be turned into the heroes of the piece, and Stoner (cis normal white oppressor from the reactionary Midwest) will become the villain.
yea, it's not going to happen like in the book.

1. You can't rape your wife, much less in you fucking honey moon
2. The student was a literal retard and a fraud protected by some form of nepotism.
3. He was a top lad with this friends.
4. That's based.

It was awkward virgin sex between two awkward young adults after they just got married. I dont get how it was rape

Going to be a bigger flop than the Goldfinch. The fact it's not produced by a24 or Annapurna is already a bad sign.

When you have sex with a woman but she didn't want to have sex with you, you raped her.

Film4 is producing... but also Blumhouse, so I don't know what to think.

Not if she's already your wife.

I’m honestly curious. Are you trolling, or fucked in the head?

Even if she's your wife. It's crazy I know

So he's not a rapist? He doesn't bully students etc? The book is a portrait of a monster, told in such a deadpan way most of the retards here don't realise.

Depends if you're an Americuck controlled by muh meme laws or an actual Man of Planet Earth.

>He doesn't bully students etc?
Not him but he literally doesn't. He's doing his job. That's how thesis expositions work. The judges ask you hard questions.

I love it and still do

I'm just reading this now, and the part where Walker bullshits through his seminar paper is too real.

That's why the surge in popularity. Bravo, Jews.

>da joos
It's been a popular book since the early 2010s.

that was actually badass

yeah in France, conveniently everybody picked it up just in time for the movie...

even before the movie announcement it was known in America. you can create any conspiracy you want about the jews but this is not one of them, faggot.

wait a minute...

No, he’s not a rapist. He had a reasonable expectation of sex on his wedding night and thereafter. If his wife didn’t want sex with him she shouldn’t have married him. That she did is tacit agreement by her to sex — this is part of the marriage contract. Nor did he bully his students. I take it you’re referring to Walker here, who was an obvious poser and plagiarist and should have been expelled from the school (and would have been except for the protection of Lomax).
>portrait of a monster
LOL, nonsense. You’re reading it through the smeared and dishonest lens of your political/social indoctrination. The retard here is you; you’re the one fucked in the head.

I liked this book. At first i thought it was kind of boring but after a little while i started to really enjoy it.

Intimate, isn't it.

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yeah it's really good. you can read it in an afternoon. get a comfy chair and get ready for some feels

this one was already a classic though

This is unironically all my political views in one video

Judd Apatow

That wojak is punching in front of the cover of The Stranger

>he’s not a rapist. He had a reasonable expectation of sex on his wedding night and thereafter. If his wife didn’t want sex with him she shouldn’t have married him. That she did is tacit agreement by her to sex — this is part of the marriage contract

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Why did the wife turn her daughter into a slut and then was surprised when she was pregnant

If ignorance is bliss you must be the happiest motherfucker on the planet.

>doesn't understand what consent is
>calls others ignorant

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I read that in his voice

>Doesn’t understand what marriage entails
>Thankfully will never reproduce

>marriage entails rape

Marriage entails sex, fool. Stoner had more than a reasonable expectation of sex when marrying Edith (failure to provide sex to your spouse was grounds for divorce back then, and still is). By marrying him Edith gave her agreement and consent to the marriage contract; Stoner was merely exercising his rights/responsibilities under the same. These are all facts; your puerile claims of “rape” are fantasies wholly woven from your ignorance of how the world and the law work.

BTW, screaming “rape” when no such thing has taken place is an affront to actual rape victims. Try to keep their real pain/suffering in mind before spewing whatever progressive trash bounces around inside your empty head.

a book about mediocre sad people living mediocre sad lives