/lit/ - Literature

>>16178374
except for me

Id have beat the shit out of edith LOL jk guise :3

>>16178374
I'm more of a Buck Mulligan myself.

>>16178374
That book fucking sucks. Your taste in literature is shit.

>walker
>is crippled
bravo

I'm more of a Gregory Berrycone

>>16178374
Did Stoner handle Walker in the best way? Seems you always have to give in and conform to survive in this world.

>MR STONER YOU HAVE NOT HEARD THE LAST OF THIS!

>>16178374
This is the first audiobook I ever bothered to give a chance and it was absolute kino

>>16178374
this book changed my life

>>16178734
how?

>>16178374
Just read the entire plot on Wikipedia, what a gay book haha
>muh war
>muh cancer
>muh cheating
>muh bad student
>muh shit book
>muh annoying wife
>muh boring life
>muh academic job
>muh mean boss
>muh alcoholism
Is this all amerifatts have to offer?

>>16178966
I raped my wife and now i'm in jail

>>16178993
im amerifatt mutt i'm the 56% lmfao'

>>16178966
I realized it's okay to live an ordinary life

>>16180078
>I realized it's okay to live an ordinary life
Is that the conclusion you came to from the book? First of all, being a professor isn't ordinary in the first place; that's a bourgeois lower-middle class sort of job, not really your average Joe type of work. Second of all, Stoner makes no impact on the world, his life was mostly a futile gesturing towards a constantly fleeting sense of happiness, he never seems to act of of volition but out of passivity or casualness, and he dies estranged from his entire family with only one friend, who even on his deathbed seems very distant from him. How does any of that make you think "this is okay"? What a weak take. If the book's goal is to normalize mediocrity then 1. that's a stupid goal and 2. it fails.

>>16178682
No, he's too awkward for that. Ideally he would have tried harder to coax Walker into taking his study seriously and develop more than superficial rhetorical skill. Maybe it wouldn't have helped but he just gave up so quickly.
Walker is a cunt, but we never see how much of that is Lomax's influence.

>>16180078
>>16180092
It's not about mediocrity or ordinariness at all. Stoner is a guy who starts life as a p-zombie and manages to make exceptional gains for someone of his position. The fact that most of his worldly struggles are futile and that he never fully overcomes his nature as a passive creature of duty is the cost of keeping the narrative believable.

>>16180092
Most people end up worse than that.

<ahem>

<clears throat>

He raped his wife.

>>16178624
>>16178684
You two made me lol considerably.

I'd rather be Henry Chinaski than William Stoner