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Just finished reading this.
>Those last three chapters ;_;

Can /lit/ recommend some similar books?

>> No.4360450
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4360450

Isn't this one in the sticky link?

Whatever. Enjoy.

>> No.4360493

OP, tell me not. Edith is the most insufferable cunt to walk the Earth. I felt myself trembling with anger while reading about her contempt.

>> No.4360502

>keep hearing about anons crying and losing their shit at the end of Stoner

I don't really think that's the point. The book is subtle. There aren't supposed to be bathtubs full of tears when he dies, because his life wasn't worthy of bathtubs full of tears. And that's where the real power of the book comes from, I guess.

>> No.4360532

>>4360502
They see themselves in the character. Hopefully are moved enough to live a better life, but learn to not let things bother them so much either. It sounds like a subtler Death of a Salesman

My guess anyway.

>> No.4360668

>>4360493
>"Oh, poor anon, he gets mad at a fictional character."

>> No.4360677

>>4360668
>"oh, poor anon, he reads without being immersed in a story to the point where he can truly feel any emotion towards fictional characters."

>> No.4360690

>>4360668
>Reading a great novel
>don't feel emotion

You are doing it wrong.

>> No.4360698

>>4360532
THERE'S A CHECKBOX FOR SPOILER DICKHEAD. AS I CHECKED SO YOU CAN SEE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE.

>> No.4360704

>>4360698
The opening dialogue says that he dies. The entire plot is revealed in the prolog

>> No.4360732
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>>4360698
Death of a Salesman?

The title doesn't say WHICH salesman dies.

>> No.4360877

>>4360677
>>4360690
Did you guys even read the book?

>> No.4360891

>>4360877
Obviously.

>> No.4360915

>>4360502
The author said himself he thinks he is a hero, and that he lived a good life doing what he loved.

>> No.4360917

>>4360698
>reading books for the plots

>> No.4360922

>>4360915
His purist against Walker alone shows just how set he was on preserving academia and protecting future students from a fraud. Stoner protects his study, the integrity of academia.

It is stoners silent war.as Sloane would say, when he denies Walker. Walker and Lomax are representative of what is wrong in our academia today