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Really liked this book. The movie is also super fun. Anyone else into Lowry?

>> No.14152733

>>14152728
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKtcnHIImvQ

>> No.14152771

>>14152728
He peaked with UtV. Nothing as good before or after

>> No.14152791

>>14152771
He was just too drunk to write anymore

>> No.14152806

The greatest cuckold novel other than Ulysses

>> No.14152909

>>14152728
I really enjoyed both the novel and the film.

>> No.14154183
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14154183

One of my favorite books. His short prayer to the Marian shrine sticks to me in a way few other lines ever have.
>Please let me make her happy, deliver me from this dreadful tyranny of self. I have sunk low. Let me sink lower still, that I may know the truth.
Haunting.

>> No.14154198

>>14152728
>afterword by Vollmann
Picked up.