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5630191 No.5630191 [Reply] [Original]

Damn this book is good. Best novel I read so far.

>> No.5630194

>>5630191
>Best novel I read so far.
Must be your first book.

>> No.5630217

>>5630194
Oh, did you read them all? Did you win? Here, take another candy.

>> No.5630219

>>5630217
>Here, take another candy.
Thanks, will do. Cheers.

>> No.5630247

>>5630191
GAY REALL PEOPLE READ COMICS

>> No.5630311

This keeps getting talked about on here and I just found out the author died in my town. Probably going to read it now.

>> No.5630337

I was gonna read this but then someone spoiled the ending for me

>> No.5630372

>>5630337
Read it nonetheless.

>> No.5630387

>>5630372
I might wait for a bit so the ending isnt fresh in my mind, my memory is pretty shit so it won't be long before I've forgotten the ending.

>> No.5630398

>>5630337
Spoiler alert.

>> No.5630402

>>5630191
It's good, but it's not that good.
>>5630337
I don't really see what there is to spoil. Stoner dies and it doesn't end in triumph. It's the journey that matters not the destination and all of that.

>> No.5630419
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5630419

>>5630337

>reading for the plot
>reading for a specific part of the plot

>> No.5630424

>>5630402

Yeah I don't see what the big deal is.
What's the point of reading about the boring life of a ridiculous mediocrity written by a mediocre writer.

>> No.5630433

>>5630419

That's the only thing the book has going for it.

>> No.5630444
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5630444

>>5630433

i don't have a valid counter-argument so instead i'll leave you with an image suggesting that you are a neckbeard and/or ugly and/or socially maladjusted

>> No.5630628

I've been puzzled by the explosion in popularity for Stoner. It's a dour book, with both the story and the writing like a watered-down Richard Yates, and yet it's become a soccer mom fave, spotlighted in bookstores, read by bookclubs. What aspect of it are people responding to?