Why didn't he kill edith and lomax? Could've solved 95% of his problems.
>>23317603guys i'm just joking but i really wanted to kill them for being assholes to stoner.
>>23317603That would be really mean
is there really a nigga called lomax in this flickwhat does he save trees or what
>>23317603It took him 20 years to figure out how to get his classes back on the menu, I think murder was a bit beyond him. I don't think he hated Edith, I think he just fell out of love with her but figured he might as well just stayed married. She never loved him, it was just a way to escape her abusing father. At least he found real love for a time and that was enough for him. >In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last.Genuinely one of my favorite books I own with some of the best prose and passages I've ever read. Williams was an excellent writer. The deaths and burials of his parents are so touching and that final chapter hit me like a ton of bricks, I was not expecting the description of cancer to be so hard hitting.
>>23317603Just finished this. Why was Lomax such a bastard man? >>23318699The prose is really interesting to me. Simple, but profound. Not even in an overall sort of way, like Hemingway, but I'd read a paragraph that seems pretty straightforward but then I'd go back and read it again realizing how beautifully it was written and how much it conveyed. The final chapters felt surreal and almost pyschedelic with the passing of time. Have you read any other williams?
>>23318968>Simple, but profound. yes. I really love the style this novel is written in. it’s elegant.
>>23317852He fucks college boys and gets pissed off over nothing.
>>23317603He just loved those books so much
>>23318968not yet, I have butchers crossing on my shelf ready to read next once I finish my current book. Hoping for more of those beautiful paragraphs...
>>23319461So he is literary me plus sex
>>23319461neither of those are true
