Reddit reviews Stoner (New York Review Books Classics)
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Stoner
We found 10 Reddit comments about Stoner (New York Review Books Classics). Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
I made a list based on where you can purchase them if you want to edit it onto your post:
This Month's Book
January:
by Iain Banks]
(https://www.amazon.com/Consider-Phlebas-Culture-Iain-Banks/dp/031600538X)
by Aldous Huxley]
(https://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0060850523)
by Ray Bradbury
by Oscar Wilde
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
by Jordan B. Peterson]
(https://www.amazon.com/12-Rules-Life-Antidote-Chaos/dp/B0797Y87JC)
February:
by Richard Matheson
by Frank Herbert
by Haruki Murakami
by Bret Easton Ellis
by Max Tegmark
by Friedrich Nietzsche
March:
by Ernest Hemingway
by Herman Melville
April:
(https://www.amazon.com/Dice-Man-Luke-Rhinehart/dp/0879518642)
https://www.amazon.com/Stoner-York-Review-Books-Classics/dp/1590171993)
(https://www.amazon.com/Crime-Punishment-Fyodor-Dostoyevsky/dp/0486415872)
https://www.amazon.com/No-Longer-Human-Osamu-Dazai/dp/0811204812)
May:
https://www.amazon.com/Spring-Snow-Sea-Fertility-1/dp/0679722416)
(https://www.amazon.com/Runaway-Horses-Sea-Fertility-2/dp/0679722408)
November
Books Pewds suggested but hasn't talked about in any of the episodes yet:
linking pewds to see this u/pewpewpewPEWdie
Stoner by John Williams
It's the most undervalued book I've ever read. The protagonist, a teacher, is either a loser or a hero depending on what you take from the story. The story is frustrating, overwhelming, sad, and touching. I've raved about it on here before, so I won't go much further. Just give it a shot if it looks like your cup of tea. It will stick with you long after you finish... and no it has nothing to do with drugs.
Stoner, by John Williams.
I love finding great, older, books that most people of my generation haven't heard of. Here are two very different novels about the university life:
Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth
Stoner by John Williams (This is NOT about a pothead)
Stoner by John Williams (not the composer) is one of the best novels I've ever read. Fantastically well written, just a wonderful story of an ordinary man's life. I've read two of Williams' four novels (the other being Butcher's Crossing, about 19th century buffalo hunting, also phenomenal) and one of the others is Augustus, a national book award winner. I should get on that one...
Also, The Dog of the South by Charles Portis(author of True Grit, also an excellent book) is a hilarious, wonderful book that I would recommend to anyone. Actually all five of his books are great too.
Oh, can't forget Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban, incredible portrait of a post-apocalyptic world written in its own dialect. It takes a while to get used to, but once you do it's well worth it.
'Stoner' by John Williams - a slow-burn classic about a life unfulfilled. Starting to feel uncomfortably familiar as I get further into my 40s.
Stoner by John Williams--covers the story of Stoner from teen to his death
It's a toss up between:
Papillon by Henri Charrière - optimism in spite of imprisonment and physical difficulties
Stoner by John Williams - "William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world."
Read this book, the premise of which is that even an undistinguished life is worth living. It is also a fantastic work of literature.