Stoner
About This Novel
For 50 years, this book has been crazily circulated in second-hand bookstores and underground literary circles. National Book Award winner Colon McCain ranked this book among his top ten favorite novels, and Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks said it was one of the five novels he could not put down. The novel tells about the most important parts of life: love, recognition, compassion, ambition, pride, trust and death. USA, Missouri. The son of a farmer from a remote farm, 19-year-old William Stoner entered the University of Missouri to study agriculture. Starting from an elective literature class, his life changed quietly. In the future, Stoner became a university teacher, got married, had children, taught, retired, aged, and died. At the end of his life, perhaps he can face this question calmly: Do you still expect anything else in your life?
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Official(17)Scraped 22d ago
This is a great book that's been buried, it just has to be paid for!
silence
Many times reality is like a virtual world, which can be either this or that. But in the world built by books or oneself, what appears here are rolling waves on a stable foundation, roaring thunder and lightning, and fearless petrels flying against the wind. If you insist on something, people will suppress you with all kinds of contempt and ridicule. If you can't persist, you will follow the trend. If you persist, it will be compressed on paper. Some people's politeness seems artificial, and some people's attentiveness is meaningless. Many people now find that being ambitious is not a necessary condition for success, but being passionate is indispensable. Those cisgender people in novels are indifferent, they are straightforward, stupid and paranoid, and they are not afraid of the future.
higher expression of tragedy
There are two kinds of tragedies in the world, one is that everyone dies and the stage is full of corpses, and the other is that everyone is alive, but everyone is unhappy. Stoner perfectly interprets the second kind of tragedy. At first glance, Stoner's life experiences are unremarkable. There are not many ups and downs in his life. The only thing that brings him pain is the failure of his marriage. The disagreement about his daughter's education makes their relationship quickly fall into the abyss. , The loneliness and anger of being repeatedly suppressed at work, and the forced breakup with his lover, have formed such a tragic image that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. This image comes slowly but is engraved in the bone marrow. I have never sympathized with human beings so strongly. This is a great hymn to praise ordinary life.
Is Edith's changeable and mean character a result of not having experienced the baptism of education and certain hardships?
This is a boring book. However, the description of the characters is extremely delicate and the story is gentle. What I feel the most is Stoner's loneliness. Every time he gets the inspiration to treat life enthusiastically, he loses it again, until the feeling of loneliness is repeated over and over again, making people depressed and dull.
What else did you expect?
Stoner finally reconciled with himself, and the feeling of alienation is the source of life.
Just like you and me
Even if you can't have a perfect life, fortunately you can pursue your complete self.
Stoner's life is a portrayal of the lives of many ordinary people. Reading and teaching, getting married and having children, cheating and arguing, and dying from illness. Although he failed, he devoted his enthusiasm. Although you failed, living your life is more important. Therefore, you should live seriously and just choose one thing to devote your passion to.
The story is unremarkable, but it reflects the lives of many people.
I am a pessimistic pragmatist. This is part of life, an ordinary but not too miserable life. In this kind of life, we need to find the things and people we love so that we won't be so miserable.
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Official(17)Scraped 22d ago
This is a great book that's been buried, it just has to be paid for!
silence
Many times reality is like a virtual world, which can be either this or that. But in the world built by books or oneself, what appears here are rolling waves on a stable foundation, roaring thunder and lightning, and fearless petrels flying against the wind. If you insist on something, people will suppress you with all kinds of contempt and ridicule. If you can't persist, you will follow the trend. If you persist, it will be compressed on paper. Some people's politeness seems artificial, and some people's attentiveness is meaningless. Many people now find that being ambitious is not a necessary condition for success, but being passionate is indispensable. Those cisgender people in novels are indifferent, they are straightforward, stupid and paranoid, and they are not afraid of the future.
higher expression of tragedy
There are two kinds of tragedies in the world, one is that everyone dies and the stage is full of corpses, and the other is that everyone is alive, but everyone is unhappy. Stoner perfectly interprets the second kind of tragedy. At first glance, Stoner's life experiences are unremarkable. There are not many ups and downs in his life. The only thing that brings him pain is the failure of his marriage. The disagreement about his daughter's education makes their relationship quickly fall into the abyss. , The loneliness and anger of being repeatedly suppressed at work, and the forced breakup with his lover, have formed such a tragic image that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. This image comes slowly but is engraved in the bone marrow. I have never sympathized with human beings so strongly. This is a great hymn to praise ordinary life.
Is Edith's changeable and mean character a result of not having experienced the baptism of education and certain hardships?
This is a boring book. However, the description of the characters is extremely delicate and the story is gentle. What I feel the most is Stoner's loneliness. Every time he gets the inspiration to treat life enthusiastically, he loses it again, until the feeling of loneliness is repeated over and over again, making people depressed and dull.
What else did you expect?
Stoner finally reconciled with himself, and the feeling of alienation is the source of life.
Just like you and me
Even if you can't have a perfect life, fortunately you can pursue your complete self.
Stoner's life is a portrayal of the lives of many ordinary people. Reading and teaching, getting married and having children, cheating and arguing, and dying from illness. Although he failed, he devoted his enthusiasm. Although you failed, living your life is more important. Therefore, you should live seriously and just choose one thing to devote your passion to.
The story is unremarkable, but it reflects the lives of many people.
I am a pessimistic pragmatist. This is part of life, an ordinary but not too miserable life. In this kind of life, we need to find the things and people we love so that we won't be so miserable.
