Stoner (John Williams)

A semi-famous work of fiction about a failed life, with lessons about how you, too, can be a failure if you don't act like a man.

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"When I was very young, my mother told me that the chief value of good fiction is it allows the reader to better understand other men and women. Even so, I have never read much fiction. Moreover, most of what I do read is science fiction, which is usually not “good” in the sense of reflecting the reality of mankind. Perhaps this shows a lack in me, an inability or unwillingness to try to inhabit the minds of others. It is not for nothing that I am sometimes deemed a sociopath. Regardless, Stoner shows that my mother was correct, even if the book mostly demonstrates how other men and women can be grossly defective. . . ."