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I'd love to just turn you loose on any number of books I want to have read but prefer not to read

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tell me and i'll see what i can do!

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Those midcentury "men's novels" about someone who has tenure but is depressed by his wife's body, the Gnostic Gospels, Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded, Gibbon.

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oh I love Pamela! I wrote about Pamela ages ago for the Toast but it might be reworth a visit. I can't think of any tenured men's novels along those lines except for Stoner, though, I'm afraid

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"worth a revisit" lol I am sleep deprived sorry

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My ex had a Don Delillo in his stack and I used to pick it up and bellow HE HAD TENURE, BUT HIS WIFE'S BREASTS DEPRESSED HIM. I don't know if this is what the book is about, but it is genuinely what I believe it to be about. (He then tried to make me read Blood Meridian, and then we broke up.)

"reworth a visit" makes perfect sense to me. It has continued to earn visit.

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Lost it at "It’s not a serious height for a man to be"

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The Smallest Man that ever lived? Right on trend....

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I’ve been waiting for Henry to arrive 😂 this is perfection.

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