- I just finished Stoner, whatsapped a friend of mine straight after closing the book. Do all the classics have to be dark AF? Anyway, go for it if you haven't done so already, you will love it. - Yeah, I have read it, he swiftly responded, it's sublime. - I guessed so, you are a 2666 fan. - Also go for Augustus from the same guy, he added. Shortly afterwards, I rated it four stars in Goodreads, maybe even five would had been fair: The book does a perfect job to describe the life of a passionate university professor with a failed personal life. Of course, the author makes sure that the depression tone is properly set on the very first page whereby the aftermath of the professor's death is depicted (which is clearly none, the guy was completely forgotten after a few years) So just got me wondering, when was the last time that I read anything non morbid? Voltaire's Candide came in mind which I read more than five years ago. On a second thought, even Eco's novels wer...