This is a novel of the last 36 hours in the life of Julian English. it is a novel that explores the life of a man who is bent on self-destruction but is not consciously aware of that. Julian English has all the outward signs of success but inwardly is racked with self-hatred. He owns a Cadillac dealership in an affluent small town in Pennsylvania. He lives on the best street, belongs to the best clubs and has access to the most influential members of society. And yet he wants to destroy himself. He takes too much money from his business to support his affluent life. He has borrowed money from Harry Reilly, an influential businessman, to support that business and squandered it on unproductive assets. The business still cannot generate the cash to support his chosen life and he realizes that he will have to borrow yet more money..This leads to a downward descent into even more excessive drinking and a succession of violent self-destructive actions.
Yeah that's exactly what he was as far as i can tell. Talented guy but less brilliant than he thought he was, which always makes for the funniest kind of person
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Pretty stupid for that BUtterfield 8 cover to render the title in all caps. It shows the designer didn't understand the significance of the title in the book, which is that it's a phone number in the classic mnemonic style of the caps showing what to dial.
The moment I saw those satellite dish-sized ears and an upper lip that looked like he injected it with Botox, I figured his name was either Mc, Fitz, or O' something.
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Nobel Prize for Literature should be given only to non-fiction writers.
Effortposters from rdrama.net would wipe the floor every year
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Sounds like he was pretty successful, but just couldn't stop thinking about the people better than him
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the synopsis of his first novel sounds like him
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Yeah that's exactly what he was as far as i can tell. Talented guy but less brilliant than he thought he was, which always makes for the funniest kind of person
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He truly was...an American midwit
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Pretty stupid for that BUtterfield 8 cover to render the title in all caps. It shows the designer didn't understand the significance of the title in the book, which is that it's a phone number in the classic mnemonic style of the caps showing what to dial.
Specifically, it would be B-U-8 for that.
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Sounds like !bookworms have a new candidate for the next read-along
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Some of his novels were apparently unironically good so it wouldnt be a total waste of time
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Thanks for cross linking. I have sniffed your current IP: 63.218.13.211
You're soon to be crossed out (snap)
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the Darqwolff of another age
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Wow that's a name I hadn't seen in a while. What happened to him?
I think the last thing I read is that he and his girlfriend had fled to Mexico or something like that.
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The moment I saw those satellite dish-sized ears and an upper lip that looked like he injected it with Botox, I figured his name was either Mc, Fitz, or O' something.
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