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14283705 No.14283705[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

What are some books about what it's like to live in a shithole?

>> No.14283713

>>14283705
All anons who don’t live in the USA’s diaries desu

>> No.14283728

>>14283713
based

>> No.14283737
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>>14283713
FUCK eurotrannies

>> No.14283739

>>14283713
The US is a shithole though

>> No.14283763

>>14283705
Is this picture taken in Africa or in one of USA's great black hoods?

I rest my case.

>> No.14283919

>>14283705
Amerika by Kafka

>> No.14283933
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>>14283713
OH NO NO NO NO

>> No.14283937

My Sweet Orange Tree
It's about a poor kid living in Brazil in the 50's.

>> No.14283980

>>14283705
Almost any VS Naipaul.

>> No.14283998

>>14283713
Oh say can you SHAAAART
in the local walMAAAAART

>> No.14284175

>>14283713
Based and freedom pilled

>> No.14284188

>>14283933
You sound gay as fuck when you type that. Also, nice job on posting a literal slum

>> No.14284199

>>14283705
Every human's diary desu

>> No.14284201

>>14283998
What so proudly we expell'd

>> No.14284218
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>>14284188
nice job on getting mad as fuck blackoid amerinigger muttoid 49% goblino atrocidad

>> No.14284258

>>14284218
>>14283933
rent free

>> No.14284267

Down and out in Paris and London by George Orwell

>> No.14284279

>>14283933
This is almost a post-apocalyptic scenery. Where is that?

>> No.14284362

>>14283705
I'm from here....... South Africa

>> No.14284424

>>14284279
based on the signs, I'm guessing NYC

>> No.14284457

>>14284362
nigger

>> No.14284504

>>14283705
The Gospel of Germs, Nancy Tomes.

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>>14284457
That's ""Enlightened Nigger"" to you, dear sir.

>> No.14284808

>>14284279
LA

>> No.14284834

>>14283739
rent free

>> No.14284841

>>14283705
Trevor Noah's book, unironically

>> No.14284902

>>14284279
Looks like Vancouver's Downtown East Side except with palm trees. The place is packed to the gunwales with bums and drug addicts, I don't know why the mayor doesn't just give them free bus tickets to Calgary.

>> No.14284939

>>14284902
No one is retarded enough to accept a ticket to -40 degree winters

>> No.14285355

For Bread Alone is about growing up as a street urchin in Tangier. Beautiful, ugly book. I read the English and French translations; English is better.
I've never read the Cairo trilogy but it's /lit/ approved
The problem with socially-themed African literature is that it tends not to be self-critical.

>> No.14285393

>>14284279
Brazil

>> No.14285397
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14285397

Kite Runner, theres gay rape, plenty of murder and violence, a suicide attempt, and a bunch of hummus snorting camel jockeys generally cumming up dirka-dirkastan

>> No.14285474

>>14284841
based and redditpilled

>> No.14285577

>>14284279
It's los angeles skid row. I live 30 minutes away. A literal part of the downtown city that became a homeless shelter

>> No.14285624

>>14284218
Why do they all look like college kids instead of homeless people

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>>14283713
/thread

All “people” from inferior nations must fight for our scraps. Why do you think the US is the country in which most people desire to immigrate to? And this is despite our large negro population!

Get absolutely REKT, inferiors!

>> No.14285668

>>14285624
Drug addicts just starting out in life. Put a computer in their lap and they're 4chan posters

>> No.14285671

>>14285668
post feet tranny

>> No.14285679

>>14285668
But why are they lounging around with genuine bums?
None of those people are fucking homeless and they could just do their drugs at home

>> No.14285696

>>14285679
I donno really. Never been an addict. Probably got the drugs from one of the others there.

>> No.14285708

>>14285696
I think they are actually larping the junkie life

>> No.14285743

>>14285624
They're republican hired actors

>>14285679
To do some privilege checking

>> No.14286044

>>14285642
Based american.

>> No.14286062

>>14283705
gulag archipelago

>> No.14286069

>>14283713
go to LA or SF and tell me the US isn’t a shithole too in many ways

>> No.14286132

>>14283713
>be amer...
>bang!

>> No.14286192 [DELETED] 

>>14283713
US is not a shithole, it's a bullethole.