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Books that describe to a foreigner what is like to live in burgerland?

>> No.15013869

>>15013862
walden
moby dick

>> No.15013971

>>15013862
The holy bible.

Because you will need some sort of divine intervention when you see how fucking bad this place is.

>> No.15013994

>come to America from random shithole
>"America is bad I hate it"
>refuses to leave and go back home

Why are people like this?

>> No.15014003

>>15013862
Getting dated now, but for intelligent foreigners "White Noise" is pretty good.

>> No.15014014

>>15013994
They know what they are doing.

>> No.15014090

>>15014003
>Getting dated now
How so?

>> No.15014105

>>15013862
"The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America" (1986) by Martin Amis. It's quite funny.

>> No.15014110

>>15013994
Who are you quoting? The pilgrims?

>> No.15014145

Zombie- Joyce Carol Oates

>> No.15014187

Infinite Jest?

>> No.15014201

>>15013862
The communist manifesto

>> No.15014210

Being There by Jerzy Kosinski

>> No.15014325

>>15013862
America by Jean Baudrillard

>> No.15014470

>>15014110
? The pilgrims built this land.

He’s talking about nu-immigrants.

>> No.15014510

Literally Infinite Jest.

>> No.15014534

>>15013862
America by Baudrillard
Also, it's pop lit but could be instructive nonetheless, Fresh Off the Boat by Eddie Huang

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>>15013862
>what is like to live in burgerland?
The hive cities are unremarkable hell holes unless you're affluent to afford to avoid the underclass, then the only pull is either: access to variety/frequency of touring music acts, and plurality of exotic food restaurants you could get in any Western European metropolis, but at a higher density.
It's the rural pace of life and small town/city in vast expanses you're after. >>15013869 This is good, post-Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon; for something more direct, David Lynch's Blue Velvet/Twin Peaks (first season) and A Straight Story approach that + Werner Herzog's Stroszek for despair/hollowing out of agriculture in the Rust Belt

>> No.15014600

>>15014470
Read a book, sweaty.

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>>15014600

>> No.15014669

>>15013862
The U.S. Constitution

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>>15013862
I enjoyed Kafka's Amerika. It's incomplete, so the end it's a little abrupt, but i still think it was pretty good. If you are familiar to Kafka's novels and you like those, i think you'll probably like this one too.
Nevertheless, i'm not american, and if God wills it i will never set foot on that cursed land, so i can't tell if it's an accurate representation on the foreigner life on the USA.

>> No.15014692

>>15013869
Those are about America in the 19th century, not about now.

>> No.15014695

>>15013862
Where can I find the old burgerpunk threads or images?

>> No.15014843

>>15014692
This. Not only is there a drastic difference among regions in America because it’s such a huge place, but there is a drastic difference between American today and America 60+ years ago. I know that’s almost obvious but I think it’s really hard for anyone other than maybe Russians or Chinese to really grasp just how different.

>> No.15014847

>>15013862
"Stoner" feels timeless, and though it's set in America, it only really got popular when it was translated into French in Europe.

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>>15014110
>Who are you quoting?