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Books about suburban life?

>> No.16140130

>>16140098
don't get drunk/on drug in that place

>> No.16140132

>>16140098
it's awful and alienating

>> No.16140138

The Swimmer

>> No.16140152

>>16140138
good choice

>> No.16140238

>>16140098
God that looks like a soulless place to live, at least the grotty brown-brick suburbs of my English town are full of character and characters, this is one of those places that looks like it was designed by AI.

>> No.16140280

Some suburbs aren't this soulless, planned looking

>> No.16140382

>>16140098
Catch-22

>> No.16140394

>>16140098
how would you fix this?

>> No.16140398

Bullet Park
White Noise

Both great explorations into American suburbia

>> No.16140416

>>16140394
Cleanse our cities so decent people can live in them again

>> No.16140432

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Revolutionary Road

>> No.16140447

>>16140098
Any supermarket book targeted at middle aged women. If you know you know.

>> No.16140570

>>16140416
>Cleanse our cities
Ethnically?

>> No.16140581

>>16140447
my mum reads these lol, I got her to read some kierkegaard (works of love) recently and she liked it

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>>16140447

>> No.16140594

NO NO THE UNIFORMITY AHHHHHH NOOOOOOO

>> No.16141809

>>16140280
It’s also that every single house is ranch style with no backyard. It’s a housing development for poorfags.
I bet the same real estate development company made a nice development like 20 miles away.
They deliberately make this look like shit on the same marketing principles that makes Ford call their budget model the “Fiesta”

>> No.16141934

>>16140098
The slamming motion of my head going straight into my very own asshole by the ten year old's dead dog

>> No.16141949

>>16140130
why

>> No.16141981
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>>16140098
Medieval peasants literally had better real estate than the average "middle class" Amerimutt

>> No.16141991

>>16141981
Sorry dude but if your college degree also came with a huge monthly loan payment your not middle class. You live in a shithole because you’re actually working poor and are just flattering yourself.

>> No.16142347

The Corrections

>> No.16143974

>>16140098
>‘Highway by highway the remorseless cars
Strangle the city, put it out of pain, its limbs still kicking feebly on the hills.
Nobody cares. The artists sail at dawn
For brisker ports, or rot in public bars.
Though much has died here, nothing has been born.’
Chris Wallace-Crabbe, ‘Melbourne’ (1963)