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Anonymous Mon Jul 7 13:11:08 2014 No.5106393 [DELETED]

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I'm looking for books that go deep into urban areas/metropoles. Books that explore the culture of city-life.

Examples:
Taxi Driver
Neuromancer/Burning Chrome
The Wire
Blade Runner

I know this is very vague but i can't find the words to properly describe what i'm looking for.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 14:05:58 2014 No.5106575 On the Sci-Fi side you might try Perdido Street Station by China Mieville or The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 14:11:40 2014 No.5106585 Also on the sci-fi side - many of Ian McDonald's books do this. Brazyl with Rio de Janeiro and The Dervish House with Istanbul in particular. Also a lot of hardboiled crime fiction. Raymond Chandler in particular. And there's other stuff I'm sure.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 14:13:30 2014 No.5106592 the catcher in the rye

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 14:16:47 2014 No.5106602 invisible cities

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 14:21:20 2014 No.5106614 What 'culture' do you want? Rich? Working class?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 16:38:40 2014 No.5107048 >>5106602 >>5106592 >>5106585 >>5106575 Thanks >>5106614 Doesn't matter, just the culture of vast city life itself.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 16:52:29 2014 No.5107104 Thomas Pynchon's V. William Burroughs' Naked Lunch Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:06:44 2014 No.5107416 cruising - Gerard walker

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:08:21 2014 No.5107427 trainspotting - Irvine welsh

>>	SNOT !BML8daE2ok Mon Jul 7 18:09:21 2014 No.5107431 >>5106393 The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll.

>>	SNOT !BML8daE2ok Mon Jul 7 18:11:05 2014 No.5107436 >>5107431 It's not as bad as the movie, trust me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:40:06 2014 No.5107552 >>5107427 much, much more than just drugs btw. accent might be tricky at first, and be sure to get a list of chapter narrator s before hand

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