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10776921 No.10776921 [Reply] [Original]

Any other books like this that just drop you into the deep end of a country's seedy underworld? Preferably third-world countries?

Fifty pages in and this book is fucking devastating.

>> No.10776956

>>10776921
Hope you're ready for the hardcore gay sex scenes.

>> No.10776963

>>10776956
Oh boy. I think by the end of this book I might need to sit down.

The part where Bam-Bam's dad has to suck a dick but still gets a bullet to the head fucked me up.

>> No.10777006

>>10776921
cormac mccarthy is good for seedy underworlds, Outer Dark is especially unsettling in my opinion. not third-world country but still.

George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London focuses a lot on homelessness and although it's not action-packed with gangsters and rape or whatever, he does explore crimes committed by the homeless just to get by, methods they have with coping/surviving, etc. Might also be something you're interested in?

Also Hubert Selby Jr.

>> No.10777025

Notes from Underground, family

>> No.10777046

>>10776921

One of the most boring books ive ever read. One of a handful of books i havent been able to finish because of its tediousness

>> No.10777057

>>10777046
What did you find boring about it? So far it has a good range of distinctive characters, good prose and it delivers on the thrills. Does it have a lot of slumps or something?

>> No.10777409

>>10776921
Los Gusanos

>> No.10777444

>>10776921

I lent this book to a friend, worst decision I ever made, never got it back. The part where one of the shooters gets stoned to death and reverts to a childlike state is a brilliant piece of literature.