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16704743 No.16704743 [Reply] [Original]

What the fuck even is this book?
I've read it twice now and seen the movie a half dozen times, both sober and on LSD

None of it makes any cohesive sense. There was no point to any of it. I don't understand how this became such a classic because it really just feels like each chapter is completely disconnected from the last

>> No.16704870

>>16704743
this is like the book equivalent to the steam reviews that have 500 hours sinked into a game and then go on to warn you that it’s a waste of time

>> No.16705079

>>16704743
>degenerate hipsters trying to be deep, the book

>> No.16705089

>>16704743
It tells you what it's about on the cover.

>> No.16705091

>>16704870
lmao

OP the secret will unfold itself to you if you read it a third time

>> No.16705191

DUDE DRUGS LMAO

>> No.16705209

>>16704743
well haven't read it, but if that one popular monologue is anything of a thesis

it's supposed to capture decay and growing disillusionment with american culture
the nostalgia for youthful revolt and being a part of a cultural movement
hopefully in a self-aware cyclical capacity

>> No.16705246

You didn't figure out that they were looking for the "American Dream" and failed to find it among American corruption and perverted ideals symbolized by Las Vegas?