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What is the most American book?

>> No.4428901

define American as an adjective that can be modified with a superlative 'most' and an object to mean something more than simply written by an American

>> No.4428909

The Great Gatsby

>> No.4428910

>>4428901
I was hoping that each reply would do with their suggestions.

>> No.4428912

Huckleberry Finn

>> No.4428914

>>4428889
Atlas shrugged.

>> No.4428915

>>4428910
*would do that

>> No.4428920

>>4428889
U.S.A. (the trilogy) by John Dos Passos.

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>>4428901

>> No.4428930

>>4428920
The true American novel, if you can include all three.

>> No.4428969

>>4428922
aspieism > boring amerifat myth making

>> No.4428996

>>4428910
>confusing a demonstration and an illustration
this is why i can't take anyone's opinion on /lit/ seriously

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>>4428889
Like everyone else I'll assume you mean United States of America.
Common Sense
Leaves of Grass
Moby Dick
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
The Great Gatsby
OIL!
The Grapes of Wrath
It Can't Happen Here
Invisible Man
The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
And something by Vidal. All I've read is set in late antiquities, and I left Hemingway out for not being set in America...

>> No.4429942

>>4428969
I bet you're French

>> No.4429947

Updike's Rabbit novels

Augie March

>> No.4429950

>>4429835
Are you the one who recommended me Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?

>> No.4429957

>>4429835
Like everyone else I'll assume you mean United States of America.

Why would you even bother saying that

>> No.4429975

>>4429957
A lot of Europeans like to whine about how "America" means North and South America. I'm not sure why, since nobody in South America gives a huge, fat fuck. It's not like Canadians or Brazilians call themselves Americans.

Europe is the only place in the world where, when you say you're American, people will then ask, "Which country?"

It's some sort of silly semantic game they like to play.

>> No.4430006

>>4429950
Maybe. I need to read some of my copy this year.

>>4429957
Why do we type anything. q;/

>>4429975
>since nobody in South America gives a huge, fat fuck
I actually know someone from SA who does. It is a little silly, but then so is our country's name.

>> No.4430035

The corrections - j franzen

>> No.4430054

>>4430006
>I need to read some of my copy this year.

It's actually very easy to read and not at all as dry as I expected.

>> No.4430364

>>4430054
You're telling me you don't like going in dry?

>> No.4430630

>>4429975
not really. It's as retarded as Americans who call Chinese people Asians and all South Asians Indians.

>> No.4430661

>>4430630
Are Chinese people not Asians?

>> No.4430697

>>4430630
It's obvious that the Americans mean "United States of...". When someone asks an Canadian where he is from does he say "America"? When someone asks an American his nationality should he say "United States of American"?

>> No.4430702

>>4428969
Why so bitter?

>> No.4430705

>>4430661
no, as Americans aren't just USAians

>> No.4430710

>>4430702
bitter of what?

>> No.4430713

>>4430697
I usually say "I'm from the US."

>> No.4430717

Kingdom of Fear by Hunter Thompson

>> No.4430720

leaves of grass definitely up there

>> No.4430788

>>4429975
what if there was a new country in europe called "the united states of europe" and they called themselves european? wouldn't that be fucking retarded? should we stop calling germans, frenchs, etc. europeans?

>> No.4430849

>>4430713
And that's okay, we get it and nobody's going to make a huge deal about it.
But it's still wrong.. Mexico is the US too (United Mexican States) by its full name in Spanish

>> No.4430877

>>4430630
well what are we then? Unitedstatians?

>> No.4430909

honestly if you get upset about americans calling themselves americans you are most likely a pedantic baby who is just looking for an argument about semantics. yes: it is confusing and wrong. nobody cares, the name is here and its not going anywhere.

>> No.4431111

>>4430877

(I'm not >>4430630 )

"U.S. Americans" is okay for everyone in my opinion.

That's also how we call you, formally, in Germany;

informally, it is simply "Americans" here -- when it's obvious that you refer to people, "Americans" will never be misunderstood;

though in a geographic context (I will fly to America soon), it is not clear and you would say (I will fly to the United States).