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What are some forgotten books that were once touted as being the future of literature/supposed modern classics? Like, meme-lit from 10-20 years ago
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>>8238464
AmeRican psycho
infinite jest
Brighton rock
bright lights big city
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John Green doesn't write books, he writes toilet paper for the use of deathly cholera patients in their final moments. As for psuedo lit, I got weirdly into Anne Rice when I was about 13, I can't really explain why.
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>>8238464
>I got weirdly into Anne Rice when I was about 13, I can't really explain why.

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>>8238464
A Confederacy of Dunces
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>>8238464
House of Leaves
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Modern Chivalry
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>>8238500
this is one of the best books ever written
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>>8238528
A Confederacy of Dunces is the story of the first pre-internet troll.
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>>8238464
Infinite Jest, unquestionably.
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>>8239124
K but wrong
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one dimensional man
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>>8238503
Absolutely
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>>8238464
That book about Dominicans
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>>8241052
While we're on trendy leftist shit, also The Greening of America.

Basically, all American nonfiction between 1955 and 1975.
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>>8241352
In the Time of the Butterflies? It's still kinda relevant because its the only thing Dominicans have to be proud of artistically ;_;
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Nearly 30 years but Pavic's Khazar dictionary.
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>>8238541
You do know dunces is from the aeneid don't you?
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>>8240223
this for sure
should have been released in the Bush era
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