/lit/ - Literature

>>22602973
The Very Hungry Caterpillar

>>22602973
It's all the same with you.

Confederacy of Dunces

>Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one, who is in violent revolt against the entire modern age, lying in his flannel nightshirt in a back bedroom on Constantinople Street in New Orleans, who between gigantic seizures of flatulence and eructations is filling dozens of Big Chief tablets with invective.His mother thinks he needs to go to work. He does, in a succession of jobs. Each job rapidly escalates into a lunatic adventure, a full-blown disaster; yet each has, like Don Quixote's, its own eerie logic.His girlfriend, Myrna Minkoff of the Bronx, thinks he needs sex.Ignatius is an intellectual, ideologue, deadbeat, goof-off, glutton, who should repel the reader with his gargantuan bloats, his thunderous contempt, and one-man war against everybody: Freud, homosexuals, heterosexuals, Protestants, and the assorted excesses of modern times.A tragicomedy, set in New Orleans.

>>22602973
Brave New World, White Noise, Infinite Jest
(note that intellectually it should be easy to insulate yourself from any cultural surrounding if you are not a brainlet. Read the transcendentalists)

Just go outside you fucking retard

>>22602973
American Psycho
Fight Club

both are great and capture halves of the zeitgeist emerging in the 80s and dying in the 90s, ignore contrarians.

>>22602973
>consumer
As opposed to what? Fasting and meditating all day? I need to consume things and I'm glad there is abundance. "Consuming" is the least of my problems.

>>22603071
>a society in which the buying and selling of goods and services is the most important social and economic activity.
That is to say: the highest good in a consumer society is to buy things and show them off. Such a society is necessarily plagued by spiritual destitution and alienation. Consumer society does not just mean 'having lots of things to buy' or 'being rich'.

>>22603094
Doesn't sound like anywhere I've seen.
Do you really think "buying things and showing them off" is the "most important social activity."
Most people I know don't particularly make any effort to buy or show things off.

>>22603015
And? Everything outside costs money.

>>22602973
Mein Kampf
This Time the World
The Fame of a Good Man's Deeds

>>22603107
You shed the materialist mindset when you realize going outside != spending money. However materialist brain rot is not an excuse for your utter lack of self awareness

>>22602973
Humans have always needed to consume things. Not my fault you’re poor and can’t enjoy the finer things in life and develop taste

>>22603107
go to the library

>>22602991
>His girlfriend
Stopped reading your post and blacklisted that book

>>22603015
>go outside so you can be attacked by niggers bro

>>22603137
Literal cope.
>>22603178
>go the library so you can see a homeless man jerk off to porn on the computers

>>22603207
Ignatius is a very smart young man with a master's degree. The girls can't help themselves I'm afraid.

>>22603207
trust me, Ignatius doesn't have a gf