/lit/ - Literature

>>20837505
everything by Theodore Dalrymple

>>20837505
crap towns : the 50 worst places to live in the UK

>>20837505
my dairy desu

>>20837505
Is Britain really that bad nowadays?

Man, that's awesome!
Hope you all die

>>20837505
>books

This is one instance where I would recommend watching some brit TV shows which capture and allow you to see contemporary Britain so much better than any book could portray through text.

Watch Peepshow.

>>20837505
When I was homeless and living on the streets in Paris I got taken in by a group of Afghans. One guy got really nervous because for some reason he thought I was an undercover cop, he was quizzing me on all sorts of stuff and shaking, poor chap. The rest of them took me in with the most perfect Pashtun hospitality, and we sat together and ate chicken bryiani.

After that I spent some time in the south squatting in an abandoned mansion and hanging around soup kitchens. Ended up buying cigarettes from the mob and reselling them to tourists at a slight markup.

Stop being so xenophobic OP, and try to get away from the bobos. Anglo countries are meloncholy crab buckets, but in the Paki ghettos you can still find some dredges of SOVL.

>>20837505
https://youtu.be/KX1CSSZa1v0
Death to perfidious albion. You sowed the wind now you reap the whirlwind.

Martin Amis would like to think he does it but he is lamer than Will Self. Go with reality television.

Just come to Wolverhampton.
>anal sex
What?

>>20837505
Get rid of the rape and it sounds like America :|
grim

>>20837505
stop this cringe romanticization of lame bullshit, stop listening to burial

i know pakis rape a lot but there's no way they're as violent as american blacks right

>>20837505
Write it yourself.

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I think they're more RAPINE without being more violent, if that makes sense.

>>20838837
>Is Britain really that bad nowadays?
It was always bad. "Swinging London" was like three blocks at most.

>>20839267
I like Amis but he should stick to what he knows (i.e. writing about Martin Amis). When he tries to do the whole "street"/"thug" thing (which he always insists on)... oh me oh my.

>>20837505

>didn't mention NHS once
ngmi

>>20837505
There are no rape gangs. British teenage girls are just so batshit crazy that they are unironically attracted to hideous paki kebabshop owners. Many of them dont see themselves as victims and live with their supposed rapists.

>>20840455
True blackpill.

>>20837524
Yes.

Welfare destroyed the country.

ali smith is good and writes about contemporary britain, maybe not in quite as cynical a way as you'd like but she does cover a lot of issues

>>20837505
In a more general western sense, Houellebecq

>>20837505
You should write it anon, sounds insightful.

I want to write my magnum opus on the travesty of modern Britain. I have tons of ideas. I'd be the West Midlands answer to Houllebecq. But I'm a straight, white, mid-30s male. As if it would ever see the light of day.

>>20841250
>But I'm a straight, white, mid-30s male. As if it would ever see the light of day
Great excuse for not writing. Dont worry, no publisher would pass up the next houellebecq

>>20838855
I'd say the TV programme that best captures life in contemporary Britain is "Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!"

>>20837505
>Who is writing books about these issues desu? Doesn't have to be British btw. Just about the west in general since these are common themes.
Harassment Architecture, seriously. A third of the book is good, especially during the first half, the rest is mediocre and/or bad. It has no coherent plot and is instead a mixture of many short stories that have little in common but disdain for life in the contemporary west. Anyway it's short and can be amusing, try it. I haven't read the newer book, it seemed as if he hadn't improved at all according to the reviews here. A shame, he has some talent.
Houellebecq is worth checking out as well.

>>20841249
>You should write it anon, sounds insightful.
if this sounds interesting or insightful to you, you should stop reading.

>>20838871
>hangs out with minorities
>is subhuman trash
>asks people to stop being xenophobic
Lmao you should just shut up if you actually care for your cause, you defending anything makes it automatically seem worse.

>>20837505
So you want books on the effects of 40 years of Neoliberalism then?

have you tried reading the daily mail?

>>20842174
based!

Money by Amis is a good overview of thaterite britain. The corrosive effect of cheap money, neoliberalism and radical individualism on the fabric of uk society. Ballrad does this pretty well too but Amis is a much better character writer.
Money is funny af, especially if you picture the protagonist being played by MAtt Berry.
No idea about contemporary stuff. If there was a book about the gritty reality of contemporary britian I don't think I'd read it. Its depressing enough living it.

Still, at least we're not America

>>20842541

Brumfag here. That's them alright. Dirty stinking fucking bastards they are

>>20837505
>I'm talking about life in the deanoboxes, the terraces, the Paki ghettos, the post-industrial wastelands. I'm talking about the rape gangs, the male suicide epidemic, Amazon fulfillment wageslavery. I want to read about the zero contract shift workers, the obsessive NEET loners stuck in their Mum's spare room. Post-Covid hangovers and vaccine brainwashing. Mass surveillance. Holier-than-thou BBC pontification. Travelling to work on an over-crowded bus, standing about in the job centre. The clash of working class pleb culture and the privately educated upper class. I'm talking rainy walks with the dog. I need roundabouts, industrial estates, anal sex, cornershops, the exodus to London, Spice addicts, humanities graduates working in bars, the home ownership crisis, identity politics, ethnomasochism, historical revisionism, Primark, retail work, modern feminism, high rents, boomer resentment, ethnic replacement, isolation, social media, hookup culture, brand identity.
I forgot to tell you op that what you wrote here is beautiful.
Man I really wish I was a few years later to see where the West is heading so that I wouldn't burn out trying to have some bullshit career.

>>20837524
Nice.

>>20837505
But we get lots of ethnic food! Worth it!

>>20842615
I always pictured Roger Allam myself but Berry also works

>>20837505
>I need [...] anal sex
don't we all

>>20842174
indeed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPAcjqK8H0s

was just walking around london today, primarily soho and surrounding neighbourhoods
incredibly beautiful and vibrant city, perhaps the most cultural place on earth. it just feels so alive

>>20837505
funny that in spite of all that, britain still has the best universities in the world

>>20843909
good rage

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>>>/int/
You spastic mutts think because you spend too much time on /brit/ threads and believe the memes you think you know what the modern UK is like? You are retarded.

>>20844179
Muhammad, chill. Oh, btw, you let in more than one million immigrants last year. Seethe and head-in-the-sand pill.

>>20844179
Why don't you tell us what Britain is actually like, anon.

>>20844179
Kill yourself you mass replying faggot

For me, it's FIFA with the lads.

>>20839530
xer name is Kae now, bigot

>>20837505
Jerusalem by Alan Moore

>>20837505
I wish I could type out more elaborate posts like yours.

Listen to Europe is lost by Kate tempest

>>20844179
>mass reply
Kill yourself

>>20837505
Easy Meat will give you the grimmest accounts of the rape gangs, more disturbing since we know it still happens on a national scale.