Thread 24673210

Books about working-class people?

>>24673210 (OP)
There's Corndog Zen.

>>24673210 (OP)
Settlers by J. Sakai

>>24673210 (OP)
There's a lot.

charles bukowski

>>24673239
Fuck off shill

>>24673287
I plan to read that

I am a working class man in Alabama and I don't like being analyzed in contempt like an anthropological object. If you want to understand how working class people think then read the Scripture.

I also fly Old Glory on the front of my house, not the Stars and Bars, even though my ancestors fought for the South. Am also a Muslim, which is growing down here.

>>24673210 (OP)
My people

S O V L

>>24673210 (OP)
Try this

>>24673210 (OP)
Books about raping op to death?

>>24673210 (OP)
Bloy, Blood of the Poor

>doesn't know the difference between white trash and working class
Anyways, picrel.

Work and Days by Hesiod
Piers the Ploughman by Langland
Pickwick Papers by Dickens
Post Office by Bukowski

>>24673662
I'm going to second this. It's probably the est thing published in Australia in the last fifty years

>>24673662
Doesn't this guy post here

>>24673210 (OP)
My family looks like this. I wish I could write well enough to write a story that would allow someone to feel what it's like to live in that world. It's a lot of little things.. like considering margarine to be butter, ignoring child molestation and spending what little money you have on a 1982 Sears Gamefisher with a 6HP Evinrude to go fishing when you need several thousand dollars of dental work.

>>24674693
My family is like this too and this book resonated with me. You should check it out

>>24673443
There has never been a southern Islamist, and there never will be. Nice try, Ahmed.

>>24673380
Honestly this. People like Dickens romanticize them for sympathy if you want to actually see how fucked up the proles are Buk shows it.

>>24674676
Doubt it. He's really famous.

>>24674693
We are going to deal with all that rural inbreeding by mixing them with Indians. It will turn out alright.

>>24673210 (OP)

>>24673210 (OP)

>actually
The Jungle - Uptown Sinclair

Anyone read the JD Vance book?

Germinal by Zola

I grew up in a trailer park without electricity in the 90s. Both my parents didn't finish elementary school. My dad can't read, he can recognize singular words but not read full sentences. My mom can read but has 0 comprehension. Since around 10 years old my parents made me read all letters to them. Arrest warrants, foreclosure notices etc.

It's bizarre being 12 years old and being more educated, more inherently intelligent and more emotionally mature than your entire family.

I experienced so much insane shit that people wouldn't believe I can't even mention them all in one post. Going hungry because parents prioritized getting cigarettes with the last bit of money. Drug dealing for supplemental income, fleecing welfare programs for maximum benefits.

Before entering middle school I had already had a pitbull permanently injure my face by almost biting my cheek off. I got stabbed 8 times in my right leg and stomach. I got shot at (missed) had my front teeth punched out and my leg broken in 12 places.

I was used to hide guns and drugs when police came to investigate because I looked young and innocent when my brother shot and killed the neighbor. I have seen dozens of people die in front of me, most killed by my extended family.

Worst I saw was a local methhead beating the head of a female cop into a bloody pulp with a piece of pipe. She survived for 10 minutes and her face got more and more brutalized every hit. Eye popped out and she just didn't lose consciousness no matter what. I still vividly remember her wheeze as her jaw was completely crushed and she struggled to continue breathing.

I'm not in contact with my family anymore and I hate them. I entered academia in my late 20s and no one can guess my history or would ever believe me. Reading in the public library that was 20 minutes of hiking from the trailer spot is what saved me. It was the only thing I had and thus focused on reading especially math and later physics texts as it was an escape from my depressive reality.

My only regret is my younger sister that I almost raised alone since my parents were neglectful, she got a drug dealer boyfriend and never escaped that life, she was almost like my daughter in spite of only 9 years age difference. She got a record and no skills so I don't see a way out for her. She also isn't intelligent. I have no idea how it was even possible for me to be born in that family and come out okay.

>>24674667
It's probably the only thing published in Australia in the last 50 years.

>>24677129

fascinating story anon, but you forgot your book recommendation about that lifestyle.

also, why not have your sister come live with you, why abandon her to that fate?

The Vance book is a retarded. He goes on about his shitty life, and how government programs helped him get an education and give him some self respect, then the conclusion of the book is poor people shouldn’t rely on government programs and should help themselves.
It’s like he wrote the book, then remembered he wanted to go into politics later so added in something to cover himself

>>24677129
>beating the head of a female cop into a bloody pulp with a piece of pipe
strange choice to veer off into erotica in the middle of the story but i'll take it

>>24677144
Sorry man it turned into a trauma dump. There have been no good books from the white American extreme poverty perspective. I don't think the political climate would allow such publishing today. The book I read that is closest to that feeling is mama black widow but it's from a black perspective. But honestly race is barely noticeable at the extreme poverty side of things. I'm not a racist precisely because I saw how extreme poverty affects people and seen too many white skinned niggers (including my entire extended family) to attribute behavior to race.

I absolutely hate how white poverty is completely dismissed nowadays. For example to enter university I had to go a whole extra length because of my "privilege". Can't believe the absolute mental illness people have to imply white trailer park kids have any sort of privilege over inner city black people.

>>24677182
sounds like you need to write that book.

And Identity politics ignoring class as it's just weaponized resentment is finally being called out.

>>24677163
Vance in general strikes me as retarded so there might be a possibility he actually wrote the book himself at least.

what do you do when you realize that the proles are just as bad as the burgerwasis

>>24677129
>>24677182
>I don't think the political climate would allow such publishing today.
Nigga what?

>>24677163
>The Vance book is a retarded.
>>24677194
>Vance in general strikes me as retarded

Bruh, didn't know it was like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW_3aaoSOYg

>>24677163
its almost as if he sold out and is one of peter thiels many bottom slaves

>>24673210 (OP)
Nomadland (nonfic but narrative)
Demon Copperhead (fiction, "modernized" rewrite of Dickens' David Copperfield)
Bullshit Jobs (nonfic)
>>24677197
your fault for falling for the Noble Savage myth w.r.t. the Proles. people are just people, Anon.

>>24677144
He didn’t abandon her, she chose it. At this point his sister will fuck him over big time.

>>24677400
I think the noble savage myth doesn't really have anything to do with proles and actually is about other races.

>>24677197
>>24677400
Think you're actually just wrong about that too. The upper and lower classes are pretty comparable, pretty close. It's the middle class specifically that (Welles once said) are the enemy of society.

In the last century in England, there was a big thing about 'U and non-U' (U standing for upper class), which found that there were many similarities in the use of language between the upper and lower class, whereas the middle class tended to use 'fancier', French words for things, in attempts to make themselves sound more refined ('posher than posh'), while the upper classes stick to the same plain and traditional words that the working classes also use, as, confident in the security of their social position, they have no need to seek to display refinement.

The upper and lower classes are both rooted in tradition, they both name their children Jack and Charlotte, it's the middle that feel the need to give them names like Percy and Felicity.

>>24677129
This is the real Hillbilly Elegy right here

>>24677182
>white trailer park kids have any sort of privilege over inner city black people.
don't be naive. you can pass as white

>>24677597
the principle is applicable to any group a person perceives as Lesser.
rural trailer park white people are the closest thing modern America has to a "feral" people.