Any good novels that most accurately describe life in the 50s?

Any good novels that most accurately describe life in the 50s?

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, though it's a play.

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    You will never have an ethnostate.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why do you hate White people?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Because they capitalise the word white

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Black people do the same thing.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          no we don't

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Kek, there is no 'white community' breathing down my neck perpetually questioning me about my 'whiteness,' whether I'm white enough, whether or not I've adequately given back to 'my community' (which doesn't exist per se outside a few small, rightly marginalized sects of timeless losers).
          As a general rule 'white people' treat one another like shit because they can; because they're 'not allowed' to treat black or brown people this way they often enough become awkward, and this awkwardness is almost always meanly interpreted as 'racism'. This isn't changing anytime soon.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            you sound like a happy camper

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Irony aside, I do ok. Beyond the media hoopla I think America's (still) a great place to be. More genuinely kind people of all natures and persuasions than anywhere else in the world. Happy 4th

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Not that anon but you seem like a nice guy. Now recommend me a FRICKING book god damnit!

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Sure. Jacqueline Susann's The Valley of the Dolls

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I'm jealous. We all are. Ok? Are you happy?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Because they capitalise the word white

      You will commit suicide in two weeks.

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Breakfast at Tiffany’s
    The Catcher in the Rye

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      He rapes his sister, Phoebe.

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Jim Thompson's novels

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Naked Lunch

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Anything Raymond Carver

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    richard yates

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >good novels
    >that accurately describe life
    NGMI. This is not what good novels do.

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Jack Kerouac's The Town and the City. His first novel, before he started doing beatnik stylistic stuff, he was just trying to write the Great American Novel. It's good, really good, never gets mentioned for reasons unknown to me.

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The Martian Chronicles

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >I raped my daughter
    >I'm not allowed to go to college
    >I'm addicted to painkillers
    >I beat my son
    >I'm gay

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Cope

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      This all applies to me and I'm not from the 50s

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Sounds like your life sucks

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Accurate. I'm surprised some mouth breathers on this site for fucjing commercials, the lowest form of propaganda, when describing the 50s or any era of modern America.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Without the projection.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Assuming the Dad is approx 35 in this pic from 1955, wouldn't he be the one more likely to have killed fitty men?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Fitty men killer is also in his 30's. He had a rough life.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Nah Dad joined the Army like a pussy instead of serving the Marines like Grandpa. So Dad only killed one person, and that was a friendly fire accident. He has yet to ever forgive himself.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >be american
            >education consists purely of shooting up your school
            >go to war
            >the inevitable happens

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Daily reminder that Conservatism caused the loss of this world. If you think that Traditionalism/Conservatism/Republicanism will bring it back you are sadly part of the problem. There is but one new way of thinking for the West that will return a semblance of what we want.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Which way, IQfy?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        All of this describes me except there's a generation between me and the grandfather who killed 50 nips in WW2.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Without the projection.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        So true!!

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Rabbit, Run

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Actually begins and ends on the 4th of July, too. Also, The Wapshot Scandal, e-girlta, and Peyton Place come to mind. And why not On the Road?

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    How the frick would I know what life was like in the fifties?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Guess that's one of the points of reading books by author's who lived through them or wrote about them. But you're right-- how would anyone here be able to discern the accurate from the inadequate?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      You have to be 70 to post here.

  15. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why do people idolize the fifties
    It ain't coming back
    Sounds like those teens who always say they were born in le wrong generation

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Who idolizes the '50's? The authors who write about them certainly do not.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        The racists, and the extremists of both left and right wings do.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          If so, than in an age of Globalization and the coming onset of mass frugality (by fiat) it seems like an enormous waste of time. 'Waste' being a key word here as well..

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Extreme leftists don't idolize (you probably mean idealize) the 50s.
          Anyways the 50s were objectively much better than today in most ways, so that's a pretty obvious answer to your question.

  16. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Manchurian Candidate.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      unfortunately true. its ironically a psyop itself. anti-mccarthyism, mkultra revelation of the method.

  17. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    according to my mother, "The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike" by Philip K Dick

  18. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The Racist Rape Years: Why the 1950s Were Akshually Bad

    by Shlomo Noseberg, Ph.D, Weinstein Professor of Whiteness Studies, Columbia University

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Jews have had a complete grip on burgerland since at least the start of the 20th century. Don‘t be naive.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        No. israelites were still excluded from elite institutions in the early 20th century and were a very small amount of the population. Look how little WW2 America did for European israelites.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          They‘ve always been a small part of the population. That‘s how they operate. Might not want to mention a whole ass war fought for them to shine a light on the imbecility of this point.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Why didn't that "whole ass war" do anything to help the israelites in Europe instead of denying them refuge in America?
            >They‘ve always been a small part of the population
            Before WW2 they were really, really small

  19. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson
    >Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
    >Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Nice. Add to these Rabbit Run by John Updike.

  20. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The way it was or the way they aspired to be?

  21. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Just read the popular literature from the era

  22. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Disappointed because no-one has mentioned John Cheever yet

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I have anon-- x2

      Actually begins and ends on the 4th of July, too. Also, The Wapshot Scandal, e-girlta, and Peyton Place come to mind. And why not On the Road?

      Now I'M disappointed....

  23. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I love how chuds keep saying women were pure back then, and somehow it's the evil society who corrupted them LOL

    The truth is that women are innately prostitutes. The only difference between back then and now is that women say in public how much they love being prostitutes.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Chuds don't say that, dumb frick. What we say is more akin to your 'truth', that women were more restrained by societal pressures back then and that was a good thing.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      No the difference is back then women were kept from their base impulses and today are encouraged in them.

  24. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Suttree

  25. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    You'll have to read a lot of different novels to understand the 50s. I don't want to give babby's first intro to subjective experience, so suffice it to say that no one novel will entirely encapsulate any generation.

  26. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    being a military guy is worth it when actual militiary guys are in power, ie in feudalism. Being a military guy in a democracy means you are a civil servant's b***h LOL

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