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>reading nonfiction book
>high concept premise expanded upon over a couple hundred pages
>feels like you learn several new things each chapter
>mixture of trivia, cultural history and criticism
>author reads like a friend expounding a thesis over a beer at a pub corner table
>turn a new page, glance ahead and see the author using cultural touchstones like American Beauty or Fight Club as examples to illustrate argument
>slip into maximum comfy mode
Books for this feel alongside pic related?

>> No.19647580
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>>19647559
unironically Mark Fisher's work. Even if you disagree with him, he's a great read. Also rip

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So, someone was trying to have a thread about Towards a New Socialism. Here seems like a sage enough thread to start that back up if you like.

>> No.19647681

>>19647559
Nassim Taleb, with the caveat he is the self-indulgent friend that talks about himself too much

Marshall McLuhan, with the caveat that your friend is only slightly more comprehensible than James Joyce

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>>19647559

>> No.19648582

>>19647681
imbecile