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I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time

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Yossarrian22 ◴[26 Apr 25 01:49 UTC] No.43800205[source]▶
The problem is those towns weren’t crap within living memory when the books were written. Now anyone who remembers otherwise is close to dead
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1. jhbadger ◴[26 Apr 25 02:20 UTC] No.43800359[source]▶
Some of them maybe have gentrified (not to ignore that this in itself isn't 100% a good thing). Others are if anything worse than when he wrote the book.