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

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395 points url | 2 comments | 26 Apr 25 00:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.661s | source
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Tourniquet ◴[26 Apr 25 01:57 UTC] No.43800245[source]▶
My home town featured (33rd!). We considered it vindication!
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1. Kon-Peki ◴[26 Apr 25 03:47 UTC] No.43800767[source]▶
Vindication like what Ohioans would have felt when Charles Dickens visited America and said that St. Louis was a nice enough place, but “not likely ever to vie, in point of elegance or beauty, with Cincinnati”?
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2. stuaxo ◴[26 Apr 25 07:21 UTC] No.43801586[source]▶
Lots of people in the UK grow up in crap towns, and having a book validate that feeling can be good.