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Whats the best book you've read which takes place mainly

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Whats the best book you've read which takes place mainly in London?
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The Twelve Inch Problem of Jerome.
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Book of dave by will self
Some of it is set in a post apocalyptic London, but the parts set in present day London are excellent. The geography, topography, vernacular, atmosphere, culture, social history, mindset etc are all fantastically observed and written about.
London from a taxi driver's POV
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>>9269103
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My diary t.bh
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Dubliners
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>>9269103
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new grub street
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>>9269103
1001 Arabian Nights
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Mrs Dalloway
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Things Fall Apart
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Inferno
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My diary desu
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The Satanic Verses

>>9269932
This is also a good option.
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the lime twig
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The koran
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The Ballad of Peckham Rye
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>>9271664
weeeeew
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>>9269103
Definitely not mrs dalloway.

When timemachines are invented I'll pay to see virginia woolf drown herself. Stupid cunt.
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>>9271833
Litrially a dumbed down version of Ulysses, for retards.

Yet she's taught as one of the 'founders' of the modernist movement becuase of the stream of consciousness
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>>9271664
E D G Y
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>>9271664

Lol

I was in Whitechapel yesterday. Definitely Koran country.
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my book will be a classic london book once it comes out
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>>9272815
cant wait
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All of them
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>>9269103
Iain Sinclair is criminally underrated on /lit/.
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>>9272815
You can't write a London classic from a cabin in Norway, silly anon
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>>9273756
I get him confused with Peter Ackroyd.
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>>9269103
neverwhere

yeah i said it
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>>9269103
The Threepenny Novel
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The picture of Dorian Gray
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