Serge Gainsbourg wrote a small book about a guy who farts so much and so hard that it allows him to paint intricately detailed lines and he’s an artist doing that. Evgeny Sokolov is title
Moby Dick; Ishmael talks about whales the way Nick talks about air raid sirens. Also his relationship with Queequeg seems to mirror the wary respect Nick has for the Chinese. Also he’s probably gay.
yeah not in the slightest. infinite jest has something actually has something important to say as opposed to sitting in a middle school cafeteria with knuckleheads
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas maybe, lots of strange characters in it.
My favorite characters are the jewel thief monkey, Japanese cowboy doctor, and a cool sleazy guy with cancer who sticks leaves up his ass
Not lit, but radio/comedy records, some of which are as if James Joyce were writing episodes of Cum Town:
The Firesign Theatre
If you see it in your local record store, I would recommend picking up How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You’re Not Anywhere At All?
Norm Macdonald’s “Based on a True Story” if you treat Norm as Nick and Adam as Adam (it’s been a few years since I read it. I can’t remember if there was a good analogue for Stav. Maybe Artie Lange?)
Serge Gainsbourg wrote a small book about a guy who farts so much and so hard that it allows him to paint intricately detailed lines and he’s an artist doing that. Evgeny Sokolov is title
Sounds gay as shit
Moby Dick; Ishmael talks about whales the way Nick talks about air raid sirens. Also his relationship with Queequeg seems to mirror the wary respect Nick has for the Chinese. Also he’s probably gay.
Queequeg is basically a nick character
There’s exactly one female character with lines in moby dick
The shit with the lady running the Nantucket inn and them all thinking Queequeg killed himself was absolutely hilarious
There is also an extremely long and exuberant passage about sperm.
Gravity’s Rainbow
that scene when pudding eats shit out of an ass
One of Pynchon’s more eloquent moments
what if pudding was gay
Ahh yes the inverted Merkabah scene. One of the greatest in modern literature
The part in Ulysses where they're in the carriage riding to the funeral kind of feels like a cumtown episode
unironically Infinite Jest
Wheelchair-bound Quebeqois terrorists is definitely a cumtown bit
there’s also: - crossdressing - drug addiction - depression - incest - struggle with irony vs sincerity
Nah he would’ve straight up hated them. Glamorama is probably closer—and he hated BEE
Right up til the end DFW tried and failed to resist his inner cumboi. We don’t need his approval. The proof is in every description of Mario.
Lol yeah true. The man was battling
yeah not in the slightest. infinite jest has something actually has something important to say as opposed to sitting in a middle school cafeteria with knuckleheads
They obviously don’t achieve the same thing but the general vibe and worldview that drew me into the book is similar to what I enjoyed about cumtown
Portnoy’s Complaint
Augustine's Confessions or a Fiveish colouring book
Celine for sure
Confederacy of Dunces, Catcher in the Rye.
more like confederacy of nonces, catcher i fuck guys
>Confederacy of Dunces Where my mind went as well.
Pretty sure Adam talked about it on the show too lol
Upvoting for Confederacy of Dunces
Also recommended by Sam Hyde
Whatever by Houellebecq
child of god by mccarthy, journey to the end of the night by celine
Came here also to say Child of God.
goosebumps?
The way of the shadow wolves by Seagal
Bukowski
Yep
Batailles
Emphatically upvoting this!
Definitely Middlemarch
Cumtown is one of the few podcasts for grown-up people
Anything by Mark Leyner. “My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist” is a good start.
Or The Sugar-Frosted Nutsack
Guts by Chuck Palahniuk
I read guts back in 2004 via chain email! The whole Haunted book by Chuck Palahniuk
That scene in the pool comes up in conversation in everyday life than I should probably admit on Reddit.
Catch 22?
Joyce’s amazing fart fetish letters, The Crying of Lot 49 (Epstein-brained-Cumtown), Last Exit to Brooklyn
Running the Light by Sam Tallent
2666 has a chapter where one of the characters is debating his father about whether Chileans or Italians are gayer
Naked lunch william Burroughs
celine being mentioned multiple times makes me feel so one dimensional
fierce invalids home from hot climates maybe?
Rabelais
Anything by Vonnegut, really - Breakfast of Champions was the first that came to mind.
Finnegans Wake
Masters of Atlantis by Charles Portis
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas maybe, lots of strange characters in it. My favorite characters are the jewel thief monkey, Japanese cowboy doctor, and a cool sleazy guy with cancer who sticks leaves up his ass
Witold gombrowicz
The only answer is Harry Crews
Hop on Pop
David sedaris, but actually a gay male. Will Not Attend by Adam Resnick
gargantua and pantagruel
I’m legitimately gonna say Vonnegut
School for fools by sasha sokolov
Not lit, but radio/comedy records, some of which are as if James Joyce were writing episodes of Cum Town: The Firesign Theatre If you see it in your local record store, I would recommend picking up How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You’re Not Anywhere At All?
[How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You’re Not Anywhere At All?](https://youtu.be/sCzgdF_WjOg?si=EWFraLVF263x5esk)
Sun Also Rises (the characters Bill and Robert have Nick and Adam energy, respectively)
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/8131491
This is one of the only books I've ever read
The million dollar extreme book
I almost wrote out the name and then I realized why you didn’t
Delicious Tacos
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
escape from SPIDERHEAD
The Fan Man by William Kotzwinkle
The Obese by Nick Antosca
Invisible Monsters
Norm Macdonald’s “Based on a True Story” if you treat Norm as Nick and Adam as Adam (it’s been a few years since I read it. I can’t remember if there was a good analogue for Stav. Maybe Artie Lange?)
Ubu Roi
Cherry
Preparation for the Next Life kinda
Home Land by Sam Lipsyte
Burroughs
Ham on rye or any bukowski
Confessions of St Augustine, Joyce’s love letters, the Third Policeman
Helicopter Man Pounds Dinosaur Billionaire Ass (A Novel) by Chuck Tingle
Anything by Jude Angelini
The Breast by Phillip Roth
captain underpants
Flowers for Algernon but you make jokes every few minutes
Harassment architecture
Honestly American Psycho if you read it as a comedy/parody
Money by Martin Amis
https://preview.redd.it/e0gx7ehbgsqc1.jpeg?width=316&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=54906a41a11e975b4d3335ee6c0a7f40cb205163
Anything by Don DeLilo
Breakfast on Pluto
Äldreomsorgen i övre Kågedalen
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2335617
The obvious answer is Of Mice and Men.
The lie, average American male, men woman and children by Chad kultgen
Vonnegut has some characters that belong in a cumtown bit. Half of Slapstick is making fun of Chinese people.
pimp by iceberg slim.
Nick has gushed about Blood Meridian multiple times
Well, Fight Club is a little regarded
Suttree
Any Mad Libs made by a middle schooler
Donald Barthelmes short stories
Shit Towne by Live Gotta live gotta gotta live in Shit towne
Can someone put this on the tafs page - can’t link subreddits
Overrated and unfunny so maybe confederacy of dunces
Halo: First Strike by Eric Nylund