Squalor Books
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Severe Domestic Squalor (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as squalor)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2012
Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as squalor)
avg rating 3.56 — 134,749 ratings — published 2015
The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as squalor)
avg rating 3.90 — 4,010 ratings — published 2012
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as squalor)
avg rating 4.18 — 351,505 ratings — published 1995
History of Andersonville Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as squalor)
avg rating 3.74 — 66 ratings — published 1968
“It's a cultural matter. They take pride in their unpride. It reflects their lack of status. Bottom... of the bottom of the human world, and they know it, and they don't like it, and the squalor is like a badge of nonstatus for them. Saying, you want us to be filth, we'll live in filth too. Reveling in it. Wallowing in it. If we're not people, we don't have to be tidy....”
― Tower of Glass
― Tower of Glass
“Human beings in there took turns standing or lying down. The legs of those who stood were like fence posts driven into a warm, squirming, farting, sighing earth. The queer earth was a mosaic of sleepers who nestled like spoons.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
