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Can We Just Talk About Jack Kerouac For a Minute?
jonny swagger:
I'm a raging Kerouac fan, actually. So mad props. Visions of Cody was both brilliant and mad. There was one page that consisted of 1 sentence. Actually, once you've read Visions of Cody, On the Road makes a considerable amount more sense: completely fills in alot of details.
PS now I don't condone illegal activity, but VoC was written while very stoned, and reads much better if you've got a little tea in you. It helps one to keep aligned with the stream of conscious nature of the book.
Actually, if anyone has some books to recommend that aren't Kerouac, but in the same spirt, (not necessarially beatnik books, but books that embrace life for all that it's worth) I'd be most appreciative.
-Jonny
--- Quote from: Crosseyedstranger ---I have read Dharma Bums, On The Road, and Visions of Cody. All were really good, although Visions was really hard to get through. Anyone wanna reccomend some others?
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Paper Beats Rock:
I just started On The Road and I'm loving it. I've got loads of work on so I'm not getting through it very quickly but I'm thinking about cutting out that whole sleeping business to read more.
As Dark Flame said Burroughs is another great beat generation writer. Maybe it's just me but I find the Keruoac's style reminiscent of Fitzgerald. People who enjoy this kind of writing would probably like Bukowski and maybe Fante as well.
Kid Modernist:
I'm reading Desolation Angels right now, after having read a majority of his work and looking forward to it. I must say I'm a little disappointed in it for some reason. Parts of it are really interesting and other parts are really dull. Oh well.
As an aside, the name of this thread really bugs me for a reason I can't quite put my finger on.
jonny swagger:
Actually, you know who Kerouac's style really reminds me of? Henry Miller, but (slightly) more grounded. But lets face it - Bukowski is excellent his own right.
Drugstory Cowboy or Naked Lunch are quintessential Burroughs.
--- Quote from: Paper Beats Rock ---I just started On The Road and I'm loving it. I've got loads of work on so I'm not getting through it very quickly but I'm thinking about cutting out that whole sleeping business to read more.
As Dark Flame said Burroughs is another great beat generation writer. Maybe it's just me but I find the Keruoac's style reminiscent of Fitzgerald. People who enjoy this kind of writing would probably like Bukowski and maybe Fante as well.
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Paper Beats Rock:
--- Quote from: jonny swagger ---Drugstory Cowboy or Naked Lunch are quintessential Burroughs.
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Drugstore cowboy wasn't by Burroughs, it was by a guy called James Fogle.
Unless you're saying that the quintessential Burroughs is his cameo as the junkie priest towards the end of the movie of Drugstore Cowboy?
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