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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen of /lit/.
I usually post on /mu/, however I also like to read every once in a while. I have enjoyed Jack Kerouac's On The Road a lot and I would like to ask you for some recommendations like it.
I don't know if /lit/'s general opinion on this book is negative or positive but I suppose I'll find out soon enough.

>> No.1230448

Read the Dharma Bums. On The Road with try hard Buddhism. Pretty good

>> No.1230452

Thanks for all the awesome pysch rock as well. You make /mu/ bearable

>> No.1230464
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1230464

roberto bolano the savage detectives,
roberto bolano the savage detectives,

>> No.1230465

>>1230448
>On The Road with try hard Buddhism
Sounds like exactly what I'm looking for, thanks.
>>1230452
My pleasure, it's nice to introduce people to good music.

>> No.1230476

You sound like a fine gentleman. I would recommend Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Crazy hippies, a magical bus, LSD, Allen Ginsberg reciting mantras, Neal Cassady driving like a crazy fuck, you know. Give it a try, seriously.

>> No.1230491

>>1230476
>The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Holy shit, I saw this lying at the book store the other day, wondering if I should buy it. Looks like I should have, in retrospect. Gonna buy it now for sure.

>> No.1230496

>>1230437
fuck yes. listening to Howl by Allen Ginsberg right now.

Beatnik Generation was here. Hipsters are loser.

>> No.1230504

>>1230496
Downloaded that about an hour ago, thanks for the reminder. Bebop is a good way for getting in the mood too.

>> No.1230528

>>1230504
you should read it first. it's absolutely exceptional.

>> No.1230533

>>1230528
Yep, also I don't think I can handle it right now as it's past midnight and I'm not too focused right now. The footnote is pretty interesting though (holy, holy, holy, holy, holy)

>> No.1230562

So, any other essential beat classics I have to get? Poetry is also appreciated.

>> No.1230571

Forgot to mention, I also love Jim Morrison's poetry but I can't find it anywhere, I'd love some download links (the only thing I could find was 'Los Poemas Ocultos' which also has Spanish translations)

>> No.1230650
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1230650

Check out "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey. He was buds with Jack and bridges the Beats to the Hippies

>> No.1230750

When will all of the Anons and /b/tards grow up and start writing literature? Shit will be so cash if they manage to reach the heights of bizarre and weird and fame that the Beatniks did.

>> No.1230752

>>1230750
Go on yourself, Anon

>> No.1230759

Actually, I am writing a book that is allegorical to the rise of Anon and its dispute with Scientlology- and it hasn't broken roolz 1&2 yet! Not once!

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1230933

>>1230562
William Blake's poetry had a huge influence on Morrison. Pic related.

As far as stuff like Keruoac goes, try Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar.

>> No.1230943

The Fall of America by Allen Ginsberg.
The Call of the Wild by Jack London.
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski.

They're all books about self-identity and breaking free from society. With the exception of Ginsberg, they all have masculine subthemes too.

>> No.1230945

>>1230943
I would add Leaves of Grass to this list, too.

>> No.1230952

>>1230650

>Ken Kesey. He was buds with Jack and

No he wasn't

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1232179

Neat, my thread is still around
>>1230933
That's pretty cool, I've liked William Blake for a while but I didn't know he influenced Morrison. Another one to add to the list then.
>>1230943
>>1230945
Also added to the list.
Looks like I've got enough reading material now to last me at least 'till the end of the year. Before I start all this I'm going to read Goncharov's 'The Frigate Pallada' though, I've had it lying around for a while now.