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What are some good fictional books about drug use and bohemianism, (this can include homelessness, but I'm looking for more voluntary poverty or poverty due to addiction of either physical or mental wants)

I've read some Kerouac stuff, but I'm looking for more stuff like Irvine Welsh, (currently reading Trainspotting, hopefully I can read most of his books before year's end)

Want to mostly read these to get better at dialogue, and see what fits best with my novel

>Also, my crappy novel in fruition http://pastebin.com/iB01RESD

>> No.4277555

down and out in paris and london

>> No.4277566

>>4277555
Well damn, I didn't know Orwell wrote about shit like this; always thought it was all big picture and political corruption with him. Thanks for the rec

>> No.4277580

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick. It's mostly about drugs and paranoia.

>> No.4277594

>>4277536
Junky
A Scanner Darkly.
Less Than Zero
Basketball Diaries
The Black Cat

>> No.4278270

Algren's The Man With the Golden Arm. Algren's books are incredibly tough and lucid tO the low life in mid-20th century New York. His books are filled with junkies, corrupt cops, impotent detectives, innocents and all colored with the harsh neon lights of the big city. I think it actually inspired Kerouac and Pynchon until thy found their own voices.
Also, he basically seduced Simone de Beauvoir and made her leave old Sartre behind in Paris.

>> No.4278274

What you want is Andre Gide's Fruits of the Earth

>> No.4278428

Read junky by burroughs, exactly what you are looking for.

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>>4278428
Awesome, I need to read something by him that isn't Naked Lunch anyway
>>4278274
>>4278270
>>4277594
>>4277580
Thanks for the recs, I'm jotting these all down. The more information I got the better

>> No.4278457

I was about to recommend Junky. Naked Lunch is good as well.

>> No.4279045

Henry Miller is close to what you want, Tropic of Cancer at least.

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A Bohemian Youth by Josef Hirsal is great.

Also, anything by Jean Genet.

And most definately, anything by Charles Bukwoski.

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4280636

I find your lack of De Quincy's "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" unfathomable.