/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19676175]

Dead by his 53rd birthday from an exploding liver due to years of heavy drinking. Where did it go so wrong with him? And how could you write about the "beat" when you're as handsome as this? Seems pretty onions..

[࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !KNDYYIIins No.19676547]

>>19676175
>Dead by his 53rd birthday from an exploding liver due to years of heavy drinking. Where did it go so wrong with him?

ALCOHOLISM FROM TRYING TO COPE WITH LIVING AMONGST HERETICS.


>And how could you write about the "beat" when you're as handsome as this?

?


>Seems pretty onions..

WHAT DOES?

[Anonymous No.19676559]

>>19676175
Americans just can't handle the drink. Weak constitution frauds

[Anonymous No.19676563]

>>19676175
He was actually 47 years old.
Also, look at him on Firing Line in 1969.

[Anonymous No.19676626]

>>19676559
Unlike Chad Welshman Dylan Thomas who died after breaking the record for number of whiskeys drank in an hour at a pub in New York.

[Anonymous No.19676662]

Booze is a killer.
He should have tried heroin and lived a long and productive life

[Anonymous No.19676668]

>>19676626
>who died after breaking the record for number of whiskeys drank in an hour

[Anonymous No.19677758]

>>19676175
Pathetic

[Anonymous No.19677786]

>>19676668
Yeh, he died in one go like a man, rather than drawing it out over 30 years.

[Anonymous No.19677829]

>>19677786
Thomas was also an alcoholic dragging it out for near 20+ years beforehand.

[Anonymous No.19677837]

>>19677829
Well no shit, anyone who breaks a drinking record is obviously an alcoholic.

[Anonymous No.19677836]

His books are complete fucking shit and I read almost every single one AMA.

[Anonymous No.19677850]

>>19676662
He was a heroin addict and an alcoholic.

[Anonymous No.19677864]

He was relentlessly handsome. I want to kiss him endlessly.

[Anonymous No.19677873]

>>19677837
Also just in off the no shit wire: then he didn't die in one go, he dragged it out like every other whisky-puking alkie.

[Anonymous No.19677881]

>>19676175
>exploding liver
jesus christ that sounds painful as fuck

[Anonymous No.19677948]

>>19676175
Alcoholism kills buddy. Beautiful ti Jean

[Anonymous No.19677955]

>>19677836
T. Stephen king fan

[Anonymous No.19677974]

>>19677955
I've never read a single page of a Stephen King book, but I admired Kerouac in my early 20s and I will forever be indebted to him in my own writing and will always love him for other reasons. That being said his books are pretty blatantly complete shit.

[Anonymous No.19677991]

>>19677974
You’re just dumb

[Anonymous No.19677999]

>>19677974
>That being said his books are pretty blatantly complete shit.

Ok, explain

[Anonymous No.19678073]

>>19677999
I mean come on, it's just him and his drunk degenerate friends writing about his wacky adventures in a psuedo-stream-of-conciousness while on drugs or drunk, and not bothering to edit it. It's cool and fun, but really only a novelty for his time, plus nobody bothered to read his 2 books after Big Sur because he was irrelevant. He was basically a boy-toy in his day, not serious literature. On the Road is very uneven too, parts of it are in normal prose, others in stream-of-conciousness and it's way too long. The Mexican orgy scene is noticeably weak. He's best when he does drunken extended prose-poems like Subterraneans or Tristessa. His best novel is Big Sur. That was the only one he wrote after On the Road was published (aside from Dharma Bums like a mont after On the Road was published, finishing Desolationg Angels, and those late 2 when he was irrelevant that everybody hates), as he wrote all of his other novels the years in between On the Road being published.

[Anonymous No.19678151]

>>19678073
Yeah as I expected you’re a midwit

[Anonymous No.19678158]

>>19676175
>exploding liver due to years of heavy drinking
based

[Anonymous No.19678298]

>>19678151
So why is he good?

[Anonymous No.19679082]

>>19678158
It's bullshit. He was murdered by niggers.

[Anonymous No.19679103]

>>19677836

I only read The Road. Man is that an awful book. It sounds like it was written by a lame, unpopular 13 year old. It doesn't even have interesting prose or rhythm or anything you'd expect from a "beat generation" writer, it's just bland and boring and meandering. Fuck him and his rotten liver. Goddamn...

[Anonymous No.19679187]

As a teenager I thought beat culture was cool

Can´t remember anything from Big Sur
From Burroghs I can´t even remember the title of the book I read.

But all the Steinbeck books and short stories are imprinted in my mind that I read as a kid.

[Anonymous No.19679937]

I like the bit in Dharma Bums where he goes to Mexico with his mom.

[Anonymous No.19680214]

>>19679937
Me too because the town in Mexico that visits is where I live lol, never saw this place mentioned in any book by a major author (or any kind of author really).

[Anonymous No.19681355]

>>19678298
he's the american thomas hardy

[Anonymous No.19681364]

>>19677881
technically, he died from internal bleeding from esophageal varices, then I think a heart-attack.

[Anonymous No.19681373]

>>19680214
I always thought this is cool when it happens. I had to stop reading for like 10 mins when Nabokov mentioned an address close to my house

[Anonymous No.19681414]

>>19680214
>>19681373
lucky. Best I have is Norm MacDonald mentioning feeling like death while in a hotel in my depressing city at the start of his "memoir."

[Anonymous No.19681425]

>>19681414
>author mentions your exact address

[Anonymous No.19681438]

>>19681355
That's Henry James.

[Anonymous No.19682776]

>>19676175