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Anonymous Sat Feb 4 11:41:15 2012 No.2379114 [Reply] [Original]

Anyone know any books about hobos/hitchhikers? Basically On the Road but with more poverty and misery.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 11:42:15 2012 No.2379116 Walden and Dickens, kinda.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 11:43:15 2012 No.2379120 Hunger by Knut Hamsun

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 11:48:16 2012 No.2379129 Autobiography of a Super Tramp - WH Davis Down and Out in Paris and London - Orwell Walk on the Wild Side/Somebody in Boots - Nelson Algren

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 12:04:15 2012 No.2379166 What is that pic from?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 12:08:15 2012 No.2379173 hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. less poverty and misery but you'll love it anyways. you're welcome. and only the first two books in the series are worth a fuck.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 12:23:15 2012 No.2379191 >>2379166 Here, apparently: http://www.stripes.com/blogs/archive-photo-of-the-day/archive-photo-of-the-day-1.9717/d-day-40th-ann iversary-spectator-1984-1.166896

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 12:31:16 2012 No.2379207 File: 39 KB, 400x264, lit_short_bus.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2379116 >>2379173 /lit/ really is retarded.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 12:59:15 2012 No.2379255 >>2376149

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 03:59:21 2012 No.2381396 Bump.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 04:17:24 2012 No.2381415 steinbeck - grapes of wrath

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 04:23:24 2012 No.2381417 Down and Out in Paris and London

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 04:23:24 2012 No.2381418 Evasion is a great novel about a dumpster diving vegan trying to survive, it's really quite wonderful.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 04:38:24 2012 No.2381431 So there has never been, or is very little, good literature about tragic homelesness and poverty? Time for me to spend time living on the streets in research.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Feb 5 04:45:24 2012 No.2381438 File: 24 KB, 257x400, How the Other Half Lives - Riis.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2381431 So you're blind I see.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 04:57:24 2012 No.2381454 Knut Hamson takes poverty, misery and destitution and pushes it past the limits. Past Dostoy, Past Orwell. Read Hunger by Knut Hamson. It's a disturbing novel.