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I want to thank you guys for recommending me this book. It is easily one of the greatest books I've ever read. Everything, in my opinion, just works. I would appreciate it if you /lit/erary minds could recommend a book like it, something with similar writing or story

>> No.2384809

shameless self-bump

>> No.2384819

naked lunch, lonesome traveller, big sur,

>> No.2384831
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2384831

celine - journey to the end of the night

was a huge influence on kerouac and is one of the best and funniest novels ever though it's very nihilistic and cynical
it's 'on the road' without proto-hippie pretense, just a freewheeling fucked up picaresque and celine's dark sense of humor and powers of observation are unrivaled

>> No.2384882

>>2384831
>>2384819
Thanks guys. I also want to check out Dharma Bums. Is that any good?

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>>2384882
It is good, but it helps if you read up on Buddhism first....other wise, you may not understand it completely

>> No.2385627

>I want to thank you guys for recommending me this book. It is easily one of the greatest books I've ever read.

You are almost certainly between 17-19 years old. Perhaps younger.

Not meant to be insulting, just a fact. I've never met anyone over 25, and very few people over 20, who think On The Road is the best book ever.

I used to think so too when I was that age.

>> No.2385645

>>2384819

I'd get rid of Naked Lunch as a recommendation. It's just mindless nonsense written by a junkie.

>> No.2385679

>>2385620
Dharma Bums isn't very accurate in its depiction of Buddhism.

>> No.2385684

>>2385645
Aren't they all bro?
I mean, come on. Seriously.

>> No.2385702

I'm reading it now and don't see the appeal behind it. I read Big Sur before and loved it though. Easily one of my favourites.

>> No.2385734

Read some Herman Hesse. I'd reccomend starting with Siddhartha.

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>> No.2385905

-One flew over the cuckoos nest by Ken Kesey
-Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by HST
-Chronicles volume 1 by Bob Dylan
-Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
-True Hallucinations by Terence Mckenna
-Junky by William S. Burroughs
-Nog by Rudolph Wurlitzer
-Flats by Rudolph Wurlitzer
-Slow Fade by Rudolph Wurlitzer
- The autobiography of a super tramp by W.H. Davies
-A walk on the wild side by Nelson Algren
-Down and out in Paris and London by George Orwell

>> No.2385918

I really liked Visions of Gerard by Kerouac. It's a novella about the death of his brother. I cried like a bitch reading that book. Dharma Bums is kinda blah. I've read way too much Kerouac. It's sorta tainted my view of him b/c a lot of his work is, honestly, kinda shit

>> No.2385921

>>2384882
Always thought that one was a little overrated. My Kerouac hot picks:

Visions of Cody
Big Sur
Desolation Angels
Doctor Sax

>> No.2385923

Ugh. I fuckin' hate Kerouac.

Check out the Celine, though.

>> No.2385925

>>2385627
Pynchon circa 1984 still thought it was one of the finest American novels ever written.

>> No.2385954

>>2385921
Desolation Angels is great. It was the second JK book I read after OtR. I was like 17-18 when I read it and that shit blew my mind. I liked the stream of consciousness opening to the book that he wrote up on the top of the mountain.

>> No.2385969

>>2385923
Agreed. Hate Kerouac books so hard, they're so boring and senseless. Celine is great, though a bit depressing.

>> No.2385982

>>2385969
>>2385923
look out, we've got a couple of rebels
>hipsters, and not the angel-headed type

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Awesome adventures.

>> No.2386061

>>2385982
kerouac sucks, man. he's like the worst beat writer.

>> No.2386081

>>2386061
Have your read works by every beat writer?

It always seems strange to me when people say stuff like Blah Blah is the best book ever written!. How do they know that? they haven't read everything, there's likely something a lot better. Blah blah is the best american novel written in the last 60 years. You have read every novel in the alst 60 years to know this?

>> No.2386086

Kerouac is quite possibly the worst writer born out of the cesspool that is 20th Century American literature. I say quite possibly because he's just barely beaten out by old man Bukowski.

>> No.2386094

>>2386081
Holy shit you are a huge faggot

>> No.2386096

Kerouac sucks. Every time I mention the fact that On the Road and The Dharma Bums are offensive pieces of writing, their fans just come out with more recommendations, like "you gotta read Big Sur". No. Fuck him. I wouldn't be wasting my time with his bullshit if it weren't for a generation completely fucking up and forgetting what the fuck literature is supposed to look like.

>> No.2386110

>>2386086
>how to be a hipster 101
you're so edgy, I bet you knew about Bukowski when he was a dirty young man

>> No.2386112

Read Electric Kool Aid Acid Test.

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>>2386110

How is disliking two of the canonical figures of Hipsteria "hipster"?

>> No.2386125

>cesspool that is 20th Century American literature
>a generation completely fucking up and forgetting what the fuck literature is supposed to look like.

Whoa, bro.

>> No.2386138

>>2386125
Two different bros, brah.

>> No.2386145

>>2386086
20th century American lit is god tier; beat lit on the other hand...

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>>2386116
If you don't see it now, you'll never get it

>> No.2386178

>>2386145
>Allen Ginsberg
>Lawrence Ferlinghetti
>Gary Snyder
>Michael McClure
>Charles Olson

beat generation was rad as hell, man

>> No.2386183

>>2386162

Oh you.

You want some good grimey american lit? Read some Algren. Problem solved.

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On the Road was alright book not that great ,but not really that bad.
My problem with it was that each chapter featured him either getting drunk or him being sad which I could really careless about.
His prose are pretty weird how they flow and Dean is the biggest douche in literature.
All in all I liked the off beat prose and the descriptions of Jazz.
This book really spawned a longing to hit the road in me ,but it will probably fade away just like most of the remarkably banal parts of the book.
OP try reading Savage Detectives. It isn't exactly like On the Road , actually bares little similarity, but it is a book that is always traveling from place to place and perspective to perspective.

>> No.2386190

Reading Kerouac makes me feel like I'm reading somebody's journal...but it's a journal I do not want to be reading.

>> No.2386192

>>2385925

That's because Pynchon is a stoner and a hack and a fucking tool.

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>>2386186

Ooh, dat's gonna get sumbuddy maaaaaad

>>2386192

So dat

inb4 maaaaaaaad

>> No.2386207

>>2386186
>I could really careless

I mad

>> No.2386210

>>2386192
you shut your goddamn fool mouth

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>>2386210

>> No.2386226

I just went thorough the whole book with nothing but the most sincere and intense hatred for Moriarty/Cassidy. Fuck that guy. I don't know why anyone liked him unless they wanted to fuck him.

I'm looking at you, Kerouac.

>> No.2386232

>>2386226
also ginsberg

tbf the beat movement was at least 60% about gay fucking

>> No.2386314

>>2386232
you mean "gainsbourg"

>> No.2386345

I wanted to like OTR more, i tried reading it twice but couldn't get into it either time. I love reading about the beats and think he's got an interesting style but I just didn't really enjoy it.