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Pumpkin Escobar
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Jack Keroauc
#11962337 - 02/04/10 02:53 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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what other books would you keroauc fans recommend, (travel and the american dreams) something beautiful with a heart of gold but still with a healthy supply of kicks and good times
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Dharma Bums, On The Road, Big Sur.... Visions of Cody is supposed to be good, but I have yet to read it.
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Re: Jack Keroauc [Re: Sunny]
#11962613 - 02/04/10 03:37 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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i've read on the road and dharma bums, i haven't read big sur, i've read part of subterraneans its pretty good, i probably should have worded my question better, books by authors other than keroauc that you keroauc fans would recommend, i just love that american dream that he portrays
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a little different themes and twists but: electric kool-aid acid test.
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aghorrorag
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and hell's angels by hunter s. thompson
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Sunny
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Chuck Bukowski is another Beat generation writer, who had similar experiences as Kerouac, though he was a much more isolated individual.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is another good one, along with Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck.
I'm also not sure quite how you mean the "American Dream". His books are about the rejection of the American lifestyle, and clearly the death of the American Dream ideal.
His ideas were not, and are still not considered socially acceptable by the majority of the populace.
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Re: Jack Kerouac [Re: Sunny]
#11963168 - 02/04/10 05:05 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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Try these by Kerouac:
Desolation Angels
Tristessa
And you cant go wrong with any of what Bukowski has written.
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Re: Jack Kerouac [Re: Mikael]
#11964338 - 02/04/10 08:01 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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I really enjoyed Big Sur, I suggest you go with that one next.
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desolation angels is a great read, though it's pretty lengthy compared to any of his other works.
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sounds like you could use a reading list
are you experienced by William Sutcliffe
The THOUGHT GANG by Tibor Fischer
Throwim Way Leg By TIM FLANNERY
Voyage to the End of the Room: A Novel by Tibor Fischer
The Collector Collector: by Tibor Fischer
Cosmic Banditos by A. C. Weisbecker
Tapping the Source by Kem Nunn
The Dogs of Winter by Kem Nunn
Tijuana Straits: A Novel by Kem Nunn
Caught Inside by Daniel Duane
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
Lush Life: A Novel by Richard Price
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
American Gods: A Novel by Neil Gaiman
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania by Andy Behrman
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greate... by Mark Bowden
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Ma... by Chuck Klosterman
Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff
Leaving Dirty Jersey: A Crystal Meth Memoir by James Salant
In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road by Allan Weisbecker
The Western Limit of the World: by David Masiel
2182 kHz by David Masiel
Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
Out Stealing Horses: by Per Petterson
Rum Diaries by Hunter S. Thompson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Catfish and Mandala
The Sacred Willow
The Girl in the Picture
marching powder 4,000 Days: My Life and Survival in a Bangkok Prison by Warren Fellows
Vietnam in the Absence of War
Laos
The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison by Warren Fellows
Mai Pen Rai
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Fruit Palace: An Odyssey Through Colombia's Cocaine Underworld by Charles Nicholl
Among the Thugs by Bill Buford
Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China Paul Theroux
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
The Gringo Trail by Mark Mann
Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade by Robert Sabbag
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester-
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System by Roberto Saviano
If I Die in a Combat Zone : Box Me Up and Ship... by Tim O'Brien
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack C... by Gary Webb
A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo
Kindness of Strangers,The, Penniless Across America - Mike McIntyre
Necroscope: The Lost Years by Brian Lumley
Fishing Up North: Stories of Luck and Loss in Alaskan Waters by Bradford Matsen
Perdido Street Station
by China Miéville
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
Close Quarters: A Novel by Larry Heinemann
Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Ch... by Ben Mezrich
Watership Down by Richard Adams.
Savages by Joe Kane
Smokescreen: A True Adventure by Robert Sabbag
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
Deliverance by James Dickey
Highliners: The Classic Novel about the Commercial Fishermen of Alaska by William McCloskey
LIGHTNING ON THE SUN by ROBERT BINGHAM
Alaska Blues: A Season of Fishing the Inside Passage
Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
The 13th Valley by John M. Del Vecchio
Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Min... by Daniel Tammet
The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn
Outerbridge Reach by Robert Stone
Platform by Michel Houellebecq
Short Timers by Gustav Hasford
Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-America... by Mark Bowden
Snow Crash-Neal Stephenson
Lost on Planet China: One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation by J. Maarten Troost
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Off the Rails in Phnom Penh
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
The Scribe by David Young.
is The Lotus Kingdom by Alastair Shearer
365 Days by Ronald J. Glasser
Michowel Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca edited by Ralph Metzner Cant Find My Way Home: America In the Great Stoned Age You Must Set Forth At Dawn by Wole Soyinka Ketamine: Dreams and Realities Blackfoot physics: a journey into the native american universe by f. david peat
The Naked and the Dead: by Norman Mailer
Breaking Open the Head. Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake Wizard of the Upper Amazon: The Story of Manuel Cordova-Rios Back From the Void by Zoe 7.
On Point by Roger Hayes
A Star called Henry by Roddy Doyle.
God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre Richard Grant
American Nomads: Travels with Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders
Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg - Carolyn Cassady The Plays of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov (Paul Schmidt trans.)
Under the Volcano, Malcom Lowry The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Leaving Las Vegas, John O'Brien
The Razor's Edge, Somerset Maughham Cosmos, Carl Sagan A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac Scratching the Beat Surface by Michael McClure Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs The Informers by Bret Easton-Ellis
Little, Big by John Crowley
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany All We Need of Hell by Harry Crews
Last Resort by Scott Sommer
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac Strange Wine by Harlan Ellison
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac Apocalypse by D.H. Lawrence Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Road to Los Angeles by John Fante Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski Sense of Beauty by George Santayana
Zany and great The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
The First Third by Neal Cassady Oh the man behind the curtain....how interesting Kerouac: A Biography by Ann Charters Off the Road by Carolyn Cassady
Cages by Dave McKean The safety of illusions, the golden cage of lost hopes. McKean is the Stanley Kubrick of his medium. Dr.Sax by Jack Kerouac Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard The Nature of Time by G.J. Whitrow
El Aleph by Jorge Louis Borges "I can´t see Borges anywhere!" (Donald Cammell) Dreams and Dead Ends by Jack Shadoian The American Gangster/Crime genre from Shadoian´s POV: Poetic, essential, passionate.
Panegyric by Guy Debord The society of the spectacle couldn't make it here! Hammond Guthrie: The I-Ching (original translation) The Tibetan Book of the Dead (original translation) Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Scripture of the Golden Eternity by Jack Kerouac Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by Buckminster Fuller The Rosy Crucifixion = Sexus, Plexus and Nexus by Henry Miller
The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot The Elements of Style by Richard Strunk
Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac
Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll
Ninety-two in the Shade by Thomas Mc Guane
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
The Arabian Nightmare by Robert Irwin
Film As A Subversive Art by Amos Vogel
Franz Kafka by Max Brod
The Air Conditioned Nighmare by Henry Miller
Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley by Lawrence Sutin
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingwaay
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac
Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
It Catches My Heart In Its Hands by Charles Bukowski
The Outsider by Albert Camus
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
DMT the spirit molecule - Strassman
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
in search of the pink headed duck
pacos story
Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon
Infected: A Novel by Scott Sigler
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
the deerslayer
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Wolf's Hour by Robert R. McCammon
Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Eternity Road by Jack Mcdevitt
the turner diaries
in trouble again
lunar park
swan song
American Gods: A Novel by Neil Gaiman
Tristessa by Jack Kerouac
Rule of the Bone
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Terror: A Novel by Dan Simmons
The Psychedelic Prayers
Marabou Stork Nightmares Junky by William S. Burroughs
Factotum by Charles Bukowski
Down & Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Really the Blues by Mezz Mezzrow
The Gambler / Bobok / A Nasty Story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Rope Burns by F.X. Toole
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Doghouse Flowers by Steve Earle
A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K Dick.
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japa... by Haruki Murakami
Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter by Shoko Tendo
The Psychedelic Prayers by Tim Leary.
Burning Chrome by William Gibson.
Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami.
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller
Tropic Of Capricorn by Henry Miller The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet
Death On The Installment Plan by Celine
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
Last Exit To Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Journey to the End of the Night by Celine
The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham
On Writing by Stephen King
The Drunken Tourist by Hadrian Santana
THE TECHNO PAGAN OCTOPUS MESSIAH''By Ian Winn
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
Maggie Cassady by Jack Kerouac
Demian by Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Working on the Edge: Surviving In the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's HighSeas by Spike Walker
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes L... by Dan Millman
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
The Beach by Alex Garland
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Satori in Paris is pretty good, it was one of his last novels and chronicles his search for heritage in France.
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If it hasn't been said already, The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S. Thompson.
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Re: Jack Keroauc [Re: Abuse]
#12015230 - 02/12/10 11:37 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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I've gotta agree on the Bukowski tip, Ham & Rye being my favorite of his books.
Also, love Richard Brautigan.
Of course the easy thing would be to just track down anything from Kerouac's friends in all the books (Ginsburg, Cassady, Burrough, etc.)
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sinola
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i live in the town jack grew up. his grave is across my street. im glad people read his stuff.
also id recomend anything my willam s burroughs- junkie is my favorite
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Chespirito
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Visions of Gerard is Kerouac's best book
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quinn
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Anyone else think he sucks?
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sinola
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Re: Jack Keroauc [Re: quinn]
#12659921 - 05/31/10 08:50 AM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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have you ever read any of his books?
or anything from the beatnics?
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Re: Jack Keroauc [Re: sinola]
#12660136 - 05/31/10 10:03 AM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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yeh otherwise i wouldn't have an opinion. I don't think he is worthy of his acclaim.
I do like hunter tho.
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