Any Recomendations?

Discussion in 'Beat and Hippie Books' started by goingtocalifornia, Sep 13, 2009.

  1. goingtocalifornia

    goingtocalifornia Banned Underage!

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    Just got finished with a Morrison bio and am looking for something to read.
    Bios are great so is fiction/non fiction

    I'm open to anything :)
     
  2. -beatnick

    -beatnick Senior Member

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    Jack Kerouac - On The Road
    Tom Wolfe - The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
    Allen Ginsberg - Howl
    William S Burroughs - Junky
    Hunter S Thompson - Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
    Ken Kesey - One Flew Over A Cuckoo's Nest
     
  3. goingtocalifornia

    goingtocalifornia Banned Underage!

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    I've read the top three... I'll see if I can find the others tomorrow
    Thanks
     
  4. Forrest Armstrong

    Forrest Armstrong Member

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    Another book that's really great, by a writer I think a lot of people on this forum must appreciate, is Richard Brautigan's In Watermelon Sugar. It's so beautiful and lean and pure. Brautigan got really famous for his Trout Fishing in America, a kinda champion counter-cultural novel in the sixties... that book's also definitely worth reading.

    Starfish Poetry (it's not just poetry) is a really cool online journal. I've got a story in there called "Plant the Seed" about a man who wants to manipulate his DNA to include the chemical makeup of psilocybin mushrooms, so he can be in a permanent trip. You can check that out for free at: http://www.starfishpoetry.net/StarfishSpring2008.pdf

    And it's always great to stay juiced on the classics. Like, nothing really beats Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground.
     
  5. goingtocalifornia

    goingtocalifornia Banned Underage!

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    thanks man, i'm gonna check those out
     
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    king dork by frank portman
    the way the wind blew by ron jacobs
    the strawberry statement: notes of a college revolutionary by james simon kunen
    off the road: my years with cassady, kerouac, and ginsberg by carolyn cassady,
    the beat generation: the tumultuous '50's movement and its impact on today by bruce cook
     

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