Beat Lit

>>8461687
the divine comedy

candide

>>8461687
Tortilla Flat is kind of similar, about a bunch of guys who are poor, unemployed drunks who live out their lives in California. It's a great story and I loved the characters in the end even though they acted like trash to themselves and strangers at times. Kind of like real people.

You have much more patience than me if you were able to enjoy On the Road. I've never been able to enjoy any of Kerouac's writing.

>>8461702
I actually read On The Road over a year ago and remember really enjoying it, but a few months ago I tried reading Dharma Bums and just didn't take to it and put it down after a few chapters. But I just took the notion today to read something beat. I'll check out Tortilla Flat.

>>8461710

I really wanted to like Kerouac. His writing reminded me of being in the military, getting drunk and telling people to fuck off. It just doesn't hold and I get sick of reading about how he's eating pie and ice cream and magically getting money.

Some of the dialogue in Tortilla Flat is a little strange. Steinbeck was being weird and wanted it to sound like it was some Arthurian speech. As the novel goes on I thought it blended really well and was fitting with how shitty they were most of the time but managed to have some grasps at true altruism.

Some of the writers (Burroughs) of the beat generation were actually just rich kids who chose to write. It sours my stomach when I read their writing about feeling hungry or scared about money when they had a living stipend from daddy in NYC.

>>8461722
>Some of the writers (Burroughs) of the beat generation were actually just rich kids who chose to write. It sours my stomach when I read their writing about feeling hungry or scared about money when they had a living stipend from daddy in NYC.

That's kind of lame. As I say my whole knowledge of "beat" is reading On The Road and listening to Bob Dylan. Also funny that you mention the pie and ice cream, that's the one thing I always remember vividly about that book. My recollection tells me that he had a slice of apple pie with ice cream on one of his first days out at the very beginning of the book. Thanks for the recommendation.

The Beats were hacks
Still fun to read though

>>8461693
This tbqh
On The Road is just about the basics of Catholicism so you might aswell

>>8461722

>how he's eating pie and ice cream and magically getting money.

LOL I forgot about that, Kerouac had a six year old's taste in food.