Looking for novels along the lines of On the Road and Naked Lunch...

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Any suggestions?

― Christian Bollows, Monday, 7 February 2005 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

they're so similar...

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Monday, 7 February 2005 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you mean, you want a recommendation of something that makes you look a bit "edgy" amongst the rest of your schoolmates, or can you elaborate a bit?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 7 February 2005 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

uh, anything by bukowski? some henry miller perhaps?

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 7 February 2005 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Miller's kinda better than Kerouac at similar things. Start at the top with Plexus/Sexus/Nexus.

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Monday, 7 February 2005 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

kerouac is a hack.

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 7 February 2005 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Last Exit To Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr. If Kerouac never left home.
City of Night - John Rechy. If Kerouac was a gay hustler.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Monday, 7 February 2005 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

seek out The Herbert Huncke Reader.

― shookout (shookout), Monday, 7 February 2005 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

how old are you? 13?

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 7 February 2005 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

H. Miller's essay, "The Time of The Assassins".

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo and Yellow Back Radio Broke Down
Julio Cortazar, Hopscotch
Amos Tutuola, The Palm-Wine Drinkard

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

L. Durrell's "The Black Book".

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

You guys are mean. But otm.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Richard Brautigan's Willard & His Bowling Trophies, if it's San Fran weirdo counterculturisms y're after, or Richard Meltzer's The Night (Alone) if it's spontaneous prosology y'seek.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Capote on Kerouac: "That's not writing, that's typewriting."

― andy --, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree with many suggestions made so far. Also try

Burroughs--Cities of the Red Night
Hemingway--To Have and Have Not
Sorrentino--Mulligan Stew
Acker--In Memorium: To Identity
Pynchon--Gravity's Rainbow
Brautigan--Trout Fishing in America
McCarthy--Suttree
Barthelme--The Dead Father
Barth--The Floating Opera
Kerouac--The Dharma Bums
Clowes--Eight Ball

― ......., Tuesday, 8 February 2005 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Truman Capote on Gore Vidal "Slluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurpppppp"

― queen Ginny up, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

that truman capote on kerouac quote is fast becoming my LEAST favorite critical comment of all time. smug southern fucker.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm really surprised no one has mentioned Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"--it combines Kerouac's road trip with Burrough's drug fueled paranoid delusions. It's also the most entertaining read of the three, and arguably the best written.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Richard Farina - Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me. I discovered this around the same time I read On The Road and it probably impressed me more at the time -- funnier, more Mad Magazine surrealistic loopiness. But I was in junior high then, too.

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

and by the way, how do you make a f*&#ing tilde?

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Isherwood's Goodbye To Berlin is like On The Road or Naked Lunch, but good.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)

NO HATING OF THE WSB

― Un investigador del siglo XXI (AaronHz), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 06:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Hunter Thompson is a shoo-in, if you're looking for an ego-driven demagogue who writes with his dick in his hand (see also: Nick Tosches's In The Hand of Dante).
That's not a knock against HST, in fact it's sort of off-base, since most of his writing is almost asexual. In an angry-eunuch sort of way.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 07:21 (twenty-one years ago)

search: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov and Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand Celine.

also, I'll recommend Berlin Noir by Phillip Kerr to anyone who will listen, it's a trilogy of great detective novels set before and after WW2 in Berlin and Vienna. Perhaps not edgy enough.

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole as well. Bukowski is good. Ham on Rye and Post Office are great. Anthony Burgess as well, my favorite of his being The Wanting Seed.

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 07:30 (twenty-one years ago)

A Confederacy of Dunces has to be the stupidest book I ever tried to read. I gave up after a hundred pages.

― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

(Hopscotch?)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

jose canseco's juiced

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

The Master and Margarita seconded, esp. b/c it's in currently being eyed for development as a feature film w. Bjork.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Bulgakov is one of my favorite writers but I cannot see the similarity to Kerouac or Burroughs, frankly, besides the carbon-based life forms producing written works of fiction obviousness.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

no similarity, but any chance I get to recommend that book I will do it!

(Bjork?)

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Isherwood's Goodbye To Berlin is like On The Road or Naked Lunch, but good.
-- Remy (jcoomb...), February 8th, 2005.

likewise 'cabaret' is *really* a bit like 'easy rider'. as it goes 'on the road' isn't much like 'naked lunch', but if you want similar to the latter will self's 'my idea of fun' is passable.

― Miles Finch, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Are there any of this mob left alive after this?

― Dadrockismus (Dada), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti?

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Gary Snyder.

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pretty sure Gary Snyder is still kicking. But the New York contingent of Huncke, Burroughs, Ginsburg, Kerouac, Corso, and Carr, are all gone gone gone.

xxpost

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread really takes me back to high school. In a good way.

Also, Hermann Hesse:
Peter Camanzind
Narcissus and Goldmund
Demian
Steppenwolf
Siddhartha

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

stay here with me

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Jim Dodge - Stone Junction

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

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