what is your favourite book on the beat generation?

Question

ive read "On the Road", and i planning on learning as much as i can on the beats. ive already got "The Dharma Bums" and "Visions of Cody", but i have yet to read them. im currently reading The Electric KoolAid Acid Test which is cool as hell.

Answer 1

Jack Kerouac is a good place to start. One of my personal favorites is William S Burroughs “Junky”. Kerouac, Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg are the beats holy trinity.



Mrhaggard

Answer 2

Make sure you read Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who is still living, and Allen Ginsburg. Ferlinghetti's "I Am Waiting" is a phenomenal (pun intended) surreal look at the Beat Generation. Coney Island of the Mind is the complete volume. Also try and visit F's Northern Lights bookstore in San Fran. It's worth a trip if you are in the area. Howl is a good collection of poems by Ginsburg. Also poetry by Kenneth Rexroth is excellent. William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch is a recommended read although it never fails to leave the reader with a queasy sensation. Ken Kesey's books are good, especially One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion. His association with Timothy Leary makes for interesting reading also. Richard Brautigan's books are also excellent. I recommend Trout Fishing in America. LeRoi Jones wrote some great plays that are worth reading along with his poetry which celebrates his race, back when it was ostensibly a greater curse to be black. My favorite Jack Kerouac book was The Dharma Bums, mostly because of Neal Cassady (The First Third), although Big Sur, which he co-wrote, is excellent and perhaps his best in the sense that it is well edited.

Answer 3

Burrough's Junky, Ginsberg's epic poem Howl, Kerouac On the Road, Desolation Point, Dharma Bums.

Answer 4

the holy goof