Beatnik


On the Road
The Dharma Bums
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Big Sur
Howl and Other Poems
Junky
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
Desolation Angels
The Subterraneans
Howl
Queer
Ham on Rye
On the Road: The Original Scroll
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
A Coney Island of the Mind
On the Road by Jack KerouacHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergThe Dharma Bums by Jack KerouacNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsJunky by William S. Burroughs
Beat Lit
235 books — 182 voters

Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the F... by Charles BukowskiNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsThe Cat Inside by William S. BurroughsA Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence FerlinghettiOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
Best Books by Bukowski and the Beats
104 books — 4 voters

Hunter S. Thompson
I have tonight begun reading a stupid, shitty book by Kerouac called Big Sur, and I would give a ball to wake up tomorrow on some empty ridge with a herd of beatniks grazing in the clearing about 200 yards below the house. And then to squat with the big boomer and feel it on my shoulder with the smell of grease and powder and, later, a little blood. ...more
Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

All brace to taste life’s bitter curse— A second birth, but in reverse— A return to the cold, hard womb of earth.
Rick Klaus Theis, Lorca's Grave

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Novel, Coffee, Hipsters, Doo-wop, Rockabilly, Beatniks, Jazz, Classical or Stories with a Vintage feel The title says it all lol but really, don't you sometimes like to escape from our harsh reality …more
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