Lucas B. 1,459 Posted January 30, 2016 Created this post to talk about beat generation books, writers and etc. Actually i'm reading On The Road and i'm loving it. I have plans on reading Owl from Allen Ginsberg and other Kerouac books. After reading OTR (it's the first beat book i'm ever reading) I will watch the film. What books you guys recomend, why do you like the beat generation? Let's talk about it . Did someone saw Kill Your Darlings? What you guys think about it? I saw it a few weeks ago and it was because of it I started reading On The Road, I was fascinated with Kerouac and Ginsberg world and I felt the need to read their books. They seemed, I don't know, so real. They kinda made a revolution at that time and I found it amazing. ''I get down to beat poetry and my jazz collection's rare, I can play most anything, i'm a brooklyn baby, i'm a brooklyn baby...'' 5 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Intriguing Penguin 867 Posted January 30, 2016 I'm a pretty big fan of the Beat Generation. I have all of the poems published by Allen Ginsberg in one book. I've read Howl, a few times in my life. On the Road, is one of my favorite books ever. It's such a great book. The movie I stopped watching 1/3 way through because it just didn't hold my attention like the book did, and Kristen Stewart is ew. I've read The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac and I have, Town and City by him also. I've also read William S. Burrough's The Naked Lunch and Queer. Burrough's is probably the most unique member and writer of the Beat Generation overall. Kill Your Darlings, was a good movie but some say it was historically inaccurate I'm not sure. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
longtimeman 8,916 Posted January 30, 2016 Here's some music accompaniment to this post: Try to find the documentary 'Gang of Souls' (there are a couple of clips from it on Youtube) - it is a series of interviews with original Beats, and those who they influenced. Even better than reading their work is listening to their recordings of the original authors reading them. Here's a nice jazzy one: And one more for the moment - Allen Ginsberg 'America' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJq2DUyzSdg 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bummersummer 2,218 Posted January 30, 2016 cliché or not, On The Road will always be one of my favorite books. also, The Subterraneans is an extremely good & underrated (partly autobiographical) novel. and October in the Railroad Earth read by Kerouac himself & set to a jazz music background is one of my favorite things of all time. sharing this fab Beat gen spotify playlist i recently discovered - https://player.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/31wIPggkodosrdDkEdv8Md and lastly, oblig Lana x Beats connection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTgo1yEo1Ys 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SuperMegaStan 9,985 Posted January 30, 2016 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nightmare Boy Online 236 Posted February 5, 2016 Created this post to talk about beat generation books, writers and etc. Actually i'm reading On The Road and i'm loving it. I have plans on reading Owl from Allen Ginsberg and other Kerouac books. After reading OTR (it's the first beat book i'm ever reading) I will watch the film. What books you guys recomend, why do you like the beat generation? Let's talk about it . Did someone saw Kill Your Darlings? What you guys think about it? I saw it a few weeks ago and it was because of it I started reading On The Road, I was fascinated with Kerouac and Ginsberg world and I felt the need to read their books. They seemed, I don't know, so real. They kinda made a revolution at that time and I found it amazing. ''I get down to beat poetry and my jazz collection's rare, I can play most anything, i'm a brooklyn baby, i'm a brooklyn baby...'' I read Howl a few times, i have a book called Howl and other Poems so i read some of them. I have On the Road but haven't read it yet. As for the movies i watched On the road and i really liked it. I am not a big fan o Kristen's acting skills but i liked her in this movie. Also saw Kill your darlings and liked it and Howl starring James Franco. There is an amazing animation of the poem featured in the movie someone posted it, i quoted the post. Also i posted a poem today on my blog called Howl which was inspired by Giensberg's. Check it out here 2 Quote www.insidemyintrovertmind.blogspot.gr Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
evilentity 13,343 Posted February 17, 2016 Allen Ginsberg wrote this poem about Burlington, Vermont under socialist mayor Bernie Sanders in 1986: Socialist snow on the streets Socialist talk in the Maverick bookstore Socialist kids sucking socialist lollipops Socialist poetry in socialist mouths —aren’t the birds frozen socialists? Aren’t the snowclouds blocking the airfield Social Democratic Appearances? Isn’t the socialist sky owned by the socialist sun? Earth itself socialist, forests, rivers, lakes furry mountains, socialist salt in oceans? Isn’t this poem socialist? It doesn’t belong to me anymore. 0 Quote Stalking you has sorta become like my occupation. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
