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Jan 01, 2002 20:04

"It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does it so--I don't know--not wrong, or even mean, or stupid neccessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and--sad making. And the worst part of it is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much as everyone else, only in a different way. " - Franny, from Franny ( Read more... )

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the_nephilim January 2 2002, 05:30:57 UTC

That book rocked. Salinger rocks. You read the nine stories too?

a_weakling January 2 2002, 07:04:51 UTC

nah, i've only read franny and zooey and the catcher in the rye.

Re: the_nephilim January 2 2002, 07:54:44 UTC

ahhhhh... I used to be obsessed with Salinger. And Kesey. Kesey just died this year tho.
Any of the Beat writer's were awesome, like Ginsberg and Kerouac. You ever read Kerouac's "On The Road"? If not, I highly recommend it. A book that changed the face of 20th Century man.

a_weakling January 2 2002, 17:01:15 UTC

That's funny because I just checked it out from the library and it's next on my list to read after I finish franny and zooey, which i'm reading for the second time.

Re: the_nephilim January 2 2002, 17:05:48 UTC

Hehe, cool man. On The Road is essential. It inspired the whole "Beat" generation. The Beats rocked.
Read "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" too, by Kesey, another essential.

a_weakling January 2 2002, 17:07:20 UTC

The movie of that book was filmed in my town, haha. At our local looney bin.

Re: the_nephilim January 2 2002, 17:11:57 UTC

REALLY?!?!?! That's SO stinkin' cool man. Have you been there? I'd totally get my picture taken there. The movie rocked. The book was sweet too.
My friend Julie lent me a rad book called "The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry", it's got tonnes of Beat stuff in it. Lot's o' Kesey, Kerouac etc. There's some weird stuff by James Dean, and even Tupac and crap. It's got everyone. Patti Smith to old blues dudes.

Check ya later.

a_weakling January 2 2002, 17:13:52 UTC

haha i've been to the outside, never inside. we drove around the parking lot and went nuts onetime because it was dark and we couldnt find our way out of the parking lot.. haha..

yeah i've heard of that book, i've seen it at the library. i'll probably check it out someday just for a while.

Re: the_nephilim January 3 2002, 05:52:01 UTC

Cool man.

sneezer January 3 2002, 12:36:03 UTC

what are these BEAT books or whatever you speak of? like rap beats?

Re: the_nephilim January 3 2002, 12:40:05 UTC

The Beat generation were a bunch of dudes in the 50s, poets, writers, artists etc. who lived in New York. Guys like Kerouac and Ginsberg. They just up and left, travelled by any means possible to San Francisco and hung out.
"On The Road" is classic Beat literature. One of the main characters is based on Neil Cassady, who was famous for driving Ken Kesey's bus, "Furthur" from California to the world's fair in New York and back. All of the early "Merry Pranksters" were spawns of the Beats, and the hippies were spawned from the Pranksters.
The Grateful Dead is a band that was influenced by the Beats too.

the_nephilim September 24 2003, 08:38:28 UTC

lmao.

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