What are some good novels to read this winter?

[xRENx]

Right now i'm reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and over the summer i read a lot of Edward Abbey books, working on getting a copy of Good News by him. Also I'm pretty into Cormac McCarthy I read Suttre over the summer and it has to be one of my favorite books. Most of the beat poet stuff i've probably read. if anyone has any good suggestions on some cool novels/westerns or know which steinbeck book is about this guy who travels around possibly hopping trains to organize hobos to go on strikes against farmers is one i've heard about but dont know the name of let me know. or just tell me one or more of your favorite books and why it was

 

[KootenayRambler]

Im sure you've already ready On The Road by Kerouac?

 

[xRENx]

yup my favorite Kerouac book was Big Sur and it wasn't really about traveling but i felt like i could relate with his downward spiral with drinking and solitude. darma bums was good too though

 

[Deleted member 2626]

Dharma bums for sure. Japhy is my favorite dude. Ive read and reread a lot of Kerouac but he is a complete fucking downer man if your not in. The mood for it. I can relate to the drinking as well, never had tremors but have spent a lot of time inebriated by various things but I can't really read much of his stuff anymore. Really into Edward abbey now Literary Barbarian/ hobo that he was. Jack London as well some of his Yukon stories are pretty awesome. Vardis Fisher mountain man is a tough novel but very entertaining and detailed. I always dug rocky mountain trappers and woodsman

 

[xRENx]

hell yea man the only jack london i've read so far was the valley of the moon which is very awesome. from a girls perspective in oakland during the late 1800 she marries a boxer who gets involved in the labor union strikes fighting the cops and running off scabs. dude goes to jail so the wife decides its best to set out on foot with nothing more then back packs with her husband to go start a farm up in norcal and get out of the city. great book. also i have the book jim bridger mountain man. havent read it yet but its on my plate for the winter. its about the original jeremiah johmson

 

[kneedleknees]

yup my favorite Kerouac book was Big Sur and it wasn't really about traveling but i felt like i could relate with his downward spiral with drinking and solitude. darma bums was good too though

Dude I read Big Sur extensively throughout 2013, I really felt that one. it's my favorite Kerouac book too

if you want a collection of poetry check out Ginsberg's the Fall of America if you haven't already. a lot of travel, an elegy for Neal Cassady, got some other good stuff in it too

 

[Deleted member 2626]

I've read some Ginsberg not a big fan. He wanted to be kind of famous, that's no crime judged by some higher law I imagine but not something I agree with, though Kerouac did as well. I really enjoyed desolation angels too from Kerouac. I have an unedited mind fuck scramble he wrote and it stayed original. Kind of dug that, lots of travel and desolation mountain stuff. Its the real start of his insanity. His Paris book too was Alrite basically just him in Europe getting fucked up on cognac every night tracking down his name

 

[kneedleknees]

I've read some Ginsberg not a big fan. He wanted to be kind of famous, that's no crime judged by some higher law I imagine but not something I agree with, though Kerouac did as well. I really enjoyed desolation angels too from Kerouac. I have an unedited mind fuck scramble he wrote and it stayed original. Kind of dug that, lots of travel and desolation mountain stuff. Its the real start of his insanity. His Paris book too was Alrite basically just him in Europe getting fucked up on cognac every night tracking down his name

I like Ginsberg when he's not trying to elevate himself for the sake of maintaining an ego if that makes any sense. like the supermarket poem when he's talking about Whitman seems to me just..... irritating lol.
totally unrelated series, but for winter Im gonna start reading the Dune series. cant recommend it yet, but the movie is good. if you havent seen that I'd recommend it

 

[Traveler]

Dune by Frank Herbert.

Edit: Totally didn't read your last post

 

[mymotherisafish]

Two of my favorites are the jungle by upton sinclair and as i lay dying by william faulkner. Anything by faulkner is good really. Oh, and crime and punishment by Dostoyevsky. I could talk about books for years

 

[mymotherisafish]

I just now found a copy of Mein Kampf by hitler plus about a gram of weed at the city park in nola HELL YES

 

[Kal]

The Dome, it was written by Stephen King. I love westerns, Louis La' Moore, Zane Grey, Ralph Cotton. I may not be a cowboy but I am one at heart.

 

[Deleted member 2626]

Kal if you love westerns check out terry c Johnston. He wrote historical novels. A lot of rocky mountain trapper books that are awesome and personal. The main character leaves st. Louis and a life of nothing to travel west alone on a horse. And hr wrote a novel about the guy as a kid leaving home to travel to new Orleans. Its like an 1800s travel novel

 

[Kal]

Kal if you love westerns check out terry c Johnston. He wrote historical novels. A lot of rocky mountain trapper books that are awesome and personal. The main character leaves st. Louis and a life of nothing to travel west alone on a horse. And hr wrote a novel about the guy as a kid leaving home to travel to new Orleans. Its like an 1800s travel novel

Cool I will have to give him a try.

 

[xRENx]

i read the jungle last winter and it was pretty awesome, i like when he finally hopped a train outta chicago to go work on farms out west for the summer then came back. but to be honest i put this book down for like 6 months before i picked it back up to finish it. great book though i want to read oil by upton sinclair. they made a movie sorta about the bood called there will be blood. but back to steven king i want to read gun slinger from the dark tower series. i've read the first two chapters but left the house where it was located and never had a chance since to pick it back up. also im really burn out on all the beat poet shit. to many kids talk about this shit non stop and yea its some good shit but its not something im obsessed with

 

[Kal]

i read the jungle last winter and it was pretty awesome, i like when he finally hopped a train outta chicago to go work on farms out west for the summer then came back. but to be honest i put this book down for like 6 months before i picked it back up to finish it. great book though i want to read oil by upton sinclair. they made a movie sorta about the bood called there will be blood. but back to steven king i want to read gun slinger from the dark tower series. i've read the first two chapters but left the house where it was located and never had a chance since to pick it back up. also im really burn out on all the beat poet shit. to many kids talk about this shit non stop and yea its some good shit but its not something im obsessed with

Who wrote the jungle?

 

[xRENx]

upton sinclair, its about the work conditions in the meat packing industry in chicago during the late 1800's.

 

[Deleted member 2626]

I have it too in my mini library I read 3/4 of it and never finished but it is an interesting and sick book

 

[xRENx]

anyone into anthony burgess, there are a few of his books i'd like to read, i started earthly powers but pus it down. i heard he has a 1985 which some people say is better the 1984 also the wanting seed is supposed to be good but haent read either. i did read a clockwork orange though and it lead me to earthly powers which i may fiinish one day

 

[Deleted member 20]

Hey @xRENx i too have zen & the art in my pile of books to read. Its on loan from my friend Rick. I gotta start that 1