Reading 1001 discussion

5. You may have read Jack Kerouac's On the Road or William Burroughs Junkie and Allen Ginsberg. These were author's from the Beat Generation (1940s). Tom Wolfe is writing about the Hippies of the sixties. Other authors from the New Journalism include; Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, Terry Southern, Robert Christgau, Gay Talese and others. How do these generations differ or are they alike?

I've read On The Road, Junkie, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I was a young adult in the Hippies. I've read Truman Capote,, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion and I have to say, I think the beat generation was nicer and easier to swallow than the Hippy generation. I truly did not like the Merry Pranksters. Not overly fond of the Beat Generation but they were not in your face so much.