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Can We Just Talk About Jack Kerouac For a Minute?
Crosseyedstranger:
I have read Dharma Bums, On The Road, and Visions of Cody. All were really good, although Visions was really hard to get through. Anyone wanna reccomend some others?
Kid Modernist:
Big Sur and Visions of Duluoz are good.
All of em are.
Try reading Orpheus Emerged, a short story he wrote.
Inlander:
Desolation Angels is far and away the best Kerouac I've read. It starts off talking about his experiences being a fire-spotter on top of Desolation Peak (I think) in the Washington State wilderness, and then he comes down from the mountain and has the usual wanderings with his buddies.
Incidentally, I just started reading Lonesome Traveller (which I've had on my bookshelf for years) yesterday, because I was going on a short flight and needed something skinny and readable to take onto the 'plane with me.
Cpt.Fantastic:
ZOMGZ! I love On The Road, it is easily my favourite book. As Inlander said, Desolation Angels is a great book also.
REEEAAAAAD
Joseph:
I love Kerouac, but personally I find William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg to be better beat generation writers. Picking up Howl and Other Poems by Ginsberg is well worth it, and Junky Queer Naked Lunch and Interzone by Burroughs are all great, if a bit wierd to read (and seriously, be prepared before reading Naked Lunch).
Still, Kerouac is great, and I immensely enjoyed On the Road, though I haven't read much of his other stuff.
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