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Jack Kerouac

#17788872 - 02/12/13 01:52 PM (13 years, 8 months ago)

Me and some of my friends are pretty big Kerouac fans, especially since the town we live in he once lived in for a period on his later life. He is one of my favorite authors and I've read a number of his works including on the road, dharma bums, tristessa, lonesome traveler, Mexico City blues, visions of Gerard, and the hippos were boiled in there tanks. All of them were astounding and some of my favorite works of all time. Today I'm gonna be getting visions of Cody in the mail. Anyone else a fan of kerouacs books or have any I haven't yet read you would recommend?

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Re: Jack Kerouac

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#17788909 - 02/12/13 01:58 PM (13 years, 8 months ago)

:highfive:

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#17788921 - 02/12/13 02:00 PM (13 years, 8 months ago)

One of the greats of our time

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#17789006 - 02/12/13 02:15 PM (13 years, 8 months ago)

Loved OTR the first time I read it at 21 or so, enough to re-read it about 2 months later (though I didn't have a lot of other books with me to read at the time).
Not sure what I thought about Hippos...Tanks. Didn't leave a huge impression on me.
Tried to read Subterraneans, but got bored with it for some reason and never finished it.
Would like to get into some of his more poetic stuff though actually.

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#17789018 - 02/12/13 02:16 PM (13 years, 8 months ago)

Check out Mexico City blues it's a poem so long it's an entire book.

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#17789034 - 02/12/13 02:19 PM (13 years, 8 months ago)

The "Hippos" I thought was interesting because you could see how both authors had already begun developing the voice/style of their later years. For fans of the era Id recommend Paul Bowles if you havent read him already.

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#17789037 - 02/12/13 02:20 PM (13 years, 8 months ago)

He was mentioned heavily in this extensive biography I read about Burroughs, I'm gonna check out his work now.

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#17789079 - 02/12/13 02:28 PM (13 years, 8 months ago)

You might enjoy Kobo Abe or Haruki Murakami...

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#17789096 - 02/12/13 02:31 PM (13 years, 8 months ago)

Is any of Bowles writing autobiographical? I don't enjoy fiction really.

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#17789100 - 02/12/13 02:32 PM (13 years, 8 months ago)

Big Sur is a good book. I brought it with me on the road a few times. Dont even know how many times Ive read it

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#17789106 - 02/12/13 02:32 PM (13 years, 8 months ago)

Connoisseur said:

Check out Mexico City blues it's a poem so long it's an entire book.

Reading the first pages on Amazon:

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Wild men
Who kill
Have karmas
Of ill

Good men
Who love
Have karmas
Of dove

:undecided:

I'll probably check it out though.

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#17789119 - 02/12/13 02:35 PM (13 years, 8 months ago)

MCB is a very versatile book, a lot of it is a ton of shit but plenty of it is very good.

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#17789133 - 02/12/13 02:39 PM (13 years, 8 months ago)

Connoisseur said:

Is any of Bowles writing autobiographical? I don't enjoy fiction really.

Not like Kerouac, at least from what I remember reading. Try John Fante...

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#17789148 - 02/12/13 02:42 PM (13 years, 8 months ago)

The thing that heavily attracts me to Kerouac Burroughs and Ginsbergs work is the heavy autobiographical element in a lot of there writing. Love the time travel effect it gives.

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#17789152 - 02/12/13 02:44 PM (13 years, 8 months ago)

All writing is influenced heavily by an autobiographical element. And any trip to interzone is not of time but dimension.

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#17789157 - 02/12/13 02:46 PM (13 years, 8 months ago)

Apparently Bowles wrote an autobiography called without stopping. Just put it on my list, you ever heard of it.

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#17789181 - 02/12/13 02:53 PM (13 years, 8 months ago)

Maybe, ... I only remember A Distant Episode with any clarity.

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#17789367 - 02/12/13 03:36 PM (13 years, 8 months ago)

You guys might enjoy the documentaries:

This one is particularly interesting:

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the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk,

mad to be saved,

desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”}

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#17789381 - 02/12/13 03:38 PM (13 years, 8 months ago)

Hell ya thanks man

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#17789552 - 02/12/13 04:19 PM (13 years, 8 months ago)

Visions of Cody just showed up :smile:

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