Jack Kerouac

Advantages: STARTS A GREAT CAMPFIRE DADDIO
Disadvantages: HAVING TO LISTEN TO PEOPLE GO ON ABOUT IT

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Advantages: Hey man get with the Beat Generation.
Disadvantages: Can be a hard journey!

...The American writer Jack Kerouac, b. Jean Louis Kerouac, Lowell, Mass., Mar. 12, 1922, d. Oct. 21, 1969. Kerouac, became a general figure in the beat generation, a term that he himself coined. Famous for such books as On the Road (1957), The Dharma Bums and The Subterraneans (both 1958), Doctor Sax (1959), Lonesome Traveler (1960), and Big Sur (1962). Big Sur brings the reader up to speed on how the writer coped following the publication of his legendary novel On The Road and all the intense pressure that such a literary success brought with it. His works were somewhat loosely structured, and very much autobiographical in nature. Kerouac's trademark writing style seethes with brilliance, his poetic prose being utterly captivating and beautifully philosophical. Kerouac was a great thinker for sure, and very fond of being left along... Read review

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Advantages: Pulls you along at quick pace
Disadvantages: Will make you wonder whether you should change your life

...On The Road, the most famous of Jack Kerouac's works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing, On The Road is thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life friends, lovers, and fellow travelers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac's alter-egos, On the Road is a cross-country bohemian odyssey that not only influenced writing in the years since its 1957 publication but penetrated into the deepest levels of American thought and culture. I read this book whilst having a summer in Canada. My long term girlfriend had recently split up with me and I felt that my life was going nowhere. I met my cousin for the first time and instantly bonded with him, he lived life for the moment and we spent... Read review

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