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By: Shrdlu

Who can get that into Kerouac? Not the best novel I ever read–in fact it’ so bad, reading On The Road can be hazardous to your health. (He, he.) For reasons I cannot recall, I do have the original...

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By: Anonymous

Can’t get into Kerouac? Sloppy, repetitive? I am grateful to the gods that I live on a higher plain of understanding. Kerouac is the most important American writer since Twain. His creativity is...

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By: Dale Cruse

That needs to be widely released for us completists.

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By: Anonymous

To SHRDLU: I think that he just dug everything and was fascinated with life and death and didn’t try to understand the things that we all waste our lives trying to understand, but instead just lived...

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By: Shrdlu

I’ve read most of this stuff, and even attended a speech by Ginsberg. I’m left with the feeling there was nothing to understand. As for Kerouac, the artists he tried to emulate like Céline and Charlie...

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By: huracán

By JOHN Kerouac?

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By: aileinduinn

Allegedly, his birth name was Jean Jacques-Louis Lebris De Kerouac, “Jack” was a relatively late nom-de-plume.

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By: Anonymous

| If you want to understand that, study the period | CLOSE to understand what happened to Kerouac. Skip | the art pictures and TV shows. Anybody who tries | to understand him, or Burroughs or...

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By: Anonymous

And why he signed it JOHN Kerouac?

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By: Anonymous

Even re-reading Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley gives you the sense that the McCarthy-slasch-HUAC era was screaming for a change of subject.

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By: jphilby

“But Kerouac was also tortured, death obsessed, an alcoholic who withdrew, during his last decade, into a bitter, self-contained universe….” If you want to understand that, study the period CLOSE to...

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By: porkbarrel

Wow, just as sloppy and repetitive as his prose. Who’dathunkit?

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By: Anonymous

Reminds me of the Grandaddy album cover for their final release “Just Like the Fambly Cat”...

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