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both fantastic books, especially dharma bums. i like to recommend maggie cassidy to everyone who likes kerouac because it seems to be forgotten by most and it is probably my favorite kerouac book, and i've read them all. the most perfect descriptions of high school crushes you'll ever read.

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i stand by jack but what do you suggest there, inglenntion?

 

Tortilla Flat & Cannery Row beat, for me, anything that Kerouac ever wrote. There is something very similar about them to the works of Kerouac too. Not that there is any point in comparing, as they are both authors worth reading. I'm quite a fan of Dr. Sax by Kerouac, and The Dharma Bums (as mentioned) is fantastic.

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Don't forget "Visions of Gerard" also....

 

Steinbeck was my favorite author growing up. Of Mice and Men and

Cannery Row are excellent. Both are great authors.

 

Nice to see the original version of OTR finally make it to print.

 

LouieB

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Tortilla Flat & Canary Row beat, for me, anything that Kerouac ever wrote. There is something very similar about them to the works of Kerouac too. Not that there is any point in comparing, as they are both authors worth reading. I'm quite a fan of Dr. Sax by Kerouac, and The Dharma Bums (as mentioned) is fantastic.

Maybe, but I think they're trying to achieve different things with their writing. There's plenty of room on my shelf for both. :hug

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Got to love Kerouac. I am reading The Dharma Bums now, and then most likely Big Sur.

Kerouac is most interesting for his writing method, and for On the Road. I once read some of his poetry, and it was pretty terrible.

 

nah. read john steinbeck and then get back to me.

Steinbeck is good when he's trying to be cute.

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To go back even a bit further....for the spirit of living on the road and making music, I'd highly recommend the 2005 biography Ramblin' Man: The Life And Times Of Woody Guthrie. Fabulous reading, it captures a side of Americana we rarely think about nowadays. :thumbup

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Speaking of Kerouac (but not of Tweedy), I was interested to read this article about the new edition of On the Road being released soon: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070818/en_af...ks_070818083434

 

On the Road was one of the first books that was really important to me when I started writing seriously and when I started studying English in college. I haven't read it in a few years, so I'm looking forward to picking this up when it comes out, though I do hope they inserted some paragraph breaks. I'm a bit skeptical about the movie being any good, but I said that about the film adaptations of Michael Cunningham's The Hours and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake and both were great.

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I'm not sure if I get the refrence. Is he comparing kerouac's writing to tweedy's voice as some kind of idea of imperfect perfection? That the cracks tell you more than a perfect pitch would? In that case I'd agree, I guess, but I don't know if tweedy would be the first voice to spring to mind for that point.

 

I always thought the neat thing about kerouac was that he thought of himself as a musician, like these jazz guys he idolized. Truman Capote called on the road 'typing' not writing, and he was right, but it wasn't the insult he ment it to be. It was this awesome improvized book, like a peice of music, all swooping all over and the parts that don't work make the parts that due all the better.

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The article was okay, but the book that is reviewed sounds like crap. At least the original version of OTR has finally been released.

 

(when is the movie coming out???)

 

LouieB

 

According to the IMDB

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GET OUT!!!

 

I really had no idea, and, if I did, I forgots about it.

 

Weird.

Right over here is a clip.

Not bad, I guess. It has been posted around these parts before. You might search for the thread about the movie. :thumbup

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