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| | 3. |  | On the Road: The Original Scroll
from Viking Adult
Price: $10.76
Customer Review:
If you are at all interested in the Beat or Hippie generations, this is a good place to get in touch with the heart of the movements. Jack is brilliant with his writing. He will have you sitting next to him during his blazing adventures in the expanding world of america in the mid-1900s.
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| | 4. |  | Big Sur
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
Price: $8.91
Customer Review:
As I have explained in another entry in this space in a DVD review of the film documentary "The Life And Times Of Allen Ginsberg", recently I have been in a "beat" generation literary frame of mind. I think it helps to set the mood for commenting on Jack Kerouac's lesser work under review here, "Big... more info
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| | 6. |  | On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition
from Viking Adult
Price: $9.94
Customer Review:
Author Jack Kerouac (in the character of Sal Paradise) narrates this love story about two brothers; well, not quite; it's about two sojourners, no, OK, see there's these two polar opposites who've fallen victim to "IT" (you know IT! IT!) . . - aw hell it's about a free spirit (real life Neal Cassidy... more info
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| | 7. |  | Desolation Angels
from Riverhead Books
Price: $7.50
Customer Review:
This is Jack doing what Jack does well. I did not get the same amount of excitement from it as I did from On The Road. It was a satisfying read, but he did better.
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| | 9. |  | Factotum
from Black Sparrow Press
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I absolutely loved Post Office and also enjoyed Factotum. As great as Bukowski proved himself as a poet, his prose is even better in my opinion.
That said, Factotum seemed to be a bit of a watered-down version of Post Office.
The main character, Henry Chinaski, bounced around jobs so much... more info
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