All of Life Is Creation: Jack Kerouac’s Art

Re:All of Life Is Creation: Jack Kerouac’s Art by LandR on Monday November 19, 2018 @04:51AM (#18485204)

I read and loved "On The Road" but had to give up on Desolation Angels it just read like an incoherent stream of consciousness and felt like such hard going.

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Re:All of Life Is Creation: Jack Kerouac’s Art by brother-seamus on Monday November 19, 2018 @07:32AM (#18485920)

That was exactly my take as well. Absolutely loved On the road, found Dharma Bums to be too incoherent.

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Re:All of Life Is Creation: Jack Kerouac’s Art by mruts on Monday November 19, 2018 @07:55AM (#18486041)

I think On the Road and Big Sur are his strongest works.

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Re:All of Life Is Creation: Jack Kerouac’s Art by jddj on Monday November 19, 2018 @08:32AM (#18486257)

I agree 100%. Reading On The Road first is essential, but Big Sur for me was the best example of that sharp, cynical ennui which for whatever reason was exactly what I was looking for during that period of my life when I read as much Kerouac as I could find.

Great book.

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Re:All of Life Is Creation: Jack Kerouac’s Art by redwood on Monday November 19, 2018 @09:13AM (#18486490)

I once tried to trek up Matterhorn Peak in the eastern sierra but it was a rainy day and we felt we had to give up the plan. As a result I permanently have an association of sort of a foggy confused state of affairs staring up at the mountain that I can't even see. Apt perhaps

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Re:All of Life Is Creation: Jack Kerouac’s Art by superhuzza on Monday November 19, 2018 @10:33AM (#18487092)

Huh, I had no idea there was a 'Matterhorn peak' in California. I'd only heard of 'the Matterhorn' in the Alps.

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