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"Kerouac was a breath of fresh air when he came on the literary scene. He was also a force, a tragedy, a triumph, and an ongoing influence, and that influence is still with us."
--Norman Mailer
"Kerouac ... defines the sensibilites of members of his own subgeneration: we knew them as wearing such guises as the Beat Generation, the Subterraneans, the Dharma Bums; now we see them as Desolation Angels, sadly pursuing their empty futilities..."
--Nelson Algren
"Each book by Kerouac is unique, a telepathic discord. Such rich natural writing is nonpareil in later 20th century, a synthesis of Proust, Celine, Thomas Wolfe, Hemingway, Genet, Thelonius Monk, Basho, Charlie Parker and Kerouac's own athletic sacred insight. Jack Kerouac was a 'writer' as his great peer William S. Burroughs says."
--Allen Ginsberg
--Norman Mailer
"Kerouac ... defines the sensibilites of members of his own subgeneration: we knew them as wearing such guises as the Beat Generation, the Subterraneans, the Dharma Bums; now we see them as Desolation Angels, sadly pursuing their empty futilities..."
--Nelson Algren
"Each book by Kerouac is unique, a telepathic discord. Such rich natural writing is nonpareil in later 20th century, a synthesis of Proust, Celine, Thomas Wolfe, Hemingway, Genet, Thelonius Monk, Basho, Charlie Parker and Kerouac's own athletic sacred insight. Jack Kerouac was a 'writer' as his great peer William S. Burroughs says."
--Allen Ginsberg
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With the publication of On the Road in 1957, Jack Kerouac became at once the spokesman and hero of the Beat Generation. Along with such visionaries as William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac changed teh face of American literature, igniting a counterculture revolution that even now, decades later, burns brighter than ever in Desolation Angels.
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THOSE AFTERNOONS, those lazy afternoons, when I used to sit, or lie down, on Desolation Peak, sometimes on the alpine grass, hundreds of miles of snowcovered rock all around, looming Mount Hozomeen on my north, vast snowy Jack to the south, Read the first page
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THOSE AFTERNOONS, those lazy afternoons, when I used to sit, or lie down, on Desolation Peak, sometimes on the alpine grass, hundreds of miles of snowcovered rock all around, looming Mount Hozomeen on my north, vast snowy Jack to the south, Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
The Road to Ruin,
By Patrick Julian Cassidy (San Francisco...Author of "A Journey to Bohemia") - See all my reviews
This review is from: Desolation Angels (Paperback)
Let me tell you a story. I had just come down toSan Francisco after a couple of years of bumming around the Great Northwest. It was a Monday morning and I had picked up a newspaper; bound and determined to scour the want ads until I found prospects for an honest job, with the full intention of becoming more respectful. I went to a cafe in North Beach and had a seat at one of the outdoor tables. As I began to unfold the newspaper, I noticed that someone had left a copy of "Desolation Angels" on the chair. I picked it up and started to read it. Several hours later I abandoned my faint tries at redemption and walked over to Washington Square to work on some poetry. The man can flat out write. That's why they call him the King of the Beats.
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The ghost of what could have been a great novel,
By Jon E. Ross (Nanaimo, British Columbia Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Desolation Angels (Paperback)
Full of despairing, incoherent digressions, Kerouac charts the period following DHARMA BUMS, and ends with the publication of ON THE ROAD. True, there are some sections where Kerouac is able to bring the pages alive like few writers before or after him, but a lot of the time he's simply describing, in insistent, banal detail, the day-to-day wanderings of his alter-ego, Jack Duluoz: sitting in front of the tube with Ginsberg, Cassady and his wife, hooking up with a young, aspiring, naive New York writer, slumming around Mexico...all this is perfectly suitable material for a novel, except it's less a novel than a blown up journal, with really no unifying themes to drive the narrative forward.I enjoy Kerouac as much as the next guy, but after reading through this one, I really just came away feeling depressed and sorry for Mr. Kerouac and sorry for all the rest of us. And that's, in my opinion, the greatest crime a novel can commit.
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A journey into the mind of a true madman!!!,
By Rob (New Cumberland, PA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Desolation Angels (Paperback)
If you've read On the Road, then this is a must read. It is a true journey into the mind of a madman. A more intimate look into the man that defined a generation of our parents, parents. As a younger reader of the generation today it is beneficial for us to see how people lived in past generations and take with us their experiences that in a sense you could not experience today. If I've taken anything from this book its the showing of the need for insanity in the life of Kerouac. And the need for constinent movement, not just in the physical sense but also in the mental sense of having his mind in constient movement.
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