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Deluxe Classics Dharma Bums (Paperback)

by Ann Douglas (Foreword), Jack Kerouac (Author)

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Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics; Deluxe edition (Oct 31 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0143039601
ISBN-13: 978-0143039600
Product Dimensions: 21 x 13 x 2 cm
Shipping Weight: 318 g

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Published just one year after "On The Road", this is the story of two men engaged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.

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Jack Kerouac(1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Among his many novels are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, sprawling novel that sprawls and sprawls and sprawls ad nauseum, Sep 1 2008

By	Benjamin Anderson (Fredericton, NB CAN) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I hold a great deal of interest in the beat writers and have read a variety of novels from the likes of Burroughs and have read a few books from Ginsberg. Kerouac is undoubtedly the most talented of the three big guns of the Beats.

Kerouac's writing is poetry. The simultaneous amalgam of vivid and surreal scenes gives literally every sentence a touch of beauty. I can not get over how well written this book was. Kerouac could not have crafted better sentences and rambled sections.

The one problem I had with this book was that, really, not a lot happened. It is essentially 200 pages of Ray and Japhy walking through woods, climbing mountains and waxing philosophical and Buddhist. I love nature, trees, woods, forests and lakes, and have a deep rooted connection to the rural lifestyle having come from a town noted only for its scenery and natural beauty, and my own grandfather literally lived in the woods for a large portion of his life and we still visit the place of his home now, years after the house burnt down and the government swindled the land from him. I love this sort of thing. However, it does get tedious to read over 200 pages. I actually put the book down for 6 months.

Also, I find the book a little self-congratulatory. Kerouac spends a great deal of time essentially saying how awesome it is to be a dharma bum like he and his companions. Sure, it does seem like a life-altering experience, but it does become grating after a while.

Still, a classic beautiful novel that has one of the greatest endings I've ever read.

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