Has anyone read Jack Kerouac?

[weirdnjfan1]

I've been looking around for a long time for something good to read, due to the fact I'm up to my ears in Stephen King and need to take a break for reading him and James Patterson for a while. So while looking around the internet, I found out about an author by the name of Jack Kerouac. I started to look into him and decided that I wanted to read a book or two by him. The only problem is that I have no idea how he is. I know that I'm gonna get told to from my opinion on him, but I'm curious to see what other people think about him. How is he? I know that some people have read stuff by him on here, I just want to see what other people think. My school lib has a book by him called Big Sur, which is the Sequal to the book On The Road, buyt I really want to know if I should read on the road first or just go and grab Big Sur sometime. Please help me.

[cheapmuthafukr]

read on the road first...then anything else....

kerouac is a great writer... one of my favorites.

[denimdestroyedmylife]

seconded.

read "on the road" ASAP

[sycamore no more]

Jack Kerouac is one of my favorite writers from the Beat Generation.

You should read Jack Kerouacs "The Subeterraneans" This novel was written in the course of three days a three nights. Its a one night read and its fucking epic.

[sycamore no more]

Oh and I forgot, Dharma Bums also, READ IT!

[RobbertJan]

start with On the Road, genius, you'll keep reading until you've finished it. It's one of those books that inspires you, when you read it all you think about is getting a car and going on the same trip.

[Corbin Law]

everyones already said it

but lemme say it again

start with on the road. it is beautiful

i am yet to read dharma bums yet but i plan on it sometime soon

i do reccomend kerouac, he makes you want to go somewhere. it doesnt matter where. but it makes you move. regardless of the location or the starting point, just the act of moving.

[REALL1]

Interesting that no one has mentioned Fallen Angel his journal collection, or Desolation Angels. I would argue that On the Road, though most popularized, is not his best work.

[isdenn]

i agree that on the road is not his best but it is the best starting point for someone who has no prior exposure to kerouac's writing. i also liked fallen angels, and some of the dharma is also a trip to read - it's made up of stuff from his journals containing his various (mis)interpretations of buddhism, among other things.

[REALL1]

i agree that on the road is not his best but it is the best starting point for someone who has no prior exposure to kerouac's writing. i also liked fallen angels, and some of the dharma is also a trip to read - it's made up of stuff from his journals containing his various (mis)interpretations of buddhism, among other things.

It would have been more expressive to have said that I really enjoyed On the Road but fell in love with most of Kerouac's more personal writings. His short stories are really passionate, and yes, as stated above really eminate Kerouac's sense of adventure.

[Larry Bird]

the dharma bums and on the road will make you wanna hop frieghts and hitch hike mang...very good books.

[weirdnjfan1]

Whoa, I guess that he is a great author. I'll start by buying On The Road as a christmas present to myself and then go from there. Thanks guys, you've been a big help.

[weirdnjfan1]

Alright an update since the crash. I picked up the book today, as a self christmas present becasue of the fact that I had a rough semesister and needed something to look foward too. So I have to wait four days until I get it, which isn't bad. I'll let you guys know how I like it after I finish it.

[the wit of the staircase]

i hate this book. i can't express how much i hate this book. i loved it when i was 15 though.

[BumbaClot]

on the road... major spark of the beat movement.

Get subcultured and find out what a "hipster" really was.

If you dig Road try reading " The Electric Acid Kool-aid Test" by Tom Wolfe.... which also involves Neal Cassidy aka Dean Moriarity and is a major part of sparking the psychodelic/hippie movement.

keep reading.

[holotekor]

bumbaclot-- hooray for wireless at sunday river. good reads though.

[youngluc]

i got 'on the road' to read while on tour for the next week