Desolate Angel- Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation & America

Discussion in 'Beat and Hippie Books' started by drumminmama, Sep 2, 2007.

  1. drumminmama

    drumminmama Super Moderator Super Moderator

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    Anyone else read this bio/history/analysis?

    I'm a third of the way through this tome by Dennis McNally (now the publicicst/historian for the Grateful Dead and tour manager for Rat Dog--see what a PhD will get you? slave work).
    I've read enough after-the-fact bio of JK to know I think little of him as a person but I'm intruiged by what he voiced, and how the publication of On the Road affected the growing youth culture and the old line of teh adults of the time.
    And yes, I dreamed of being right along with Sal and Dean (K and Cassidy), somehow making it IN as a female who didn't have to wash clothes and put up with lies. Dreams, I tell ya!

    I'm absorbed by the sources and HOW K came to be the writer he was. And also the unmoored lost soul/loser he became so publically.
     
    drumminmama, Sep 2, 2007
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  3. dollydagger

    dollydagger Needle to the Groove

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    I have not heard of this, but thanks for the tip on it! I definately will check it out.....

    speaking of women, have you read "Heart Beat; My Life with Jack and Neal" by Caroline Cassidy? ( she was Camille in "On The Road") I just was given this book by a friend, and I cannot wait to read it. Apparently, Caroline was a pretty established and respected writer in her own right.
     
    dollydagger, Sep 22, 2007
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  5. tokerof420

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    that book is way detailed i cant get through it so i stopped and started on the road and then ill start dharma bums
     
    tokerof420, Jan 27, 2008
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  7. MokshaMedicine

    MokshaMedicine Banned

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    Dharma Bums is one of my favorites.
     
    MokshaMedicine, Feb 9, 2008
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  9. joo kyle

    joo kyle thisandthat

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    I enjoyed Dharma Bums but found a bit dry when compared to his others. However it should be understood that all of Kerouacs novels are for the most part autobiographical. I just got done reading The Subterranians, fucking brilliant. So far my favorite. The neck Kerouac novel I'll read will either be Big Sur or Desolation Angels. But that is after I read Exterminator! by Burroughs then Slaughter House 5 by Vonnegut.
     
    joo kyle, Mar 16, 2008
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  11. drumminmama

    drumminmama Super Moderator Super Moderator

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    Ok, anyone want to discuss the book IN this thread?
     
    drumminmama, Mar 21, 2008
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