what is the best book to read, or top couple of books to read by this author??
2007-02-19 05:31:04 · 7 answers · asked by mike 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
1. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
A sample from the review in the first link below:
""On the Road" is a novel that makes the reader want to go out there, seize the day, and live, live, live! Jack Kerouac, creator of the "beat generation" best sums up his philosophy as "everything belongs to me because i am poor". The failure of ideology and of the American Dream in the 1960s gave young dreamers who were eager to live just one way out: the road.
Kerouac presents Sal Paradise, a young and innocent writer, and Dean Moriarty, a crazy youth "tremendously excited with life" racing around America, and testing the limits of the American Dream. Their journeys consist of scenes of rural wilderness, sleepy small towns, urban jungles, endless deserts-all linked by the road, the outlet of a generation's desire and inner need to get out, break its confinement, and find freedom, liberated from any higher belief, notion, or ideology. The desperation and the lack of fulfillment made these youths feel that "the only thing to do was go", searching for their personal freedom, and finding pleasure in sex, drugs, and jazz."
2. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
A sample from a review - see second link, please.
"He doesn't need any money... all he needs is his rucksack.
There really was no end to Jack's writing talents after all! This is the fifth book of his that I've had the pleasure of reading, and it is by far and away my favourite.
When you get to the top of a mountain, keep climbing.
Packed with all the excitement of his classic masterpiece On The Road, this follows Jack on the road in a similarly enthralling manner that makes the reader want above all else to join him on his journeys of self-discovery."
2007-02-19 05:41:19 · answer #1 · answered by johnslat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On The Road. It is the most famous and widely read and probably best defines the Beats. Awesome book- I re-read it frequently. (Part 3, 3rd chapter where Dean takes Sal to the jazz club. Is there better storytelling than THAT???)
Dharma Bums is very popular. I also enjoy The Subterraneans, a mixed race love story. You can read his feelings through the words.
2007-02-19 05:55:25 · answer #2 · answered by rich h 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"On The Road" is one of his best. He wrote this book in ony a few weeks sitting at his manual old fashioned typewriter using a long teletype roll of paper to save time putting in new pages. Jack Keroak lived in coffee, cigarettes and food a friend would occasionally deliver and finished this book in record time! He practically invented the term, stream of consciousness" based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America. It is often considered a defining work of the postwar Beat Generation that was inspired by jazz, poetry, and drug experiences.
2007-02-19 05:41:42 · answer #3 · answered by Freesumpin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, it's spelled "Kerouac." His best known and certainly one of his best is On the Road, but as a Kerouac fan, I also like The Dharma Bums, Desolation Angels, Big Sur, Vanity of Duluoz, The Town and the City, and Lonesome Traveler. He wrote others, but those are my favorites.
2007-02-19 06:16:55 · answer #4 · answered by Ray 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose "on the road" would probably be a good place to start. I've never read it but i get these reoccuring dreams that I'm looking for it at the library and can never find it. So naturally it made me curious, but I haven't picked up a copy yet. . .
2007-02-19 10:09:14 · answer #5 · answered by I Am That Yankee Doodle Boy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I LOVE THE BOOK ON THE ROAD!
â¥Robertaâ¥
2007-02-19 05:42:02 · answer #6 · answered by ♥Roberta. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the best is considered On The Road, so try it...if you haven't yet
2007-02-19 05:39:54 · answer #7 · answered by Domi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋