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  • i found it in one of my travels. i was in a hostel in Ireland, and someone left it; as it's my Kerouac's favorite book, and i read it three times or more in italian, i took it and started reading it in english.
    the back cover is missing, the pages have browned, but it's still a pleasant book an ... Continue

    i found it in one of my travels. i was in a hostel in Ireland, and someone left it; as it's my Kerouac's favorite book, and i read it three times or more in italian, i took it and started reading it in english.
    the back cover is missing, the pages have browned, but it's still a pleasant book and it led me to service as a volunteer fire sentinel years ago!

    

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• ― Ale- said on Jul 5, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Un po’ deludente. La prima escursione in montagna è bella, così come anche la parte finale, ma tutto il resto convince poco. I dialoghi non sono granché, le storia diventa presto noiosa e Kerouac dimostra dii aver frainteso molto del buddhismo.

    

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• ― Inciampando sulle Acque said on Sep 21, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • L'ho letto nella traduzione italiana e mi è piaciuto tantissimo (il mio preferito di Kerouac fra quelli che ho letto), e quando sono stato alla City Lights Books non ho potuto fare a meno di comprarmelo in lingua originale (non immagino quanti Kerouachiani pseudo e post fricchettoni giungano lì con ... Continue

    L'ho letto nella traduzione italiana e mi è piaciuto tantissimo (il mio preferito di Kerouac fra quelli che ho letto), e quando sono stato alla City Lights Books non ho potuto fare a meno di comprarmelo in lingua originale (non immagino quanti Kerouachiani pseudo e post fricchettoni giungano lì con lo sguardo ebete e chiedano : "Where can I find the Kerouac section?"), ma per il mio livello di inglese attuale è troppo gergale perchè riesca a capirci qualcosa. Quindi è lì in libreria che aspetta che il mio inglese migliori.

    

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  • Kerouac <I>Dharma Bums</I>

    I thought this was very enjoyable. I always feel a bit trepidations reading books about Buddhism by westerners, but Kerouac had won me over by referring to Zen Buddhism as Chan in <I>Big Sur</I> so thought I’d read this to see what it was like ... Continue

    Kerouac <I>Dharma Bums</I>

    I thought this was very enjoyable. I always feel a bit trepidations reading books about Buddhism by westerners, but Kerouac had won me over by referring to Zen Buddhism as Chan in <I>Big Sur</I> so thought I’d read this to see what it was like. Love of nature and hiking are probably not my favourite topics for a book, but still I found this enjoyable. I did go and find the Chinese poet they were reading, and enjoyed reading his poems. There were interesting contrasts between the isolation of the mountains and the crazy parties at their friends. It was interesting to see that his friend lecture him about his alcohol intake, and then forgive him. It felt very odd to have him visit Seattle and know the area he was talking about. The whole ending felt rather dream like and unreal. But still an enjoyable book.

    

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  • Possibly his best book, although the sequel "Desolation Angels" may be my favorite.

    

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• ― darkwalker said on Jan 23, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  • Another of Kerouac's classics.

    

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• ― Batona said on Mar 30, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

Two ebullient young men are 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, a lesson that has a hard time surviving their forays into the pagan groves of San Francisco's Bohemia with its marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, experiments in "yabyum," and similar nonascetic pastimes.

This autobiographical novel appeared just a year after the author's explosive On the Road put the Beat generation on the literary map and Kerouac on the best-seller lists. The same expansiveness, humor, and contagious zest for life that sparked the earlier novel ignites this one.

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