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  <read_at>Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'll admit I wrote my college entrance essay on &quot;On The Road&quot; and at that time in my life I was, like everyone else, inspired by the wild, wide-eyed, ideas of travel and adventure in America.  I've returned to &quot;<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6288.The_Road" title="The Road by Cormac McCarthy">On The Road</a>&quot; via &quot;Dharma Bums&quot; and &quot;The Subterraneans&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6868027">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A graceful, gentle, sadhearted book--less macho than &quot;<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6288.The_Road" title="The Road by Cormac McCarthy">On the Road</a>,&quot; less crank-addled than &quot;The Subterraneans,&quot; but probably better than either. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would actually rate this book a -1.  Hated it.  Read to page 20 TWICE (it's a 97 page book) and couldn't understand anything that was going on.  Something about roosters.  Call me crazy, but I require books with punctuation.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1995</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first book I ever read of Kerouac's - I had no idea who he was at the time - and the first paragraph of this little book had such a profound impact on me, it changed the way I looked at writing immediately, and forever.]]></body>
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    <review id="30801809">
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    <body><![CDATA[My ratings for several books are based on how I felt about them when I read them.  Several books that I loved/&quot;really liked&quot; I don't feel similarly about any longer, to put as simply and as fairly as possible.  Kerouac is probably a perfect example of this.  I loved reading about the melan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30801809">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1693226">
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    <body><![CDATA[A writing professor once told me that I write like Jack Kerouac, which I think is why I bought this and one other Jack Kerouac book at the university book store long, long ago. I had never read his work, and I was curious about it.<br/><br/>Well, I finally got to read him today, and I don't know i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1693226">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="185544">
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite suspicions (mostly my own) of anti-intellectuallism, I'm persisting with my investigation into books small enough to fit into one's jacket pocket. Clearly a book's worth cannot be measured in mass, but to what extent is it really possible to honor the peak of the sacred (the &quot;novel&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/185544">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6336985">
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    <name><![CDATA[Matthew]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[The back cover of this book contains the following quote from Allen Ginsberg: <em>This entire short novel Tristessa's a narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a chihuaha dog, family meat, and a ravishing, ravished junky lady, first in their crowded bedroom, then out to drunken st...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6336985">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21190524">
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    <body><![CDATA[If Kerouak weren’t dead, I would spit in his face for writing this piece-of-crap book. Top four problems: 1) Kerouak’s attempts at Spanish are grotesque. I don’t speak Spanish, and even I know he’s got half the words wrong. 2) His idiotic whiteboy quasi-Buddhist philosophy is sprinkled every...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21190524">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59852477">
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    <body><![CDATA[Tristessa was the last book in my casual jaunt through the mind of Kerouac and I'm glad it's over. Abundant errors plague the text, set to an at times confusing and senseless stream of consciousness, it's clear that this was one of Kerouac's more poetic works, which shows flaws in that he really was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59852477">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55640513">
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  <read_at>Mon May 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[in classic kerouac tradition, you have to read it in one sitting for the flow to make any sense. such beautiful passages, i wanted it to go on. i think one of his few stories with the focus on romance, a woman, and still it had the well known longing, growing, and meditative teaching.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story of Jack's &quot;almost love&quot; with a Mexican Morphine junky. Though it's not my favorite of his works, it's still enjoyable. And, it is still Kerouac, so it's insightful, observant, mysterious...and made me cringe just a little.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tried to reread but couldn't. This stuff used to hit the spot, but not anymore. The spot has moved. Mysticism and romanticism leaves me pretty cold these days. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A sad, beautiful painful love story.  A part of Kerouac's Mexico travels.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a story about a really sad woman.  I'll probably read it again.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tristessa is another quick read Kerouac book. Chronicles a dirty little jaunt through Mexico involving a quirky little whore (aren't they always) and her various makeshift pets. Dirty, grimey, yet still Kerouac like in it's quaintness. Yes yes, he has the ability to make the mundane interesting, but...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8079333">more...</a>]]></body>
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