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    <body><![CDATA[At moments brilliant but mostly drug addled crap, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac's career in microcosm. There are times when his poetry and prose are truly great, when he can incite or captivate or evoke a sensation like a master, but most of the time he is a hack. <br/><br/>I know, I know, y'a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18794216">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think i was reading this at a bar in Belfast as I sipped my first Guinness on (Northern)Irish land(not my first Gunness by any means, just the first one in the Irelands). It was either this or Dr.Sax, and if it was Dr.Sax then i must've read this in Switzerland. Either way, if you like Kerouac you...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53996658">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't care for the Buddhist saints that Kerouac is always dragging in to prove some hazy point.  The poems romp when Kerouac lets go.  The final quarter of this book is a bop word-jam--the language dances &amp; throbs. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think the thing with JK is finding the diamond in the &quot;rough&quot; between the free flow.  Try not to think to hard about what your reading but let it speak to you in your own way... does that make any sense?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Poetry is free<br/>Jo jo bean burned mea<br/>tattered 'spencive jea<br/>ns for the rich and clean]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just couldn't get into it. I'm sure it has its merits, but I couldn't find them.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Formless, meaningless, just what poetry should be like.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kerouac's attempt at &quot;Zen poetry&quot;  Brilliant, in spots...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rhythmic, bizarre, and made me want to do heroin.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kerouac could riff eternally.  KIND KING MIND]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this on a plane to Florida.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A poem that functions more like a 242 verse jazz rhapsody, this book tackles everything from childhood to religion to nonsense. Each poem builds upon or contradicts the one before, and each toys with language and meaning. Though I admit I didn't understand all of it, I feel its one of those poems on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4234168">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[To make any sense of Mexico City Blues by Kerouac, you've got to read it out loud, and read it quickly. <br/><br/>Love his novels, and I'm starting to fall in love with his poetry.<br/><br/>... Also, if anyone is planning on getting into Kerouac's Buddhist texts, then, in the words of Jack: &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61828490">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[despite the overall feeling of mediocrity produced by the repetative prose, there were brief moments of clarity.. i didn't expect the entire book to revolve around pantheism, but it does.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A collection of wild poems that are a cool mixture of jazz, Eastern philosophy and clever wordlplay. Not a dull moment in them, and enough cool ideas to make your head spin.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this while sitting in a bookstore in Juneau, Alaska. It is a lyrical trip through the mind of Kerouac. A rare find but an experience to read.]]></body>
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