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The first Kerouac book I read was On The Road. I was in college...more...]]> 5231653 316797 10461 1573225053 9781573225052 119 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672m/10461.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672s/10461.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10461.Desolation_Angels 3.83 1965 1965 3 1 false Mon Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Tue Aug 28 10:59:05 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 28 11:10:06 -0700 2007 If you're expecting this to be an off-shoot of On The Road, you'd be wrong.
This book is a journey into the mind of Kerouac. Some call him genius, some madman, but I don't think you can truly define him in any one c...more...]]> 60216547 2372483 10461 1573225053 9781573225052 119 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672m/10461.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672s/10461.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10461.Desolation_Angels 3.83 1965 1965 5 0 false Thu Jun 18 15:15:29 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 13:47:02 -0700 2009
Yet to put it ...more...]]> 73533240 2706782 3767 0586089071 9780586089071 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165357776m/3767.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165357776s/3767.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3767.Desolation_Angels 3.55 20 1965 3 0 true Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 12:57:17 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 13:16:58 -0700 2009 Solitude Vs Wildness atop Mt Desolation Kerouac enjoys the peace & solitude but as soon as he's back into the fold of Cassa...more...]]> 59375227 1482163 10461 1573225053 9781573225052 119 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672m/10461.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672s/10461.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10461.Desolation_Angels 3.83 1965 1965 5 0 false Fri Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 02:11:03 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 26 11:14:18 -0800 2009 2 more...]]> 43125648 1401395 10461 1573225053 9781573225052 119 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672m/10461.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672s/10461.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10461.Desolation_Angels 3.83 1965 1965 4 1 false Thu Jan 15 09:20:56 -0800 2009 Thu May 14 04:48:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 41709107 1790105 10461 1573225053 9781573225052 119 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672m/10461.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672s/10461.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10461.Desolation_Angels 3.83 1965 1965 3 0 false Tue Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 07:30:25 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 22:39:22 -0800 2009 On The Road or The Dharma Bums from Kerouac, I would advise you not to read this book. It is much more moody and inside Kerouac’s mind. Perhaps it’s Kerouac’s Naked Lunch, in a way. In Desolation Angels, Kerouac survives two months on a mountaing, l...more...]]> 40332897 1571133 10461 1573225053 9781573225052 119 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672m/10461.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672s/10461.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10461.Desolation_Angels 3.83 1965 1965 4 0 false Wed Dec 17 15:15:18 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 15:15:45 -0800 2008 ON THE ROAD...with Mom

This book may come as a real shock to those whom have a preconcieved notion about what the "Beats" were all about, and it may also be a shock for those more familiar with the jubilant ecstatic life affirmations of On The Road or e...more...]]> 29711391 563578 10461 1573225053 9781573225052 119 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672m/10461.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672s/10461.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10461.Desolation_Angels 3.83 1965 1965 3 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Aug 09 14:29:15 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 07 06:50:40 -0800 2009 more...]]> 57046888 2347164 10461 1573225053 9781573225052 119 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672m/10461.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672s/10461.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10461.Desolation_Angels 3.83 1965 1965 4 0 false Sat May 23 06:42:30 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 06:46:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 65632391 2580517 10461 1573225053 9781573225052 119 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672m/10461.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672s/10461.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10461.Desolation_Angels 3.83 1965 1965 5 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Fri Jul 31 04:29:06 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 04:34:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 45447453 1380768 10461 1573225053 9781573225052 119 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672m/10461.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672s/10461.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10461.Desolation_Angels 3.83 1965 1965 2 0 false Thu Feb 05 07:01:38 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 07:02:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6830910 418231 10461 1573225053 9781573225052 119 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672m/10461.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672s/10461.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10461.Desolation_Angels 3.83 1965 1965 5 0 false Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Wed Sep 26 09:39:49 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 09:43:32 -0700 2007 On the Road. His theories on "spontaneous prose" were pretty refined by the time he wrote Desolation Angels, and it shows. There are a lot of brilliant uses of free-form language and sections of incredible rhythm. My a...more...]]> 81284924 365698 10461 1573225053 9781573225052 119 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672m/10461.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672s/10461.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10461.Desolation_Angels 3.83 1965 1965 0 0 false Thu Dec 17 07:01:07 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 17 07:55:12 -0800 2009 the sound of silence
is the only instruction
you'll get.
a peaceful sorrow at home is the best i'll ever be able to offer the world, in the end, and so i told my desolation angels goodbye. a new life for me.]]> 39851788 156664 10461 1573225053 9781573225052 119 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672m/10461.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672s/10461.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10461.Desolation_Angels 3.83 1965 1965 5 0 false Thu Dec 11 04:52:11 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 04:53:09 -0800 2008 50103143 2151639 10461 1573225053 9781573225052 119 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672m/10461.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672s/10461.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10461.Desolation_Angels 3.83 1965 1965 3 0 false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 22 16:25:34 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 16:26:18 -0700 2009 67241544 125333 10461 1573225053 9781573225052 119 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672m/10461.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672s/10461.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10461.Desolation_Angels 3.83 1965 1965 4 0 false Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 09:32:10 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 12:49:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2059231 15879 10461 1573225053 9781573225052 119 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672m/10461.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672s/10461.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10461.Desolation_Angels 3.83 1965 1965 4 0 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 17 14:20:18 -0700 2007 Tue Jan 22 09:37:20 -0800 2008 On the Road." I read this book and "Dharma Bums" and I believe I have a much better picture of who Kerouac is and the value of these two books.

This book picks up almost where "Dharma Bums" left off, plus a few ...more...]]> 45753847 2009497 10461 1573225053 9781573225052 119 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672m/10461.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672s/10461.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10461.Desolation_Angels 3.83 1965 1965 5 0 false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Feb 08 13:23:51 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 13:35:22 -0800 2009 45458230 1998572 10461 1573225053 9781573225052 119 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672m/10461.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649672s/10461.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10461.Desolation_Angels 3.83 1965 1965 3 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:13:23 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:13:55 -0800 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2287245