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This book was mentioned in a blog post of the 'Nine Subversive Travel Novels', where author Thomas Kohnstamm 'celebrates fiction that uncovers deeper truths about travel and the world'.
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I reread this a couple years ago. I was a big JK fan in high school and college. Then I grew out of it.
JK's "spontaneous prose" is one thing. This is quite another. Edited to bear at least some resemblance to conventional narrative fiction, the net result is neither spontaneous nor terribly interesting.
And the description of Dean Moriarty (Neal Cassady) is that of a complete sociopath.
For a better story, try "The Dharma Bums."
For better examples of JK's free-flowing prose, try almost anything el ...more
JK's "spontaneous prose" is one thing. This is quite another. Edited to bear at least some resemblance to conventional narrative fiction, the net result is neither spontaneous nor terribly interesting.
And the description of Dean Moriarty (Neal Cassady) is that of a complete sociopath.
For a better story, try "The Dharma Bums."
For better examples of JK's free-flowing prose, try almost anything el ...more
May 25, 2011
Robyn Blaber
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This is what I imagined the "great American novel" to be. I was reminded of Twain, Nabokov and others who took their characters across America while gliding along to the sonorous poetry of his simultaneously simple and intellectual writing.
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