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Does My Bum Look Big/This?(Diary
Weir

Hodder & Stoughton, 1999

The Dharma Bums (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

5 reviews
Jack Kerouac

Penguin Classics, 2006

The Dharma Bums
Following the success of "On the Road", Kerouac's publishers initially rejected his manuscripts such as "The Subterraneans" and "Tristessa." But his publisher asked him to write an accessible, popular novel continuing with the themes of "On the Road." Kerouac responded with "The Dharma Bums" which was published late in 1958. "The Dharma Bums" is more conventionally written that most of Kerouac's ...

The Twilight of the Bums

1 review
Raymond Federman Chambers, George

Alt-X Press, 2002

A hilarious compilation of stories about two elderly old vagrants
The tales of two filthy old bums - who knew it could be so entertaining? "The Twilight of the Bums" is a hilarious compilation of stories about two elderly old vagrants and their witty conversations, witticisms, and adventures, quirkily illustrated by veteran artist T. Motley in a style that certain fits the content he's illustrating. "The Twilight of the Bums" isn't high comedy, but it doesn't ...

Dharma Bums

2 reviews
Helga Schneider, Jack Kerouac

Blackstone Audiobooks, 2004

On the Road To Enlightenment
Less plot, more pot than On the Road. Where Kerouac's most famous novel was all about reckless travel, music, girls, and rebellion, Dharma Bums is more introspective. Lots of meditation, soul searching and existential ruminations about life, truth, and nature. My only regret is that I didn't choose the book format, as it was hard to keep up with all the philosophical ramblings while listening in ...

Bum Bags and Fanny Packs : A British-American American-British Dictionary

5 reviews
Jeremy Smith

Basic Books, 2006

Funny and terrifically helpful
This book is hilarious, accurate, and surprisingly useful. I lived in England for two years after college and often found myself both befuddled and tickled by the Brits' idiomatic expressions. "You're having me on!", you say. No, I'm not trying to take the Mickey out of you. Or even the Michael. I wish I'd had a copy of Bum Bags and Fanny Packs back then. Just the other day, I consulted ...

The Dharma Bums: 50th Anniversary Edition
Jack Kerouac

Viking Adult, 2008

A deluxe edition of Kerouac’s masterpiece on the 50th anniversary of its first publication First published in 1958, a year after On the Road had put the Beat generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac’s most powerful, influential, and bestselling novels. The story focuses on two untrammeled young Americans—mountaineer, poet, and Zen Buddhist Japhy Ryder and Ray Smith, a zestful, innocent writer—whose quest for ...

Trout Bum

6 reviews
John Gierach

Pruett Publishing Company, 2006

Zen and the art of Trout Fishing
John's travels and travails with A.K. Best and a world class Trout addiction are literate, light and great fun to read when you can't be fishing yourself

Dharma Bums

148 reviews
Jack Kerouac

Amereon Limited, 1976

Something every 20 year old can relate to, at least
One of the most often used metaphors for inner growth is the travel journal and I'm sure Kerouac would have enjoyed Gurdjieff's somewhat autobiograhical travel novel "Meetings with Remarkable Men." Has this generation (2007) not yet found it's Dharma Bums? Maybe the line between literature and music is blurring (thanks to Dylan, Bob that is). Where is the excitement of adventure that leaps off ...

Bums: An Oral Histor of the Brooklyn Dodgers

5 reviews
Peter Golenbock

McGraw-Hill/Contemporary, 2000

First-hand accounts
The strength of this book lies in the first-hand accounts given by the players, executives, and fans that made the Dodgers franchise what it was. It is around these accounts that the book is built, and there is nothing more fascinating than hearing contemporaries reminisce about Campy or the Duke. This moves the book away from journalism and makes it something deeply personal. A must-have for ...

The Bum's Rush (Leo Waterman Mysteries)

3 reviews
G.m. Ford

Avon, 1998

Bum's Rush well worth the read
If you haven't read the first two Leo Waterman mysteries, then you should. G.M. Ford has created a cast as confused and convoluted as his own name. He keeps you laughing without pushing it too far, creates great tension, and manages to get Leo through another crises once again (relatively) unscathed. Once you read this one, you'll want to go back and catch-up with the first two.

Babies & Bums Easy To Make With Polymer Oven Baked Clay
Michelle Lott

Design Originals, 2001

Nothing is more precious than a Baby! You'll love all these Babies and Bums ideas we have for you. and these little darlings are perfectly detailed and a joy to make and display. Just follow our easy illustrated instructions and you'll soon have a nursey full of babies bathing in a tub,sitting on the moon, cuddling in a blanket or sleeping in a basket. There is even a little boy recovering from a broken leg.

Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam

10 reviews

Three Rivers Press, 2001

kinda urban kinda fresh kinda funky
this book is probably the new testament of slam/spoken/performance poetry (Aloud being the old testament). the works here are very fresh and urban; urban to hip hop and the slam community. def poetry jams are the sickest and illest form of poetry. the works within can bring the fun and funk at the same time. there is a myriad of emotion and issues at hands, each poem is strong and in your face ...

The ski bum

1 review
Romain Gary

a guide to life and love
To say that I love Romain Gary would be a euphemism. Not only is he most certainly the best author, with a prose matched by none other and the magical tone of old russian storytellers, Romain Gary is one of the few existentialists to possess a desperately hopeful outlook on life. This book is probably one of his best, if not the best, and the kind of unconditional love he describes in "the ski ...

The Beach Bum's Guide to the Boardwalks of New Jersey
Dick Handschuch, Sal Marino

Down The Shore Publishing, 2008

New Jersey is home to classic and legendary boardwalks -- explore all of them, past and present, in this useful and informative guide to the Shore's ''boards.'' This take-it-with-you guidebook offers locations, directions, maps, as well as side trip suggestions. Boardwalk history and trivia are provided alongside color photographs and old postcard images. This expanded and revised 2nd edition also includes a new section about biking the ...

The Ski Bum
Romain Gary

Harper & Row, 1965

The Fish Bum's Guide to Catching Larger Trout: An Illustrated Manual on Stillwater Tactics for the ...

4 reviews
Michael Croft

Frank Amato Publications, 1998

A seriously fun, illustrated reference for bigtrout-o-holics
Imagine that classic, fully-illustrated, introduction-to-flyfishing of the Disco Era, The Curtis Creek Manifesto, all grown up and gone to grad school. Way more sophisticated in its approach to the subject matter and its style of art, Mike Croft has created a seriously fun, illustrated reference for unrepentant, stillwater bigtrout-o-holics. It sports more usable, hardwon information for the ...

Bleacher Bums

1 review
Joe Mantegna

Samuel French Inc Plays, 1992

Alot of Fun, Hard to Follow
This play is alot of fun. I myself have been in it aand i must say it one of the best shows ive ever been in. However it is extremley hard to follow. Its not always clear what is going on and who the charchters are talking to. But that can easily be fized by watching the movie along with it. It a fun show... enjoy the read.

Bums and Tums
Matt Roberts

Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd, 2003

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