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	• Dharma Bums Jack Kerouac Amereon Limited, 1976 average customer review:based on 150 reviews view larger image
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Tresure Found

As bad as it may sound I had not heard of Jack Kerouac until very recently. In my defense he died a year before I was born and although I have always been a reader it took until now for my reading interests to expand and give me this opportunity. I am enjoying Dharma Bums a lot as it speaks of things that are just as important today as they were when it was written like living a simple life is more free than living a consumer driven one. I have even started looking into Jack to know more on who he was and those he references in the book (look online to find who the real people are compared to the character names; one being Poet , author Gary Snyder). I also plan on buying the book "on the Road" scroll version which is the recomended version.

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Beatizen

This is a great example of the Beats' beautifully naive fascination with Buddhism. It is probably in my top 2 or 3 favorite Kerouac books. I would recommend it to anyone who likes the Beats, Poetry, Buddhism, backpacking, simple pleasures, etc.

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Traveling, Hiking, Buddhism

This book is perfect for anyone who enjoys traveling, hiking or the idea of freeing themselves from a 9 to 5. It's even better for those who feel all of these things simultaneously. Kerouac writes with a terse honesty and gives the reader so many opportunities to apply meaning to our own lives. He helps us to question our own role not in society, but in the search for ourselves.

This book is a little less dark than most of his other books, and it contains some of his best ideas. The protagonist uses another character, Japhy, to explore ideas of Buddhism (Japhy's zen versus his own version). This is never done in an academic way, but rather in the spirit of the book itself: a free, wandering exploration which does not seek overall resolution.

Kerouac also has a gift for self-degredation. He puts his own character and ideas down in subtle ways and moves on without worry for how it looks. Kerouac seems to write as he lives: without too much worry and always with a song in his heart. At one point Japhy becomes concerned about the protagonist (obviously a Kerouac alter-ego) because he is drinking so much. The pathos here is magnified when we know the biography of Kerouac's life.

This is a must read for people who live in the Northwest. His description of their mountain-climbing is excellent. I will let you find the good quotes on your own.

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Back to the future

Now in 2008 I'm older then Kerouac ever became. But that's not important. When I first read the book I was nineteen, now I'm fifty nine. I still love the book and the writer and the characters. Of course Japhy and Han Shan and Ray. The search for wisdom, love, poetry, nature , living a pure life is from all times: Han Shan, Garry Schnyder, Jack Keouac in his best periode, no alcohol, no paranoia.

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From the author of "On The Road" comes this story of two men enganged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the high sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.

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