kitty
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Post by kitty on May 26, 2008 9:23:35 GMT
You guys have to read this book. It's like when you're drunk or otherwise intoxicated and you write everything down that's in your head only the next day it makes no sense and is ultimately rather boring but Kerouac manages to make it awesome. And the jazz! I could hear it in my head so clearly just from reading.
You will wish you could drive across America and have adventures.
And Walter Salles, who directed The Motorcycle Diaries, is supposedly going to direct the film version. Could be seriously great.
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mojojojoe
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Post by mojojojoe on Jun 10, 2008 10:07:09 GMT
Dean Moriarty is a God among men. I can't listen to Charlie Parker without his ears, and I don't think I want to change that. When I listen to music all I can think about is sweating.
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kitty
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Post by kitty on Jun 12, 2008 10:22:03 GMT
I still have the terrible urge to get very high and very drunk and drive across america. I couldn't get over the way Dean kept jumping between wives all the time. He was such a fantastically brilliant loser. And he was a real person, that makes it seem all the greater.
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Post by Spidey on Dec 18, 2009 18:23:22 GMT
Mostly I'm bumping this thread because I want to hit 100 posts by next semester, but oh man I do love this book. I wish I'd read it before the crazy trip I took across the States so that I could've used it as a guide of sorts. I certainly would've added Mexico to my itinerary, at least.
AHA - THIS IS WHAT I SHALL WRITE ABOUT FOR THE NEXT TASK PIECE. Time for a re-read! On The Road fanfiction? Yes, I am that awesome(/not awesome).
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Post by Fire Bear on Dec 18, 2009 18:50:02 GMT
Who is this book by?
I probably won't remember to buy/borrow it but I'll ask anyway...
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Post by Spidey on Dec 18, 2009 19:01:43 GMT
Jack Kerouac! I can bring you my copy next time I see you, although I spilt something purple on it so half the pages are a bit weird-looking... ... This happens to lots of my books.
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Post by Fire Bear on Dec 18, 2009 19:23:47 GMT
That'd be great.
The purple thing is fine. I think some of my books have stains from food, chocolate, water and anything else which has been near them while I've been reading them.
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Post by Spidey on Dec 18, 2009 19:26:06 GMT
Merveilleux! I assume this will be Dr Zaze's Christmas/New Year/random party, then, unless we both get really bored in the next week and a half.
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Post by Fire Bear on Dec 18, 2009 19:39:17 GMT
Nah, I have work to do. Therefore, party first time you'll see me.
I say I have work to do to, though, and I'm on this...
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Post by Fire Bear on Jan 20, 2010 15:49:45 GMT
Finito!
It was pretty darn awesome. I thought it was like and autobiography and I didn't think I'd like it. Also, that introduction took me three days to read it bored me that much! But it was awesome.
I really dug it man.
And you know you told me that it's kinda obvious that he wrote it all in a oner? I agree: but only at certain points. Like when uses a lot of semi-colons and commas in a sentence. Or, for example, when they pick up the crippled hitchhiker, he describes him then goes on to talk about something else and mentions Alfred and says something along the lines of "oh, he as that hitchhiker, by the way". But otherwise, awesome.
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