The Dharma Bums
by:
Ann Douglas (author)
Jack Kerouac (author)
The Dharma Bums was published one year after On the Road made Jack Kerouac a celebrity and a spokesperson for the Beat Generation. Sparked by his contagious zest for life, the novel relates the adventures of an ebullient group of Beatnik seekers in a freewheeling exploration of Buddhism and the...
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The Dharma Bums was published one year after On the Road made Jack Kerouac a celebrity and a spokesperson for the Beat Generation. Sparked by his contagious zest for life, the novel relates the adventures of an ebullient group of Beatnik seekers in a freewheeling exploration of Buddhism and the search for Truth.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143039600 (0143039601)
ASIN: 143039601
Publish date: October 31st 2006
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Classics,
Novels,
Travel,
Literature,
American,
Religion,
Philosophy,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Buddhism
Series: Duluoz Legend
Another re-read. Still can't get into Kerouac.
At the risk of offending the "Beat Generation", I found this book to be quite a slog.There's lots of talk of Buddhist principles, which is cool; and hitchhiking all over the place, which is also cool. There's free love, and some other naughty stuff. While that sounds like a cool mix, I just found t...
One star because the cover was awesome.
Slap a few rhyming words together vaguely associated with your intended meaning and call it philosophical poetry. That's my problem with some of the beat poets, whom I blame for the crap classic rock songwriters of the 60s and 70s passed off as lyrics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0iuaxvkXv4But I...
Kerouac really doesn't care about plot as much as discussing various ideas with a mediocre amount of depth. In many ways, this is the story of Japhy more than Ray, but the focus on Ray's various moments of "enlightenment" and no real character arcs for either man left me yearning for something to ha...
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