Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Desolation Angels
Book Review: A journey into the mind of a true madman!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you've read On the Road, then this is a must read. It is a true journey into the mind of a madman. A more intimate look into the man that defined a generation of our parents, parents. As a younger reader of the generation today it is beneficial for us to see how people lived in past generations and take with us their experiences that in a sense you could not experience today. If I've taken anything from this book its the showing of the need for insanity in the life of Kerouac. And the need for constinent movement, not just in the physical sense but also in the mental sense of having his mind in constient movement.Book Review: Beautiful language for a lonely traveler
Summary: 5 Stars
Desolation Angels was the second Kerouac book I purchased, and it became my favorite book. In the first half of the book, the "Desolation" chapters explain Jack's feelings and mind more than in any other book and during an important period of his life. Some people say the book is schitzophrenic, having been started in Mexico City in 1956 and completed around 1962. However, I believe the result is not two books but half of the book being thoughts and feelings and the other half being a thoughtful man reflecting. In any case, the book is wonderful, and reading the entire novel does take some work but well worth the effort!Book Review: Brilliant Jack, but not his best
Summary: 4 Stars
This is Jack doing what Jack does well. I did not get the same amount of excitement from it as I did from On The Road. It was a satisfying read, but he did better.Book Review: Desolation Angels is a marvel of beat mystique.
Summary: 5 Stars
Kerouac's travels are chartered in this sweet selection of jazz and sex and cannot be criticized as any less than the ultimate experience of the nomad sociolagy. This novel is laughter. This novel is tears. This novel seeks conventialism and repriamands it with a phycedelic explosion of the senses. Kerouac's writing is complete ecstacy comparable to the garden of eden and unrelenquished nirvanaBook Review: Desolation indeed...
Summary: 5 Stars
From the moment I opened On the Road, I knew Jack Kerouac
wasn't just any author. A new spirit and new feelings, stirred
up by mere words...It doesn't happen often enough.
In that respect, Desolation Angels is typical Kerouac. The
incredibly flowing mad descriptions and details, his friends
as real as the stars, beautifully rendered real personalities.
From his isolation as a fire lookout, long time to be sober
for Kerouac, he jumps back into his old life...Drinking
screaming talking crazy friends Ginsberg Cassady et al. A
trip to Mexico, living above an old junky, Mexican women,
writing. Friends come to Mexico...you can imagine.
Tangier and William Burroughs, another junky...Kerouac helps
him, typing the manuscript of Naked Lunch (Nude Dinner, he
calls it, just like the other pseudonyms he assigns...)...
Back to the States, more of the wonderful same, always fresh
and exciting...But in the end, I was only surprised. He left
his Desolation Angels.