The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Dharma Bums
Book Review: CLIMB THE MOUNTAIN!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been to California and the Sierra Nevada Mountains, but after reading this thought provoking novel I realized I have never been there. Before I was just going through the motions of a tourist. Now when I go back(hopefully this Summer)I am really going to experience the beauty of the mountains and nature. This novel stirred up some very powerful emotions inside of me such as living life how I want to live it, not how everybody else wants me to live it (Up to this point in my life I am not sure I have been doing that). If it was not currently Winter I would be heading toward the American West with my rucksack, ready to climb the mountain. Read this novel I guarantee you it will be a rewarding experience.Book Review: Close to Real Matter!
Summary: 5 Stars
The sense of nature Kerouac captured in this book is an important message in this work-shop-consume world. And he conveys so much appetite for life! I especially enjoyed the Gary Snyder character: "The closer you get to real matter...(rocks, mountains, etc.) the more spiritual the world is." I"M READING IT AGAIN!Book Review: Conceited book
Summary: 1 Stars
Had to offset the praise handed down by so many people for Karourac's writings. Very overrated as a writer. This book is filled with the resemblance of substance, but has nothing in it. It is a contradiction of itself.Book Review: Definitive clues on how to be beat and know God.
Summary: 4 Stars
This is an absolute must for anyone who's found that Kerouac
Knows...Mix a bit of Buddha in with his wild prose and
innate fondness for cheap wine and wandering -- then throw
it around the skies of North America -- you've got the real
journeyman's bible. On the Road did start the whole thing;
no denying. But this is where Jack shines and shows it all
all all, When he's writing his Golden Scriptures in the snow
and just being in a way we've forgotten how. Kerouac IS the
Teacher, and if you pick this spiritual textbook up you will
start to see everything that's been on your soul.
The man can tell you where he and his brothers and therefore
humanity took the turns. When you flip through this book on
a rainy afternoon of your own Dharma discovery EVERY page is
making you agree. You'll yes your way through and stop
wishing for the answers. Close your eyes and dive into his
madman's world of angels on Mountaintops and in the city
streets...I Know you won't regret.
Holy.Book Review: Deserves to be as famous as "On the Road"
Summary: 5 Stars
On the Road, Kerouac's other acknowledged masterpiece, was east coast, new york feel and about squeezing every ounce of sense, touch, smell and experience out of life. This is his west coast, buddhist, pre-hippie mirror of that more famous book. Suffused with eastern thought, nature and trends that were to overtake america a decade later, this book is every bit the equal of On the Road.