The Dharma Bums (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Jack Kerouac
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Author: Jack KerouacIllustrator: Jason
Introduction: Ann Douglas
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-31
ISBN: 0143039601
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Book Review: The Dharma Bums
Summary: 4 Stars
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac ***1/2
Both uplifting and boring. Kerouac's Dharma Bums was always one of his novels that depending on my current state I either like it or was bored. Reading this on a plane ride to Los Angeles, California it left me cold.
As always the book feels positive and is writing with excellent style, passion, and literary craftsmanship. It is inspiring and refreshing to read a piece about someone in search of bettering their spirituality while still being able to not pass judgement on others.
That is all great, but honestly this lags. The extent of detail placed on minor things that really don't effect the plot by any stretch create boring passages. This is the only Kerouac that ever bored me and it bores me to no extent.
While he wrote from his own experiences it seems to me that he sometimes became lost in something that was really only interesting to him at the time. As honest and heartfelt as that is that doesn't make it any more entertaining.
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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.General Books
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