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Mexico City blues Jack Kerouac · 1959 · ★ 3.7 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate A series of poems deals with music, life, religion, literature, dreams and mortality. Shares: Beats, Beat generation

Jack Kerouac Tom Clark · 1984 · 254p · ≈ 8h · Moderate All the components of the Jack Kerouac legend are here: the excesses of alcohol and drugs; the soul-searching; the characters - Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Lucien Carr, John Clellon Holmes and William Burroughs, Jack's mother, Gabrielle, and the other women in Kerouac's life. There is also a record of the travels that became the basis for On the Road and Visions of Cody,… Shares: Beats, Beat generation

Go John Clellon Holmes · 1952 · ★ 4.0 · 311p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Go is a 1952 semi-autobiographical novel by John Clellon Holmes. (Holmes referred to the book as a roman à clef.) It is considered to be the first published novel depicting the Beat Generation. Set in New York, it concerns the lives of a collection of characters largely based on the friends Holmes used to hang around with in the 1940s and 1950s in Manhattan. An underworld of drug-fueled parties,… Shares: Beats, Beat generation

Big Sur Jack Kerouac · 1962 · ★ 3.8 · 210p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Big Sur is a novel written by Jack Kerouac, that was published in 1962. The books perspective is told from Kerouac's alter ego Jack Dulouz. The novel describes Kerouac's frustration that he has with his fame of being a writer, and how he goes to his friends cabin on Big Sur to get away from the madness of every day existence. The novel also describes Kerouac's mental state of being, and his… Shares: Beats, Beat generation

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