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Title: When I Was Cool : My Life at the Jack Kerouac School by Sam Kashner ISBN: 0-06-000566-1 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: A jumbled description of life with the aging Beats.
Comment: As the first poetry student at the Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics, Sam Kashner had an opportunity to write about some wonderfully unique experiences. Unfortunately, the book just isn't very well written.
There were three main things that bothered me about the writing.
1) The chronology was inconsistent. I had a very hard time keeping track of when things were happening, and often in the space of a few pages the description of events was out of order.
2) There are quite a few obscure (for me at least) movie and literary references. Because I hadn't seen the movie or read the book, I couldn't relate to the reference.
3) The author had a tendency to go off on tangents in the middle of telling a specific story, and then resume the original story. It was hard to follow what was going on.
One other issue I struggled with is how the author was able to remember very specific things that occurred almost 30 years ago. The book contains lengthy word-for-word conversations with the Beats, and I was often left wondering how the author could have remembered so much of these conversations. He didn't offer any clues as to how he remembered so much, which left me wondering how accurate it all is.
Rating: 1
Summary: Typing, not writing
Comment: The topic is fascinating, but this book is so poorly written and poorly edited that it's a wonder it was published at all. The author has few insights, writes repetitively, and seems to have forgotten details that occurred in his life almost 30 years ago when the events described are said to have taken place. I love the Beats and find both Ginsberg and Burroughs inspiring; it's a shame Kashner fails utterly to capture their importance as writers and people. Better to read them in the original than this shlock.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hip,..man..let's take it..ON The Road...
Comment: An inside look at lifestyles & literary machinations of early-- acredited "Beat" school luminaries,out West. Two-New--May-004 Bio on Jack Kerouac,by Paul Maher, & B.Kealing's.."Kerouac In Florida" plus Fall,004...D Brinkley's..Journals
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Title: The Beat Generation in San Francisco : A Literary Tour by Bill Morgan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg ISBN: 0872864170 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: 15 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Little Children : A Novel by Tom Perrotta ISBN: 0312315716 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Old School by TOBIAS WOLFF ISBN: 0375401466 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death by D. B. C. Pierre ISBN: 1841954608 Publisher: Canongate Books Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie by Ed Cray ISBN: 0393047598 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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