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This is the Conversation Forum for Jack Kerouac << Jack Kerouac On the Road >> Subject: Kerouac's other novels Posted Mar 22, 2001 by Ben The Hippy   Posting 1 Man, you gotta add the other novels to this entry... Dr Sax, for example, still blows me away every single time. And some of his poetry is pretty spectacular too... any cat who wants to dig Kerouac needs to get into the bop prosody thing, and there's no better place to start than by reading Mexico City Blues (242 choruses) which actually has a real full-on jazz structure to it. Wow! The most fastinating thing for me in Kerouac is trying to spot the history... the aspect of his work which was basically written fly-on-the-wall documentary, with all names changed to protect the guily-as-charged. Understand how that is blended with the epic flights of fancy and the fictional content yet still comes out smelling of truth and the soul and you realise how deep this stuff goes... Kerouac was a buhdda and a bad cat, poet and piss-artist... man, he could blow. Conversation list Most of the content on h2g2 is created by h2g2's Researchers, who are members of the public. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not those of the BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of any external sites referenced. In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click on the relevant button to alert our Moderation Team. Conversation list

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