Jack Kerouac, A Windblown World

[JitterbugPerfume]

The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947--1945


I just started reading it

has any one read it ? comments?

[eleny]

1. I have a volume of his letters and read them from time to time

Like fine wine, I like to savor them.

I espcially liked reading the letters written when he was in Ozone Park and Richmond Hill, Queens. I grew up in the neighbrohood adjacent to those, Woodhaven, and can picture the locations and area.

[JitterbugPerfume]

2. his writing

is so profound at times that the only way it can be assimilated is by savoring it . I came to a real appreciating of him late in life. Now I can not get enough.

[eleny]

5. He was still alive when I discovered his books in the early 60s

He definitely feels contemporary even though America has changed. It's probably time to read his books again.

Btw, here's a digital collage I made about him. The man in the boxcar in the lower right is JK shortly before he died.



And did you see this article form last year?
"Beat classic for big screen
Jack Kerouac's beat generation classic On the Road is finally being made into a Hollywood film.

The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola secured the film rights almost 40 years ago but has never managed to get the project off the ground.

The script is being written by Jose Rivera, who wrote last year's hit The Motorcycle Diaries about Che Guevara's road trip through South America in the 1950s."
http://www.theage.com.au/news/film/beat-classic-for-big-screen/2005/08/07/1123353204694.html

[On the Road]

3. I Have a Book of Kerouac's Dream Journals

Some very long interesting story lines.

[eleny]

4. Ooooh, I never saw that

Is it still in print?