Big Sur

[Arcadia]

It´s my third Kerouac book.
I founded that there is someone more crazy than myself in relation to the sea.
I´m near the middle.

(the book was edited in 2003 as "the first spanish version", is that possible?)

[e_dog]

haven;t read the novel yet, but i read the peom Sea that is contained therein.

how does Kerouac come across en espanol?

[Arcadia]

the poem Sea is at the end of the book and it is not translated. The rest of the book has been translated to spanish, somehow.

[Artguy]

Jack really dug into the depths of his pain for this one....read it a few years bck sitting on a beach in Cuba knocking back atrocious amounts of rum.....

[Arcadia]

"Cuba and atrocious amounts of rum", well... without "atrocious amounts of" it sounds really good!
I lost (in my home) the book last tuesday. It´s strange (or not, it´s not the first time I can´t find things for some days). I couldn´t find it yet. There must be somewhere or maybe someone took the book without noticing it. So, I´m still in the middle.

[Arcadia]

I found the book again!! (I was between undone school work that I have to finally finish this week).

[Marksman45]

Big Sur was a pretty intense read. Of course, I read the last third of it in one night drinking way too much coffee... I was convinced that I was going crazy by the end of it, but that was just the caffeine

It's a good book. I rank it 3 out of the 4 JK novels I've read (4- On the Road, 2 - the Dharma Bums, 1 - Dr. Sax. Yeah, OTR's at the bottom)

[Arcadia]

I finished the book! (It made me not want to drink alcohol in two weeks!).
I like it. I marked some parts.

Now I HAVE to read (maybe later is possible that I also WANT to read it) Othello, Anthony & Cleopatra, El Banquete and El Cantar de los Cantares...

[e_dog]

what did you like about the book?

how does it compare w/ other Kerouackian novels?

[Arcadia]

What I liked: the narrator was visible tired.

I read On the road and The Dharma bums ten years ago. I have bad memory and I don´t have these books near me (I lend On the road to my friend denis and The Dharma... was from the public library). I remember that I liked The Dharma Bums very much when I read it, more than On the road. I would like to read it now again

[e_dog]

your message made me reflect on how long it has been since i read OTR and it must be at least nine years since the last, around ten since the first time reading On The Road. wow.

i think that book totally wrecked my life. or at least, my liver and my lungs.

P.S. and when i am an (in)famous author, that can be a quote appended to future new editions of OTR as a blurb.

[Arcadia]

mmmmmm... I already answer this...