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ISBN: 0872860272

ISBN13: 9780872860278

Book of Dreams

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The definitive, unabridged edition of Jack Kerouac's autobiography as told through dreams. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Rated 5 stars
One of Kerouac's greatest books

You really have to read all of his other books, then get this one, to fully appreciate his subconcious dreamworld. I re-read this one every couple years...LOVE IT.

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Rated 5 stars
Some of Kerouac's best writing

Don't be fooled. This is not Kerouac's plans, visions or hopes. These are no less than his actual unexpurgated nightly dreams written in classic Kerouac prose. His style flourishes in what you might label short fictions of the night. Long rambling structures uninhibited by standard literary conventions, Book of dreams could in fact be one of his purest works. Perfect for his long `stream of consciousness' writing that Kerouac...

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"Must" reading for all Jack Kerouac fans and enthusiasts

Book Of Dreams is Jack Kerouac's written record of his dream life, a kind of parallel autobiography of his soul. A writer whose novels, beginning with On The Road, spoke for and to a whole generation of young men and women, Jack Kerouac was a man who, awake or asleep, struggled with the problems that beset all human relationships, and that makes his writings (and his dreams) as meaningful and compelling today as they were...

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Rated 4 stars
simple, uncompromising dream accounts

Kerouac's style is well adapted to the subject of dreams and his random testimonials that he wrote immmediately after waking up without giving himself time to think about what he was writing(more importantly no time to moralize or judge his dreams)are simple, scattered glimpses into the sleeping mind. This book inspired me to start keeping a dream journal in order to "fish out" my dreams before they disappeared from memory...

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Rated 4 stars
Interesting.

You really have to be in the right mood to enjoy this book. It is a verbatim account of Kerouac's dreams (literally, his sleeping dreams). Many of his dreams reflect characters and events in his novels, so it is a good idea to read a couple of those to go along with this. Overall, I enjoyed reading it, but just for fun. I didn't get anything special out of it. Just open it to any page and read a dream. They'll remind...

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