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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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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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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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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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