Book: Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
Album: None
I read this book really fast. I think I started it on Sunday and was done with it mid-flight Wednesday. It was very enjoyable. Kerouac showed the dual nature that I seem to have: a desire to be alone in the wilderness and be out with my friends at parties. The Buddhism in the story seemed a little thin, he never really explained what the various ideas and terms meant. Yet, I think the book would have lost momentum if Kerouac explained each school of Buddhism. Overall, it was a fun, fast, and entertaining read.
Since I read the book so quickly I did really listen to an album or anything that captured the mod of it. I have various songs that I listened to a fair amount during the time I read it, so here they are:
- Flying Lotus - Roberta Flack
- Madlib - In Jah Hands (Dillas Lament)
- Miles Davis - So What
- John Coltrane - Giant Steps
- Charles Mingus - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
- Chitti Babu - Ragam: Kharaharapriya
1 comment:
Bums is my favorite Kerouac novel! Maybe you'd appreciate my Kerouac-obsessed blog: www.thedailytbeatblog.blogspot.com.
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