Desolation Angels
by Jack Kerouac
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Book Reviews of Desolation Angels
Book Review: Beautiful language for a lonely traveler
Summary: 5 Stars
Desolation Angels was the second Kerouac book I purchased, and it became my favorite book. In the first half of the book, the "Desolation" chapters explain Jack's feelings and mind more than in any other book and during an important period of his life. Some people say the book is schitzophrenic, having been started in Mexico City in 1956 and completed around 1962. However, I believe the result is not two books but half of the book being thoughts and feelings and the other half being a thoughtful man reflecting. In any case, the book is wonderful, and reading the entire novel does take some work but well worth the effort!Book Review: A journey into the mind of a true madman!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you've read On the Road, then this is a must read. It is a true journey into the mind of a madman. A more intimate look into the man that defined a generation of our parents, parents. As a younger reader of the generation today it is beneficial for us to see how people lived in past generations and take with us their experiences that in a sense you could not experience today. If I've taken anything from this book its the showing of the need for insanity in the life of Kerouac. And the need for constinent movement, not just in the physical sense but also in the mental sense of having his mind in constient movement.Book Review: "Well, on with the details, which is the life of it--"
Summary: 5 Stars
I covet my copy: a crazy paperback filled cover to cover with pronouns (and margin to margin with scribbles of my own). _Desolation Angels_ is a book for anyone who has sat about and watched _people_, itched to shed the grammatical ball and chain, or found themselves enthralled with 'beat' vernacular (whatever that is). Don't go looking for a plot, 'cause there isn't one: it is a story of the everyday... the meticulous... the monotonous... and it _can be_ just that if you're not fascinated by jack's lunatic need to describe people and their habits/situations/souls with such ravenous lucidity. Yea, I worship it.Book Review: It was as honest as if you had spoken to a saint
Summary: 5 Stars
I fell upon this book having never heard the title before. In the beginning it was hard to get into and long-that lasted not two days before I could not put it down-their was so much feeling and meaning behind the discriptive nature of Kerouac's words that it literally made you laugh and cry out loud. It's a novel that changes your life when you come to the realization that what youve known to be true up until this point represents such a small portion of the possibilities. IT SCREAMS LIFE-EXPERIECE ALL-SEEK TRUTH. My personal favorite river of the Kerouac ocean.Book Review: Heavenly Beat
Summary: 5 Stars
This will remain one of the sweetest, most loving books ever written in the least saccharine prose of the English language as Kerouac's alter-ego reflects from his lonely fire lookout on the essential goodness of man and then, like the two heavenly Taoist and Buddhist monks of Chinese literature, descends from his heaven to travel the physical world, bringing his spiritual insight to that world--desolation--populated by the spirits of the other--angels in all humanity, vaguely looking for that from which we came, that which is obscured by the mundane