Big Sur
1962 • 192 pages

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Average rating3.4

15

Kerouac's nervous breakdown, takes you up and down into the twists and turns of his inner most honest thoughts. Thoughts of death and dying and life and living. The triumphant beat generation comes to an end. The bouts of drinking and madness turned to thinking and sadness.

A requiem for the kind of life that takes no no for an answer that never stops to think, but just cruises down the highway at a 100 mph.

It is uncanny, the amount of effort to break the madness and the futility of it all and to have the feeling that this book could have been written now. In a world of sad millennials who are dissapointed about their life and opportunities and the people who try to break the mould.

I loved it and binged it, as my generation does.

January 31, 2018Report this review