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Andrew Eiden
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Jack Kerouac
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From the most famous of the Beat writers and the author of On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Kerouac’s intoxicating love story of two young bohemians
Written over the course of three days and three nights, The Subterraneans was generated out of the same kind of ecstatic flash of inspiration that produced another one of Kerouac’s early classics, On the Road.
Centering around the tempestuous romance and breakup of Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox—two denizens of the 1950s San Francisco underground—this is a tale of dark alleys and smoky rooms, of artists, visionaries, and adventurers existing outside mainstream America’s field of vision.
Loosely based on Kerouac’s own life and peopled with analogues of real-life friends, including William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, and Neal Cassady, The Subterraneans is a vivid and breathless masterwork of Beat literature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 236
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 197
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5 out of 5 stars
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- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 5
This book presents the formative years in the life of Jack Duluoz—Kerouac’s alter ego—beginning with his high school experiences as a sporting jock in small-town New England and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship. Just as Jack’s glamorous new adult life begins, so does World War II, and he joins the US Navy to travel the world. The more he experiences, the more he realizes the limits of his former plans and decides to and return to New York, where he collides with the start of the Beat movement—and a riot of drugs, sex, and writing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A brilliant read.
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 6
Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up in Kerouac’s own birthplace, the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. There, Doctor Sax, with his flowing cape, slouched hat, and insinuating leer, is chief among the many ghosts and demons that populate Jack’s fantasy world. Deftly mingling memory and dream, Kerouac captures the accents and textures of his boyhood in Lowell in this novel of a cryptic, apocalyptic hipster phantom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The narrator knows rhythm.
- De john in RI en 09-28-24
De: Jack Kerouac
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Big Sur
- De: Jack Kerouac, Aram Saroyan - foreword
- Narrado por: Ethan Hawke
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 236
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In this 1962 novel, Kerouac's alter ego, Jack Duluoz, overwhelmed by success and excess, gravitates back and forth between wild binges in San Francisco and an isolated cabin on the California coast where he attempts to renew his spirit and clear his head of madness and alcohol. Only nature seems to restore him to a sense of balance. In the words of Allen Ginsberg, Big Sur "reveals consciousness in all its syntactic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Astonishing Ethan Hawke Performance
- De L E Stewart en 11-10-20
De: Jack Kerouac, y otros
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Vanity of Duluoz
- An Adventurous Education, 1935-46
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 5
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This book presents the formative years in the life of Jack Duluoz—Kerouac’s alter ego—beginning with his high school experiences as a sporting jock in small-town New England and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship. Just as Jack’s glamorous new adult life begins, so does World War II, and he joins the US Navy to travel the world. The more he experiences, the more he realizes the limits of his former plans and decides to and return to New York, where he collides with the start of the Beat movement—and a riot of drugs, sex, and writing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A brilliant read.
- De James DeYoung en 12-24-24
De: Jack Kerouac
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The Dharma Bums
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Ethan Hawke
- Duración: 7 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 811
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 694
First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful and influential novels. The story focuses on two ebullient young Americans - mountaineer, poet, and Zen Buddhist Japhy Ryder, and Ray Smith, a zestful, innocent writer - whose quest for Truth leads them on a heroic odyssey, from marathon parties and poetry jam sessions in San Francisco's Bohemia to solitude and mountain climbing in the High Sierras.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lyrical Rendition
- De Michael E en 04-28-20
De: Jack Kerouac
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Desolation Peak
- Collected Writings
- De: Jack Kerouac, Charles Shuttleworth - editor
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 18
In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, California, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service. Taking only the Diamond Sutra for reading material, he intended to spend his time in deep contemplation and to achieve enlightenment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Kerouac at his most honest
- De MckyD’z en 12-01-22
De: Jack Kerouac, y otros
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On the Road
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,478
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,820
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,814
Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road, Kerouac’s classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be “beat” and has inspired generations of writers, musicians, artists, poets, and seekers who cite their discovery of the book as the event that “set them free”.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Favorite Narration and a Wonderful Book
- De Guillermo en 09-17-09
De: Jack Kerouac
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Wake Up
- A Life of the Buddha
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell
- Duración: 5 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
Originally written in 1955 and now published for the first time in audiobook form, Wake Up is Kerouac's retelling of the life of Prince Siddartha Gotama, who as a young man abandoned his wealthy family and comfortable home for a lifelong searchfor Enlightenment. Distilled from a wide variety of canonical scriptures, Wake Up serves as both a penetrating account of the Buddha's life and a concise primer on the principal teachings of Buddhism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I enjoyed Jacks biography of The Buddha
- De Joel en 07-10-23
De: Jack Kerouac
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Mexico City Blues
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
- Duración: 2 h y 30 m
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A long poem in Kerouac’s freewheeling and spontaneous improvisational style, Mexico City Blues is a unique epic of sound, rhythm, and religion. Called superb sensory meditations, the poetry takes in life, death, and spirituality but roams widely across continents and cultures. Memories, fantasies, dreams, and surrealistic free association are all lyrically combined in the loose format inspired by jazz and the blues.
De: Jack Kerouac
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Cities of the Red Night
- The Red Night Trilogy, Book 1
- De: William S. Burroughs
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 186
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 162
From one of the founders of the beat generation and the 1960s counterculture comes this opening novel of a series available now in audio for the first time. An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his execution; and the world's population is infected with a radioactive epidemic. These stories are woven together in a single tale of mayhem and chaos.
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5 out of 5 stars
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absolutely timeless. thank you Ray Porter!
- De Amazon Customer en 10-21-20
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Lonesome Traveler
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
- Duración: 6 h y 30 m
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In his first autobiographical work, Jack Kerouac reveals exhilarating stories of the years he spent traveling, while writing his acclaimed novels. His journeys took him from California deserts crisscrossed by train tracks to the bullfights of Mexico to the Beat nightlife of New York City and across the Atlantic to Paris, Morocco, and London. He also writes about relationship, jobs, and the nature of life on the road. Here are echoes of landscapes that appear in some of his novels, including The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels.
De: Jack Kerouac
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The Buddhist Years
- Collected Writings
- De: Jack Kerouac, Charles Shuttleworth - editor
- Narrado por: T. Ryder Smith
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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From a young age Kerouac was a spiritual thinker and questioner, and he always considered himself a spiritual writer. Buddhism gave more meaning to Jack’s work as a writer: he was working not for personal accomplishment and glory but for human betterment. And Buddhism justified his lifestyle: with its vision of the material world as empty and illusory, he was free to do what he wanted.
De: Jack Kerouac, y otros
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And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
- De: Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 4 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 472
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 400
More than 60 years ago, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, two novice writers at the dawn of their careers, sat down to write a novel about the summer of 1944, when one of their friends killed another in a moment of brutal and tragic bloodshed. Alternating chapters, they pieced together a hard-boiled tale of bohemian New York during World War II, full of drugs and obsession, art and violence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pre-Beat Lit, instant classic!
- De Jeffrey A. Pierce en 08-20-09
De: Jack Kerouac, y otros
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The Dharma Bums
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Allen Ginsberg
- Duración: 2 h y 51 m
- Versión resumida
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 295
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 216
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 217
Two friends in 1950s San Francisco Bohemia explore Buddhism Zen - hipster style. On the road to finding Dharma, or truth, the story's narrator, Raymond Smith comes to a spiritual roadblock. Smith, based on Kerouac himself, discovers a role model in his friend Japhy Ryder, modeled after the real poet-Buddhist Gary Snyder. This autobiographical novel is one of Kerouac's most popular, and has served as an inspiration to the beat culture, hippies, and dharma seekers since the 1950s.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Don't buy abridged versions of novels.
- De Ronald C. Wagner en 12-28-09
De: Jack Kerouac
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Answered Prayers
- De: Truman Capote
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
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General2.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 5
Tracing the career of a writer of uncertain parentage and omnivorous erotic tastes, Answered Prayers careens from a louche bar in Tangiers to a banquette at La Côte Basque, from literary salons to high-priced whorehouses. It takes in calculating beauties and sadistic husbands along with such real-life supporting characters as Colette, the Duchess of Windsor, Montgomery Clift, and Tallulah Bankhead. Above all, this malevolently funny book displays Capote at his most relentlessly observant and murderously witty.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Warning: Audible has heavily censored this book.
- De Piwacket en 04-04-25
De: Truman Capote
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Visions of Gerard
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
- Duración: 3 h y 27 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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The first book in Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend, a novella detailing the writer’s early life as refracted through the prism of the untimely loss of his brother.
De: Jack Kerouac
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Myrrh
- De: Polly Hall
- Narrado por: Charlie Albers
- Duración: 8 h
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Myrrh has a goblin inside her, a voice in her head that tells her all the things she's done wrong, that berates her and drags her down. Desperately searching for her birth-parents across dilapidated seaside towns in the South coast of England, she finds herself silenced and cut off at every step. Cayenne is trapped in a loveless marriage, the distance between her and her husband growing further and further each day. Longing for a child, she has visions promising her a baby.
De: Polly Hall