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The Dharma Bums
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Ronald C. Wagner
- 12-28-09
Don't buy abridged versions of novels.
This is just not the true Kerouac experience. You need the whole thing. It is a waste of money.
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- Lauren Mellen
- 07-23-18
The Audio Quality is Terrible
I love this story but this is a really old copy so it sounds terrible. It actually hurts your ears to listen to it. Such a shame because this is an incredible book.
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- Ballzdeep
- 03-22-18
great book needs to be recorded by someone else.
The book is great and hearing Allen Ginsberg read it should be awesome but with all of Allen's talents, his voice and reading this at his age when he recorded this just does not match the manly bravado which was Jack Kerouac. It would be great to get a more representative voice that feels like Jack telling me his story.
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- Benbarian
- 05-21-12
As it should be done
What made the experience of listening to The Dharma Bums the most enjoyable?
Brilliant story, brilliant narration
Have you listened to any of Allen Ginsberg???s other performances before? How does this one compare?
Ginsberg is the perfect narrator for this piece. There are probably narrators more qualified with better voices and better meter, but Ginsburg lived with Kerouac, danced and sang and sprouted mad poetry with him, he is Alvah Goldbook is the book.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- S. Craig
- 10-23-03
jack at his best
on the road part two. with lots of buddism in the mix, just enough humor to keep it from being boring. mind expanding beat litt at its finest.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Peter
- 08-22-03
This is not
And I hated Ginsberg's overly accentuated reading. It's a short book but I simply could not get through it. Beware!
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- Karen B
- 04-21-19
Abridged?
Where does it say that this is an abridged version of the book? That doesn't help me at all since I buy audiobooks for school to listen to as I read along in the actual book. It kept skipping sections, some that were kind of important.
And as much as I love Allen Ginsberg as a poet in his own right, it was very distracting to have him reading Kerouac's work. I kept picturing Ginsberg as Ray Smith when it should have been Kerouac himself. I had to turn it off and finish the book without the audio.
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- Michelle Prats
- 08-04-18
Narration was hard
Great book but the narration was really hard to listen to. I wouldn’t listen to it again.
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- A User
- 02-26-13
Classic BS
What would have made The Dharma Bums better?
A time machine. Maybe this work was cutting edge back in the day but now it just sounds like some hipster doofus babbling on about drinking hooch on the street and chasing tail with his "art" friends. Please, man, I live it, I don't need to hear about it from the sorry likes of you. LAME!
What could Jack Kerouac have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Stop it with the crystal meth already Jacky! Where's the arc? How 'bout a little element of story thrown in to your jibber-jabbering? Oh that's a stylistic thing? Why the F didn't you say so?
Would you be willing to try another one of Allen Ginsberg’s performances?
I like his nasally old man voice. I'm not sure if I downloaded in the wrong quality or what but it sounded like he was at the bottom of a tennis balls tube with the lid still on it.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Boredom. After 1.5 hours I was just saying to myself repeatedly "I think I can, I think I can...finish this stupid book"
Any additional comments?
Bleh!
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- Delsheree D. Gladden
- 03-27-18
Hmmm
I picked this book up after hearing it mentioned in another book, and I guess I was expecting something different. There wasn't really a story so much as a wandering account of the main character's life. The Buddhist concepts seemed rather vague and the narrator was difficult to listen to. I found myself struggling to get through it. I'm sure this is a great fit for some but it wasn't my cup of tea.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Reece M.
- 11-11-20
Can't hear it
The audio may as well have been recorded in a microwave while the narrator screamed the words from outside. Pretty annoyed as I can't register anything in the car.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-08-22
Vintage Kerouac - descriptive and entertaining
Jack Kerouac's running narrataive style of writing can be hard to follow at first, but once you get used to it, it flows easily.
He has a whimsical way of describing things as they happen, and a charming look at life. The description of his few months spent as a lookout on Mt Desolation was a highlight for me.. it really brought the experience to life with all the tedium, occasional deprivation and moments of great joy.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-18-21
Blessed
Beautiful privilege to have his kindred soul read to us capturing the essence perfectly
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- Anonymous User
- 08-13-19
Beware of Ginsberg!
This isnt my favourite of Jack's work, but fans will know what their in for and it provides plenty of his poetic ramblings. I have found myself drinking more green tea after finishing this.
When I saw this was narrated by Ginsberg I was really excited, but I feel though he obviously gets Jack, and the work better than anyone, the recording quality and reading itself was detrimental. I had to fuck with eq settings to be able to listen to this properly , and often the Ginsberg accent and accents of syllables got a little too much.
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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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Performance5 out of 5 stars 32
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