Maggie Cassidy isn't exactly like all his others, but I really enjoyed it. Some interesting irony. And Dharma Bums was wicked.
i only read on the road. i found the other books to be a bit boring after a while. it all gets a bit much.
on the road and big sur is great too. im reading visions of cody right now, it's pretty good so far, i've also read the dharma bums and subterraneans, i love kerouac
Dharma Bums was awesome, subterraneans was good... Also really enjoyed 'Scripture of the Golden Eternity'...back in my acid days, although it's not really a novel... neo-buddhist poetics maybe?
Tristessa. I read most of his work for an American author project last year and fell in love. I'd do Kerouac. Ya know, if it wasn't for the whole dead thing and all.
I have read practically all of Kerouac. Big Sur and Lonesome Traveler have been my favourites. Big Sur digs deep into Kerouac's mind and illustrate the way a creative man's mind words in desolation extremely well. It also has great adventures, and the fast paced drunken writing in it is simply amazing. Lonesome traveler is probebly the book that is most directly about Kerouac and his travels and not about his friends and is a very refreshing read. Thinking about it, Desolation Angels is probebly the best description of the other "beats"... all of Kerouac's books are amazing reads.
i've only read on the road and the dharma bums and i really like both but i think dharma bums was the best of the two
I started with the Subterraneans, then On the Road, Big Sur(in rather quick succession, the latter being a mind fuck) and now i'm on Vanity of Dulouz. I reserved Dharma Bums at the library because I never get it when it's in. So that's next if I don't get impatient waiting and take out Maggie Cassady.