Jack Kerouac
 

A thread for everything and anything Kerouac. Favourite book. Favourite line. Favourite character. Anything. Especially which of his books would you like most to be turned into a film?

The Dharma Bums should be turned into a movie. That is the only book I like from him.

All hail The Dharma Bums. My favorite character is def. Japhy Ryder (Gary Snyder)......maybe some favorite lines later.....I have to go.

I've only read On the Road. Loved it. Recently bought a whole bunch of his books from a secondhand bookstore, around 10 or so. Also what I thought was neat, was that someone had owned the whole bunch of books I now own, and wrote on the first page or so when they started the book and when they finished reading it, and also where they were when they read it. Same name in every book. Different locations, such as Sydney, Portland - Oregon, numerous places. Must of been a traveller, not unlike the characters in Kerouacs stories.

I look forward to reading all of them. I just may start Dr. Sax tonight.

i love him. read all the books, love em all

Read On the Road, which was fantastic, and the Dharma Bums, which was very good.

On the Road is finally becoming a movie. Directed by Walter Salles & produced by Francis Ford Coppola, it's slated for release in 2007.

Read Tristessa to get the real meat.

oh, there's this one poem of his i like and i can't remember the title or if it even had one, but here it goes:
i am god.

That's good news! Can't wait.

MACDOUGAL STREET BLUES

CANTO TRES (by Jack Kerouac):

Lets forget the strollers
Forget the scene
Lets close our eyes
Let me instruct Thee
Here is dark Milk
Here is Sweet Mahameru
Who will Coo
To you Too

As he did to me
One night at three
When I w k e i t
P l e e
Knelt to See
Realit ee
And I said
'Wilt thou protect me
for 'ver?'

And he in his throatless
deep mother hole
Replied ' H o m '
(Pauvre Ange)
Mahameru
Tathagata of Mercy
See
He
Now
In dark escrow



In the middleless dark
of eyelids' lash obliviso
So
Among rains of Transcendent
Pity
Abides since Ever
Before Evermore ness
Or thusness Imagined
O Maha Meru

O Mountain Sumeru
O Mountain of Gold
O Holy Gold
O Room of Gold
O Sweet peace
rememberance
O Nava lit yuku
Of sweet cactus
Thorn of No Time
- Ply me on ward
like boat
thru this Sea
Safe to Shore
Ulysses never Sore
- Bless me Gerard
Bless thee, Living
I shall pray for all
sentient human
& otherwise sentient
beings here & everywhere
now -

No names
Not even faces
One Pity
One Milk
One Lovelight
s a v e

Is Walter Salles a good director? I don't want to be completely dissapointed about a movie that could be so good.

I like Kerouac. I don't want to say love him. He's a good writer; very idealistic. Interesting every once in a while, but might be dangerous if given too much attention.

i just got town and the city las week and am about 200 or so pages in. It had a slwo start but im Liking it now. I'll have to track down dharma bums next.

I read On the Road recently and loved it. My favorite passages were the ones describing the jazz musicians, like the piece about the George Shearing show.

Wasn't that great! He describes music brilliantly. Better than any critic I've ever read.

Really? That's fantastic news. I hope it's done well, though, with the right actors and the screenplay written well.

I'm amazed it's taken them this long.

the motorcycle diaries was a very good film , i think salles will do a good job of it.......

not too many character actors that could talke that except for maybe depp or ps hoffman

I think Depp would do a great job, but the response would be overshadowed by superficiality. So I hope they go more low key, but not low key enough that they're no name actors.

Johnny Depp simultaneously makes everything sickeningly popular, and remarkably good. I say it's worth it.

johnny depp has been great in every movie i've seen him in. he's one of those guys who can play any part.