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Heather
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Posted - Apr 26 2008 :  10:11:09 AM  Show Profile  Send catscharm74 a Yahoo! Message
Just wondering. I was given a collection and I find them interesting.

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Heather

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Sheryl-lyn
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Posted - Apr 26 2008 :  6:20:39 PM  Show Profile
I was thinking that I needed to read them again. It was a long time ago when I first read one of them. Maybe I am ready to really "get it" this time around.

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Posted - Apr 28 2008 :  05:42:23 AM  Show Profile
I think The Dharma Bums is his best. It's the least preoccupied with style, and has the most appealing characters.

I tried to read this as a teenager and couldn't get past the first chapter. But as an adult I love it.
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Jonni
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Posted - Apr 28 2008 :  05:46:25 AM  Show Profile
I read On the Road when I was in boarding school--we passed it around a group of us. We all thought we wanted to be Kerouac :) or follow the Dead (but not because we liked their music).

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Amy Grace
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Posted - May 29 2008 :  06:51:20 AM  Show Profile
Hey Heather - I have read all of his I think, and reread too....I think I read On the Road when I was ten and I was hooked!! I love rereading books at different times in my life because I get something new from them with each reading.
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Posted - Jun 01 2008 :  11:52:49 AM  Show Profile
Great summer reading. Makes me want to get out and have adventures.

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