Jack Kerouac - Big Sur BOOK REVIEW
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
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Reading the book for the fifth time! Love Kerouac for ever!
Oh man...your channel just keeps getting better and better. Thanks again for doing this.
Thank you for watching 👍
this is lirerally the best thing on earth. I just want to watch your reviews forever. thank you for doing this
Your reading felt like a personal slam poem to me, but with actual integrity
Hey there! Been following your reviews and I'm a big fan of them.. it's like getting kind of an opinion of some of my fav books by a completely stranger.
But this time, it was like talking to a friend. I'll tell you a little story.
When I was 14 I read this book, I don't know if i did understand a 100percent of it, but I just loved the way he described Big Sur. I felt in love of the idea of being there.
Last October, I did a road trip from Santa Monica to Monterey. Camping at Pfeiffer state park, stoping every 5min on the Pacific coast Highway, cuz as you said, it's just breathtaking, I couldn't even take it. That first sight at dawn, when is too dark to see the waves but the noise it's so loud it makes you shiver.
Back in Argentina, my home, listen at this, was like a little trip, back to Big Sur and all the joy I experienced being there. Thank you!
+Natali Romero You're very welcome, yes it's unbelievable isn't it? Glad you've experienced it full circle - thank you very much for watching Natali, all the best.
Great video! Perhaps you could do a trilogy!
Big Sur - Jack Kerouac
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch- Henry Miller
A Confederate General from Big Sur- Richard Brautigan
Two of my favorite writers lived in Big Sur, the other one being Henry Miller. Have you read Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch?
During my teenage Kerouac phase, Big Sur was my first and still my favorite of his books.
Sounds interesting. Just about to start On the Road. If it's my kind of thing I'll have to read this after.
As a Carmel native, the way you pronounce Nepenthe is hilarious to me.
First : oh Jeez, thank you so much bor the Big Sur in situ intro. It's easily one of my favorite places on earth. I'm longing to go back there.
Next on the book. I loved it (and it was way better than the very dispensable - imho - On The Road). Kerouac's writing, in that case, is perfect for what he's writing about : the delirium tremens description indeed leaves you breathless, all the nature depictions are incredibly graphic, and both rough and poetic, his going kind of insane also struck me hard (maybe you've read The Horla by Maupassant, a short story, it really made me think of it regarding to that aspect).
And finally, well, I remember having listened to taht song after finishinf the book : "All the way from San Francisco, as I chased the end of your road, cause I've still got miles to go, and I want to know my fate if I keep up this way ... you can't see a dream" ua-cam.com/video/JOcIaTmWJW4/v-deo.html
'Big Sur' is the first - and only, so far - Kerouac that I've read. It left an impression on me that I still find hard to accurately articulate and put my finger on. This review, though, is - like all of your reviews - a wonderfully engaging extrapolation of the work. I'm in no rush to continue reading his oeuvre, though 'The Dharma Bums' is next, when I do get round to it. Still no current interest to read 'On the Road'. Have you read it yet? If so, what do you think? Have you read 'TDB'?
Thanks for this channel, man, I really love it.
Oh, also, have you ever read any Maurice Blanchot? If not, give Thomas the Obscure a read, I'd love to see your take on it. I'm currently researching my masters MA dissertation thesis which will be a comparative analysis of Lispector, Pessoa and Blanchot. Go check him out, I think you'll love him.
Clifford, I'm a fan of your reviews. I think I've watched almost all of your reviews, some of them multiple times. I'm trying to get into reading myself, I'm 22 years old and I have been obsessed with music since I was 16, but reading is much different. It took me a lot of concentration to get past the first 10 pages of Oscar Wilde's A Picture Of Dorian Grey. I've read 3 books this year, The Wasp Factory, The Metamorphosis, In The Miso Soup, and half of Story Of The Eye. I have been buying some of the books on your channel you've mentioned, including Collected Fictions, The Passion According To G. H., The Book of Disquiet, Journey To The End of The Night, The 120 Days Of Sodom, The Conspiracy Against The Human Race, Funeral Rites, all on paperback. I am excited to get to all these books, but I'm not sure I'm a very good reader. None the less, I wanted to ask you, if I am just trying to get into reading, what books would you recommend for someone who is just trying to get into literature? I can always come back to those books I bought, they're becconing me to read them and I'm sure I will eventually if I don't die first. I thought I would start with 1984, but it's taken me forever to get through that book, I read about 24% of it on my kindle, but I put it down because it's difficult. That's been my experience with many books. PS. Swans is also one of my favorite bands.
+Ben Einhouse That's awesome Ben, don't worry about it - just keeeeeep going, that's the most important thing - It didn't hit me until 2666 by Roberto Bolaño around age 21. After that, it took off. Try him out, you may find his short stories helpful. Maybe I'll do a video on the subject too. Thanks for watching!
+Better Than Food: Book Reviews Thank you!
another great review Cliff !
i'm struggling through 'As I Lay Dying' by William Faulkner at the moment
maybe you can review a Faulkner novel soon
randomerde I loved As I lay Dying. It reminded me of Grapes of Wrath. The imagery in it was beautiful and the story was so sad. I can't wait to read more Faulkner.
would love to see a review of a Don Delillo novel, or Burroughs' Naked Lunch
Bringing the term "Book Review" to a whole new level.
Sweet man you are. Hola from Spain. Your reviews are a great discovery for me. I like your mixture of seriousness, wit and sarcasm. Thanks.
Ola - Thanks for watching!
You got me back into reading. Thank you so much.
+Bertrand DuGuesclin You are so welcome Bertrand, that's all I aim to do.
Your hair is getting crazier with every video.
I just started reading Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre but I'm definitely going to have to put big sur on the reading list
fleetwood238 How is Nausea? I have it but I haven't read it yet. Looking forward to it though.
Hey man, here in Vancouver, $8.50 for a beer is commonplace. It's ridiculous.
+Ryan Eakin Damn. A British drink is averages between £2.80 - £3.50, so in the US Dollar $4.07 - $5.09 if my money converter is correct. Wouldn't want to pay my equivalent of $8.50.
+mmikaylaambrose It's bullshit, man. This is why I usually just drink alone at home haha...
If you dont mind me asking, what do you do for a living?
Trying to phase out of video editing to do this full time.
When I read 'Big Sur' I was annoyed by the fact Kerouac used the word 'gloopy' about 67 times in the first 50 pages.
Yeah, he's not a great writer at all. I managed to plod through 'On the Road' despite really disliking it.
@@nietzschean3138 Yes, I hate Jack Kérouac. Here in Québec, the only reason they make a big deal about him is because he is French Canadian and is (still) worshipped in the US. They even published his original manuscript of On the Road (Sur le chemin), written in (bad) French, here recently...
@@nietzschean3138 congrats don't read him then you cretin
@@leadbellymidnightangel As if you're hurt and offended by a stranger not liking a dead writer. Seriously, think about that for a second. Evaluate your life.
Mosley I didn’t make any indication of being hurt or offended but to call him a bad writer is just slander when he’s considered one of the greatest American writers of all time lmao, you just sound ignorant and stupid at that point. Just because you don’t like a work doesn’t mean it’s shit or badly written, everyone has different taste, your original comment is just downright ignorant
The Beat Gen being in my top 5 bands of humans getting close to the absolute truth!
Where is located this place? Take care! Guillaume from France
I would love your views on Aldous Huxley! Just finished Brave New World, and I can honestly say that I'm a changed man.
Please review "Pedro Páramo" (Highly praised by Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges And Sustan Sontag),
"The Radetzky March" and also "Hangover Square"
that would be great..
Are you familiar with Saul Bellow's works? I promise they're the better than bullshit. Particularly Herzog, which resembles some character themes from John Williams - Stoner, although Herzog obviously came before Stoner. Both of-which are astounding books, in my opinion.
+Ben Lane oh dang those are the last two books i read, leved em both
Kerouac wrote and performed a number of ~Haiku that were produced with jazz music in the background.
2 of them seem fitting for the subject matter of this video :
-The Ocean
&
-San Francisco
Both easily found here on UA-cam.
Go on over and have a drink📖🗣️🔉🌊😎⛱️
I am reading C.G. Jung's The Red Book right now. All of what i have read in it so far have been fantastic. Why not google it and see if it could be a future review (if you are not familiar with it). Just a rekomendation from me ;)
Love your work dude.
Hey, have you read ''The Journal of a Disappointed Man'' by W.N.P. Barbellion? It's so... different, quirky, idiosyncratic, hateful, painful, funny, despondent, ahh... amazing! You better do it, it's your style, deffo your style.
Hey man I'm doing an english degree at univeristy, one paper looks only at heart of darkness, I really loved your review for it :) Have you ever read the novels Sula, Crying of Lot 49, play it as it lays or Ragtime? I don't read a whole lot, but I'm trying to read a bit more. I'm wondering what your input on those books would be :)
Loved Ragtime and Sula! Just read Sula two weeks ago. Incredible book! Ragtime was all over the place in such an interesting way, felt like such a departure from his Billy Bathgate! Hope your degree went well... just realizing that you posted this six year ago!
I would love if you could review (or at least check out, if you haven't already) Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata and/or The Woman in the Dunes by Kobe Abe. :D
I can tell you that woman in the dunes will certainly make an appearance, thanks for the recs
Glad to hear it :D You're very welcome
i know its yrs l8r, but don't forget to bookend it with henry miller's version.
Please update your film channel! 😔😔
did you ever review brautigan?
Kerouac is a great writer, but he could have become one of the greatest writers of all time on the level of Proust. Instead he decided to choose perfecting being a drunk. So much white magic poetry in Kerouac but as time went by darkness started covering up his light. I have a very low tolerance for drunks. Alcohol is an escape from optimism. Hangovers are self abuse like desire to get the Flu. Kerouac’s books became more Flu then jazz polka dots and sunbeams after On the Road. I like to feel good when i wake up.
Great review👌
Wow, this is fucking great. Crazy how unexpectingly intellegent Kerouac was at times. "One big Hank Williams song" is fantastic.
4:25 I am not amused.
your dad is right about rb
O', no ! The donations and attention have turned him happy...no more anguished reviews full of subtlety and catharsis, yo'...
Yup, the food at Nepenthe sucks.
+Better Than Food: Book Reviews You should check Witold Gombrowicz out!
Bradley Cooper
I'm jealous :
Do Thomas Wolfe, you Matthew McConaughey wannabe!
That hair though. too bad it takes so long to read and contemplate a book before you can review it.