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In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, California, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service. Taking only the Diamond Sutra for reading material, he intended to spend his time in deep contemplation and to achieve enlightenment.
Kerouac's experience on Desolation Peak forms the climax of his novel The Dharma Bums and has also been depicted in part 1 of Desolation Angels and a chapter in his nonfiction book Lonesome Traveler. None of these versions offers a full, true picture, however; and for that reason, Desolation Peak is essential listening.
The highlight of Desolation Peak is the journal he kept, starkly revealing the depth of his poverty, the extremity of his mood swings, and the ongoing arguments with himself over the future direction of his life, his writing, and faith. Along with the journal, he worked on a series of projects, including "Ozone Park," "The Martin Family," and "Desolation Adventure." Also included in this collection are "The Diamondcutter of Perfect Knowing," Kerouac's "transliteration" of the Diamond Sutra, his "Desolation Blues" and "Desolation Pops" poems, and assorted prose sketches and dreams.
©2022 Jim Sampas, Literary Executor, the Estate of Jack Kerouac (P)2022 HighBridge, a division of Recorded BooksLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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- De: Fredrik Backman, Elizabeth DeNoma - translator
- Narrado por: Stacy Gonzalez
- Duración: 1 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,052
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 990
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 990
Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator doesn’t get Backman’s satire or rhythm
- De joey1603 en 12-01-24
De: Fredrik Backman, y otros
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The Art of War
- De: Sun Tzu
- Narrado por: Aidan Gillen
- Duración: 1 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41,969
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34,779
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34,360
The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The actual book The Art of War, not a commentary
- De Nemo71 en 12-31-19
De: Sun Tzu
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Say No More
- De: Caroline Overington
- Narrado por: Anna Skellern
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,497
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,466
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,466
Who is Audrey Hoedemaker? It's a question her sister Maureen has heard more times than she can count, and she doesn't know what the short answer would be. Little sister, troubled teen, backpacker, musical theatre coach, con artist, childcare worker. Murderer. A tragic, traumatic childhood casts a long shadow on the Hoedemaker sisters. Maureen has worked hard to move beyond the violence of the past and build a good, honest life for herself. Audrey, however, just can't seem to do the same, careening from one state of chaos to another.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Seriously, that was the ending?
- De alicia in athens en 02-13-25
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Hitchhikers
- De: Ben H. Winters
- Narrado por: Therese Plummer
- Duración: 3 h y 27 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
Annie has always had high hopes for her future. But the reality of her life just isn’t measuring up. She loves her fiancé, Greg–doesn’t she? She’s going to get her degree and open her own business–won’t she? Then, a strange old woman shows up outside her house, and she seems to know a lot about Annie. An awful lot. Annie could tell the old woman to get lost. Yet there’s something about her Annie just can’t shake. And what she learns could change her life forever–but is it the life she envisioned?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intriguing
- De Curtis Hawk en 03-14-25
De: Ben H. Winters
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Master of Salt & Bones
- De: Keri Lake
- Narrado por: Stefanie Kay, Ryan West
- Duración: 17 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 662
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 625
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 625
When I was a little girl, I dreamed a handsome knight would come and rescue me from my wretched mother. He'd ride up on his white steed and break the curse I've been fated to carry since the day I was born. Funny how things changed over time, how the fairytale twisted into something far more crooked—and darker—than I ever imagined. In reality, my knight is scarred and broken, living alone in a castle of bones that overlooks the sea. He isn’t searching for me. He never was.
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 STARS
- De AudioObsessed en 03-12-23
De: Keri Lake
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Fahrenheit 451
- De: Ray Bradbury
- Narrado por: Tim Robbins
- Duración: 5 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32,991
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29,361
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29,317
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wish I Hadn't Cliff Noted This in High School
- De Joel en 03-27-17
De: Ray Bradbury
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The House on the Water
- A Novella
- De: Margot Hunt
- Narrado por: Taylor Schilling
- Duración: 2 h y 47 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 16,366
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 15,066
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 15,018
Every year, Caroline Reed takes a trip with her best friend, Esme Lamont. They’re usually accompanied by their spouses - but this year, everything’s changed. Esme has just gone through a bitter divorce, and Caroline's wondering if her own marriage is reaching its breaking point as she and her husband, John, cope with the discovery that their son has been abusing drugs. Still, the inseparable duo books a weeklong stay at a beach-front home in Shoreham, Florida, inviting Esme’s brother, Nick, and his new husband. After a blissful first night in the vacation home, tragedy strikes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Story
- De David M. Wilcox en 12-04-20
De: Margot Hunt
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He Who Fights with Monsters 2
- A LitRPG Adventure (He Who Fights with Monsters, Book 2)
- De: Shirtaloon, Travis Deverell
- Narrado por: Heath Miller
- Duración: 22 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 29,179
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 25,564
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 25,509
But Jason Asano is settling into his new life. Now, a contest draws young elites to the city of Greenstone to compete for a grand prize. Jason must gather a band of companions if he is to stand a chance against the best the world has to offer. While the young adventurers are caught up in competition, the city leaders deal with revelations of betrayal as a vast and terrible enemy is revealed. Although Jason seems uninvolved, he has unknowingly crossed the enemy’s path before.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Contrary to common reviews
- De Karen en 05-21-21
De: Shirtaloon, y otros
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Brain Damage
- De: Freida McFadden
- Narrado por: Megan Tusing
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,462
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,335
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,334
As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her...before he finishes the job he started.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Who Else Laughed, Cried, and Shuddered?
- De Jennifer Chichester en 09-16-22
De: Freida McFadden
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Mary Jane
- De: Amy Herzog
- Narrado por: Rachel McAdams, April Matthis, Brenda Wehle, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 16 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 252
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 243
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 243
Academy Award nominee Rachel McAdams stars in Mary Jane, a poignant and intimate drama following a single mother’s journey caring for her chronically ill young son. Set in New York City, the play unfolds in two parts—Mary Jane's small Queens apartment and a pediatric hospital. With unflinching honesty and unexpected humor, we witness Mary Jane's tireless devotion, her interactions with medical professionals, and her struggle to maintain her sense of self.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Amazing performance
- De Andrew Reynolds en 12-28-24
De: Amy Herzog
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The Grandmother
- De: Jane E. James
- Narrado por: Anna Cordell, Max Dinnen
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,747
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,680
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,680
Two little girls stand with their heads bowed in my living room. I’m told they’re my granddaughters. Daisy is nine, and Alice seven. Daisy is the spitting image of her mother. This is the first time I’ve met them since my daughter and I fell out after she married that waste of space, Vince. They’ve come to live with me because their mother — my daughter — was murdered. In her own home while they slept close by. I think Vince killed her. But the police can’t prove it. I’ve always known he was no good. He treated my daughter like dirt. I said he’d cheat on her — but she wouldn’t listen.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not too outlandish
- De Jackie H en 12-14-24
De: Jane E. James
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Big Sur
- De: Jack Kerouac, Aram Saroyan - foreword
- Narrado por: Ethan Hawke
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 232
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 193
In this 1962 novel, Kerouac's alter ego, Jack Duluoz, overwhelmed by success and excess, gravitates back and forth between wild binges in San Francisco and an isolated cabin on the California coast where he attempts to renew his spirit and clear his head of madness and alcohol. Only nature seems to restore him to a sense of balance. In the words of Allen Ginsberg, Big Sur "reveals consciousness in all its syntactic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Astonishing Ethan Hawke Performance
- De L E Stewart en 11-10-20
De: Jack Kerouac, y otros
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On the Road: The Original Scroll
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: John Ventimiglia
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 759
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 652
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 651
Though Jack Kerouac began thinking about the novel that was to become On the Road as early as 1947, it was not until three weeks in April 1951, in an apartment on West 20th Street in Manhattan, that he wrote the first full draft that was satisfactory to him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Classic Brought to Life
- De Sil A. en 11-25-16
De: Jack Kerouac
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Self-Portrait
- Collected Writings
- De: Jack Kerouac, Charles Shuttleworth - editor, Paul Maher Jr. - editor
- Narrado por: T. Ryder Smith
- Duración: 15 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
Jack Kerouac’s archive is vast. Throughout his life he was constantly writing, and he meticulously saved and catalogued his material. The result is that beyond the work published in his lifetime there has been a rich stream of posthumous writing that is far from tapped. This collection of previously unpublished writing culled from the Kerouac archive, and as a companion to Paul Maher Jr.'s Becoming Kerouac, spans Kerouac’s adult life, from a journal written at age seventeen to autobiographical reflections a few years before his death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A well curated collection.
- De Stewart king en 08-01-24
De: Jack Kerouac, y otros
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The Subterraneans
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
- Duración: 4 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3
Written over the course of three days and three nights, The Subterraneans was generated out of the same kind of ecstatic flash of inspiration that produced another one of Kerouac’s early classics, On the Road. Centering around the tempestuous romance and breakup of Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox—two denizens of the 1950s San Francisco underground—The Subterraneans is a tale of dark alleys and smoky rooms, of artists, visionaries, and adventurers existing outside mainstream America’s field of vision.
De: Jack Kerouac
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Doctor Sax
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
- Duración: 6 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 6
Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up in Kerouac’s own birthplace, the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. There, Doctor Sax, with his flowing cape, slouched hat, and insinuating leer, is chief among the many ghosts and demons that populate Jack’s fantasy world. Deftly mingling memory and dream, Kerouac captures the accents and textures of his boyhood in Lowell in this novel of a cryptic, apocalyptic hipster phantom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The narrator knows rhythm.
- De john in RI en 09-28-24
De: Jack Kerouac
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The Dharma Bums
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Ethan Hawke
- Duración: 7 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 798
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 688
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 683
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Lyrical Rendition
- De Michael E en 04-28-20
De: Jack Kerouac
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Big Sur
- De: Jack Kerouac, Aram Saroyan - foreword
- Narrado por: Ethan Hawke
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 232
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 193
In this 1962 novel, Kerouac's alter ego, Jack Duluoz, overwhelmed by success and excess, gravitates back and forth between wild binges in San Francisco and an isolated cabin on the California coast where he attempts to renew his spirit and clear his head of madness and alcohol. Only nature seems to restore him to a sense of balance. In the words of Allen Ginsberg, Big Sur "reveals consciousness in all its syntactic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Astonishing Ethan Hawke Performance
- De L E Stewart en 11-10-20
De: Jack Kerouac, y otros
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On the Road: The Original Scroll
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: John Ventimiglia
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 759
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 652
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 651
Though Jack Kerouac began thinking about the novel that was to become On the Road as early as 1947, it was not until three weeks in April 1951, in an apartment on West 20th Street in Manhattan, that he wrote the first full draft that was satisfactory to him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Classic Brought to Life
- De Sil A. en 11-25-16
De: Jack Kerouac
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Self-Portrait
- Collected Writings
- De: Jack Kerouac, Charles Shuttleworth - editor, Paul Maher Jr. - editor
- Narrado por: T. Ryder Smith
- Duración: 15 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
Jack Kerouac’s archive is vast. Throughout his life he was constantly writing, and he meticulously saved and catalogued his material. The result is that beyond the work published in his lifetime there has been a rich stream of posthumous writing that is far from tapped. This collection of previously unpublished writing culled from the Kerouac archive, and as a companion to Paul Maher Jr.'s Becoming Kerouac, spans Kerouac’s adult life, from a journal written at age seventeen to autobiographical reflections a few years before his death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A well curated collection.
- De Stewart king en 08-01-24
De: Jack Kerouac, y otros
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The Subterraneans
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
- Duración: 4 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3
Written over the course of three days and three nights, The Subterraneans was generated out of the same kind of ecstatic flash of inspiration that produced another one of Kerouac’s early classics, On the Road. Centering around the tempestuous romance and breakup of Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox—two denizens of the 1950s San Francisco underground—The Subterraneans is a tale of dark alleys and smoky rooms, of artists, visionaries, and adventurers existing outside mainstream America’s field of vision.
De: Jack Kerouac
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Doctor Sax
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
- Duración: 6 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 6
Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up in Kerouac’s own birthplace, the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. There, Doctor Sax, with his flowing cape, slouched hat, and insinuating leer, is chief among the many ghosts and demons that populate Jack’s fantasy world. Deftly mingling memory and dream, Kerouac captures the accents and textures of his boyhood in Lowell in this novel of a cryptic, apocalyptic hipster phantom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The narrator knows rhythm.
- De john in RI en 09-28-24
De: Jack Kerouac
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The Dharma Bums
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Ethan Hawke
- Duración: 7 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 798
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 688
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 683
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Lyrical Rendition
- De Michael E en 04-28-20
De: Jack Kerouac
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Visions of Cody
- Selections from the Novel
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Graham Parker
- Duración: 3 h y 7 m
- Versión resumida
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 46
Kerouac examines his own New York life in a collection of colorful essays. Always transfixed by Neal Cassady—here named Cody Pomeray—along with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, Kerouac also explores the feelings he had for a man who inspired much of his work. Transcribing taped conversations between members of their group as they took drugs and drank, Visions of Cody reveals an intimate portrait of people caught up in destructive relationships with substances, and one another, capturing the members of the Beat Generation in the years before any label had been affixed to them.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Annoying
- De A. Yerkes en 07-20-09
De: Jack Kerouac
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Desolation Angels
- A Novel
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
- Duración: 14 h y 5 m
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Originally published in 1965, this autobiographical novel covers a key year in Jack Kerouac’s life—the period that led up to the publication of On the Road in September of 1957. After spending two months in the summer of 1956 as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade Mountains of Washington, Kerouac’s fictional self Jack Duluoz comes down from the isolated mountains to the wild excitement of the bars, jazz clubs, and parties of San Francisco, before traveling on to Mexico City, New York, Tangiers, Paris, and London.
De: Jack Kerouac
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On the Road
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,463
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,806
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,800
Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road, Kerouac’s classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be “beat” and has inspired generations of writers, musicians, artists, poets, and seekers who cite their discovery of the book as the event that “set them free”.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Favorite Narration and a Wonderful Book
- De Guillermo en 09-17-09
De: Jack Kerouac
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Visions of Gerard
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
- Duración: 3 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
The first book in Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend, a novella detailing the writer’s early life as refracted through the prism of the untimely loss of his brother.
De: Jack Kerouac
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Wake Up
- A Life of the Buddha
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell
- Duración: 5 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
Originally written in 1955 and now published for the first time in audiobook form, Wake Up is Kerouac's retelling of the life of Prince Siddartha Gotama, who as a young man abandoned his wealthy family and comfortable home for a lifelong searchfor Enlightenment. Distilled from a wide variety of canonical scriptures, Wake Up serves as both a penetrating account of the Buddha's life and a concise primer on the principal teachings of Buddhism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I enjoyed Jacks biography of The Buddha
- De Joel en 07-10-23
De: Jack Kerouac
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The Soft Machine: The Restored Text
- The Nova Trilogy, Book 1
- De: William S. Burroughs
- Narrado por: Ramiz Monsef
- Duración: 6 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 101
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 93
In The Soft Machine, William S. Burroughs begins an adventure that will take us into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Breathe in Johnny -- Here Goes --
- De Darwin8u en 02-13-17
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Desolation Peak
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- R.T. See
- 06-12-23
For Kerouac devotees
Kudos to Rummel for bringing the works to life. That said, listeners get an expanded bit of the author’s journey and thinking and writing, all of which is good, but that didn’t make it an enjoyable listen. YMMV
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- MckyD’z
- 12-01-22
Kerouac at his most honest
Brilliantly haunting at times because we all know how it ends. Honest raw look into a genius suffering from a traumatic brain injury and addiction.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-29-24
Monologue
The narrators voice didn’t do justice to the smooth story telling narrative. It was jarring as opposed smooth
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-28-23
Don’t buy this book
I have really enjoyed previous Kerouac novels that I purchased from audible. This, however, should not be mistaken to be a story in any way, shape, or form. This is a tedious reading of a notebook, which the narrator chooses for some reason to stop in the middle of a sentence to read the page number of every page of the notebook as he turns the page. The only redeeming value is in the introduction, which provides a good summary of the entire book. The small portions that are pages from actual stories are the only reason that I can give the performance three stars and please do not get me started on how horrible it is to hear someone read the entirety of the Diamond Cutter of Perfect Knowing. If you really want all of these details, and you want to claim you read everything you found from Jack Kerouac, just get the written book. It’s the only way to look at material like this.
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