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6 books to read while traveling

Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

I first read Dharma Bums when I was fifteen in a desert in Texas, and at the time it burned a hole in my head and I thought I’d found the answer to everything. In Kerouac’s traditional thinly-veiled autobiographical style, he writes about his time on the west coast of the USA with the environmentalist poet Gary Snyder.

There is wine drinking, there is group sex, there is Ginsberg reading Howl, there is mountain climbing in the high Sierras, there is fire lookout duty and living out of orange crates, and Kerouac writes about all of it with both a great ebullient love and a sort of sadness that’s hard to place. I no longer look to Kerouac as the God of Everything, but Dharma Bumsremains my favourite of his books, and if you haven’t read Dharma Bums and are planning a roadtrip across America, you should take it with you.

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