Book of Dreams [Paperback]

Jack Kerouac (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: City Lights Publishers; 1st edition (June 1961)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0872860272
• ISBN-13: 978-0872860278
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,736,516 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting., May 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Book of Dreams (Paperback)

You really have to be in the right mood to enjoy this book. It is a verbatim account of Kerouac's dreams (literally, his sleeping dreams). Many of his dreams reflect characters and events in his novels, so it is a good idea to read a couple of those to go along with this. Overall, I enjoyed reading it, but just for fun. I didn't get anything special out of it. Just open it to any page and read a dream. They'll remind you of your own.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars simple, uncompromising dream accounts, November 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Book of Dreams (Paperback)

Kerouac's style is well adapted to the subject of dreams and his random testimonials that he wrote immmediately after waking up without giving himself time to think about what he was writing(more importantly no time to moralize or judge his dreams)are simple, scattered glimpses into the sleeping mind. This book inspired me to start keeping a dream journal in order to "fish out" my dreams before they disappeared from memory. A must read for any Kerouac fan.

4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars If you like prose this is your author., June 1, 1996

By A Customer

This review is from: Book of Dreams (Paperback)

This is a good book for die hard Kerouac fans. It is a very intheresting view inside the head of one of americas most traveled person. Most of the dreams in the book are releated in scope to his other books. If you are interested in how the hippies got started this is the man to read. He won't tell you how, it will just get you started on their all out mentalty. Everything and anything to the utmost extreme