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It's Kerouac's Rambling Thoughts OK...this is not Kerouac's best book...but that's like saying, this is not Jesus' best miracle or something absurd like that. This book is more of a personal NEED for Kerouac than a literary adventure like most of his other writings. This book opens up the little known years of his life in college at Columbia University, and his young lust for football which spawned into a virtually mythical career cut short by ignorant-stubborn coaches. This book also manages to tackle his little adentures as a Merchant Marine and some of his wonderfully early-innocent European experiences. Of course, all of these topics are horribly tainted with confusion, closed minds, and other Kerouac problems. As usual, it's written like he is sitting across the table from you getting some old-troublesome stories off his chest. To sum it all up, if you like Kerouac, read this book...if you haven't read him before, this is not the book to start with.
Good work - but by no means his best...... Vanity of Duluoz is a novel of reflection. To many of us Kerouac fans, nothing "new" will be presented here. But the story is told from a new Kerouac - not the wild, hip, drunkard from On the Road and The Subterraneans vein, but the quiet, reserved, almost conservative Kerouac of his later years. The book is as easy to read as his other works, perhaps easier. Its Kerouac in a reflective mode, where his thoughts are laid-out for us on the pages as plain and simple as they have ever been.
One of Jack's last reflections on his extraordinary past Written two years before his death, this book reveals a cynical and wiser Kerouac who sees the sickness of the world clearly- "People never walk down the street with their hands in their pockets anymore". This is a book about war and football, but the last line tells the sad story of poor Ti Jean's life.
A human novel "Where is he? Where am I? Where are you?" The forlorn words of a reminiscing soul. Vanity of Dulouz is a novel of reflection, tragedy, remorse, and the passing of time that not only gives insight into the perception of Jack Kerouac (legendary writer of On the Road) and his views on his youth but insight of the wisdom gained in age. A humorous and melancholy novel that transcends the boundaries of law and country into the realm of humanity and what it means to be human
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