Jack Kerouac
The Dharma Bums
Enjoyable story about Kerouac's time in California meditating and bumming around the country. Lots of beat generation celebrities are part of the story which lunges from drunken orgies (well, I'd consider it that) to full on meditating whilst fully sober to mountain trekking with the other main character in the story. Philosophical musings about like, on and off the road, make the book more than an adventure yarn. All builds up to a solitary summer job up a mountain the end of which ends the book. A good read and I should re-read more of his stuff.
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