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Original Title:	Visions of Cody
ISBN:	0586091599 (ISBN13: 9780586091593)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Duluoz Legend
Characters:	Jack Duluoz

Visions of Cody (Duluoz Legend)

Jack Kerouac

Paperback | Pages: 464 pages

Rating: 3.57 | 3880 Users | 128 Reviews

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What can I say? As much as I love Kerouac for all that he has meant for literature and counter culture, this book was too experimental for me to enjoy. And I love experimentation! It helps keep literature fresh, interesting, and evolving. Even so, I thought that The Visions of Cody needed more structure...because there was practically none. There was no story. No narrative. No plot. No development of character. It wasn't about ANYTHING.

The first section felt like a collection of unrelated creative writing exercises---What do you see right now? Describe it. That type of exercise. So we get descriptions of city streets, strangers, cafes, diners, brick buildings, and glowing neon signs. This is the stuff that inspires Kerouac in its raw form. But great artists take that raw material and shape it into something tangible. This is where craft comes in. The ability to perfect one's craft is what separates the good artists from the bad ones.

Then we get a 150 pg transcript of a series of conversations between Jack, Neal, and friends. It didn't bother me that they were drunk, stoned, and high on benzies. It bothered me that they were incoherent ramblings. It was impossible to follow without references. There was no context other than the little the reader knows about their lives. I thought it was a cool idea, but I found it very frustrating instead. The most I could get out of it is that they were getting fucked up talking about old times when they were getting fucked up. Following this is an "imitation of the tape" which was even more confusing and incoherent. Truthfully, by this point I had lost patience, skimmed through the rest, and gave up.

Besides the incoherent ranting and disjointed musings, I found myself reacting to Jack and Neal's reckless lifestyle---mainly the drug abuse. I lost some of the romanticism that I attributed to the beats. Jack died of alcoholism in his 40's. Neal died in his 40's as well, most likely because of drugs. I read a quote in which Neal was giving advice to a 19 year old kid: "Twenty years of fast living – there's just not much left, and my kids are all screwed up. Don't do what I have done." As I find myself growing older and maturing the concept of BALANCE is becoming extremely important to me. Listen, I think it's healthy to experiment with drugs and open new doors of perception, to live life passionately and intensely, to question authority and reject many of the social norms in our society that seem to trap people and suffocate their spirit. But once you get to a certain level of awareness, you cannot evolve further doing the same shit all the time. Sooner or later, that behavior becomes self destructive, and it's important to find healthy alternatives to continue to evolve mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

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Title	:	Visions of Cody (Duluoz Legend)
Author	:	Jack Kerouac
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 464 pages
Published	:	November 19th 2001 by Flamingo (first published 1959)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Novels

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Ratings: 3.57 From 3880 Users | 128 Reviews

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What can I say? As much as I love Kerouac for all that he has meant for literature and counter culture, this book was too experimental for me to enjoy. And I love experimentation! It helps keep literature fresh, interesting, and evolving. Even so, I thought that The Visions of Cody needed more structure...because there was practically none. There was no story. No narrative. No plot. No development of character. It wasn't about ANYTHING.The first section felt like a collection of unrelated

I can't do it. I tried and failed. This is really not my taste, although I would have loved it 12-ish years ago when I went through my let's-read-everything-Beat phase, whether I liked what I was reading or not. I don't think I can even rate this star-wise, because I read one page at a time, occasionally. It was painful, because nothing about this book or mentality speaks to me. At all. Like the wind whistling between my ears... And then, I got to the part around page 30 where he writes some

This was one of the hardest books for me to rate. Jack Kerouac was one of the most magnificent prose writers; that is something I firmly believe. I also believe that some of the best examples of his prolific, dynamic prose can be found in Visions of Cody. The reason for my three star rating is simply the long winded passages connecting those incredible sections of prose. If you want Jack Kerouac in all his glory, read this book. But he makes you work for those moments of magic and there are



This book is the definition of "bromance". It is quite funny that in the introduction Ginsberg says that Jack and Neil would probably both have benefited from a more "physical" relationship. But this book is such a labour of love. All the things that Jack loves best about America summed up in Neil Cassady. When reading it in places I got the feeling that "Cody" was Coyote of American myth, particularly in a more modern urban setting. Kerouac's prose was astounding in this, sentances going on

"No possible way of avoiding enigmas. Like people in cafeterias smile when they're arriving and sitting down at the table but when they're leaving, when in unison their chairs scrape back they pick up their coats and things with glum faces (all of them the same degree of semi-glumness which is a special glumness that is disappointed that the promise of the first arriving smiling moment didn't come out or if it did it died after a short life)--and during that short life which has the same blind

Of all Kerouacs great novels, ON THE ROAD, THE SUBTERRANEANS, THE DHARMA BUMS...the level of quality of the prose in this one is consistently amazing. It is a dense, melancholy novel that flashes between a stark, lonely New York with forlorn ambitions and a sort of jazzy, but haunted hobo Denver...so many great moments throughout and the last 100 pages of the book read like an amazing prose poem. For all Denverites it is a MUST becuase its in this novel Jack really pays homage to Neal Cassady's