DetailsGet it!On the Road: The Original Scroll (Penguin Classics) - Jack Kerouac Posted by jack23 at Oct. 11, 2010On the Road: The Original Scroll (Penguin Classics) - Jack KerouacPublisher: Penguin Audio; Unabridged edition (September 18, 2008) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 0143143794 | 638.06 MBNarrator: John Ventimiglia | m4a | Listening Length: 12 hour(s) and 46 min. | 7% RecoveryThough Jack Kerouac began thinking about the novel that was to become On the Road as early as 1947, it was not until three weeks in April 1951, in an apartment on West Twentieth Street in Manhattan, that he wrote the first full draft that was satisfactory to him. Typed out as one long, single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper that he later taped together to form a 120-foot scroll, this document is among the most significant, celebrated, and provocative artifacts in contemporary American literary history. It represents the first full expression of Kerouac's revolutionary aesthetic, the identifiable point at which his thematic vision and narrative voice came together in a sustained burst of creative energy. It was also part of a wider vital experimentation in the American literary, musical, and visual arts in the post-World War II period. DetailsGet it!"Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha" by Jack Kerouac Posted by alexov85 at Sept. 11, 2009"Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha" by Jack Kerouac (Unabridged Edition) Audiobook | ISBN-10: 0670019577 | 2008 | English | MP3 (128 kb/s) | 365 MbAmerican Modern Prose / Beatnik / Buddhist FictionWake Up is Kerouac’s retelling of the story of Prince Siddhartha Gautama, who as a young man abandoned his wealthy family and comfortable home for a lifelong search for Enlightenment. As a compendium of the teachings of the Buddha, Wake Up is a profound meditation on the nature of life, desire, wisdom, and suffering. Distilled from a wide variety of canonical scriptures, Wake Up serves as both a concise primer on the concepts of Buddhism and as an insightful and deeply personal document of Kerouac’s evolving beliefs. It is the work of a devoted spiritual follower of the Buddha who also happened to be one of the twentieth century’s most influential novelists. Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha will be essential reading for the legions of Jack Kerouac fans and for anyone who is curious about the spiritual principles of one of the world’s great religions.