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3.21 AVERAGE

reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

kdog's review

2.0
adventurous funny lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

It’s all about how much better at french kerouac is than french people lol

Kerouac does it again. This could be Kerouac at his best. I read this cover to cover whilst waiting for a plane and feel ready to read it cover to cover again. It's rammed full of Kerouac wit, plays on words and sounds, and a notable sense that his writing is immune to judgement. This immunity, sometimes arrogance, means the story or narrative (sometimes neither - just a mélange of words) is printed exactly as made sense to Kerouac, whether it does to the reader or not. It gives the sense that no editor on earth has the authority to change the way a single word or punctuation falls.

The novella tells the autobiographical story of Kerouac's travels to Paris and Brittany to research his family history. Ironically, the area Kerouac's family had left is the area my family recently immigrated too, and so I enjoyed the humour around the Breton tongue, place names and geography.

Unsurprisingly of Kerouac, this great voyage to track his genealogy ended less in family research and instead in him simply walking the streets at night and enjoying the local bars.
adventurous lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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n_linnea's review

3.75
dark funny reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous reflective fast-paced
emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Hezká knížka s melancholickým nádechem.