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The Dharma Bums

Posted by Jason Hussong on Monday, December 5, 2011,

I had been itching to follow up On the Road for a while, not sure I really gave Jack Kerouac a fair shot with just one book. I mean, I liked On the Road alright all in all, but it didn’t quite live up to

my expectations. There were a few things with the story, not so much the writing style, which bothered me. But I knew that couldn’t be all someone of Jack Kerouac’s reputation had to offer, so I gave him a second shot with The Dharma Bums.

The Dharma Bums is most specifically about aut...

Crossing the Heart of Africa

Posted by Jason Hussong on Thursday, August 4, 2011,

I slid Julian Smith's book onto the shelf, just to the right of Joshua Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World. I had finished it, Crossing the Heart of Africa: An Odyssey of Love and Adventure, and stood before my bookshelf contemplating the story. It wasn't what I had expected and thus I wasn't quite sure what I thought of the story.

Crossing the Heart of Africa is Julian Smith's tale about how he crossed Africa from south to north, following in the footsteps of Englishman Ewart Grog...

On the Road

Posted by Jason Hussong on Tuesday, September 15, 2009,

Jack Kerouac's On the Road is travel writing as it should be. It is a vivid description of interesting personalities partaking in bizarre adventures that cause them to criss cross the United States for no

other reason than to be somewhere else, to experience life in a different place. And that, in my opinion, is exactly why traveling should be done.