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The raw notebooks of Jack Kerouac. Full of deep and wonderful sketches and behind-the-scenes alternate takes that make it a great companion to On The Road.

This is one of the loosest of Kerouac's books. I think it's basically a few raw notebooks thrown together. There's even a long tape transcript of Jack and Neal Cassady talking at the end.

Maybe you have to be a big Kerouac fan to read this book. But there are many magical little moments of awareness throughout the book that transcend the general buzz of the everyday and drag you, kicking and screaming, into a rarefied and beautiful sense of amazement about the commonplace sequences of events that we observe through the bruised and calloused core of everyday inattention.