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Eric Scheske's avatar

Also: Are these books humorous? Noir beatnik?

James K. Hanna's avatar

There is a thread of humor throughout, more so than the Beats, but also Keroucian in a way, but with normal sentence structure. Bandini is always on some kind of road—figuratively, and at times literally.

Eric Scheske's avatar

Let's assume my self-inflicted ADD permits to read only one of the four. Which one should I pick?

James K. Hanna's avatar

“Ask the Dust” (and by the way, skip the movie by the same title starring Colin Farrell and Selma Hayek, a real dud, I couldn’t finish watching it).