I've decided to keep 'On the Road', 'Lonesome Traveller', 'Desolation Angels', 'Big Sur' and 'Good Blonde' for my bookshelves, and to release the rest of my Kerouac collection for bookcrossing*/**. I didn't have to think twice about the others, but this one, 'The Dharma Bums', was borderline - I remember really liking this one at the time. I seem to recall a good passage about a headlong rush up a mountain, something about trail mix. Don't quote me, though, I might be wrong.

*sod it, I'm keeping 'The Town and the City' as well! (postscript)
**and 'Tristessa'!! (post-postscript)

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