- Gebundene Ausgabe: 336 Seiten
- Verlag: Harper; Auflage: 1 (3. Februar 2004)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0060005661
- ISBN-13: 978-0060005665
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,7 x 15,9 x 2,8 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.430.069 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Novelist and poet-at-heart Kashner has produced a kind of Almost Famous coming-of-age story both about the beginning of his life as a writer and about the end of the Beat generation of writers. As the first student in Naropa's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poets, Kashner unwittingly walks into an environment of "crazy wisdom" (the extreme following of desires) as promulgated by Tibetan Buddhist meditation teacher Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche (as if Ginsberg and the other Beat leftovers needed a reason to explore all things sensual). A young Jewish boy without much life experience, Kashner is the perfect witness, simultaneously in awe and aghast. This memoir retraces Kashner's awakening to the very human flaws within his mentors and himself. Kashner is no Beat apostle or name-dropping "I knew them when" so-and-so. Instead, he's an honest, sensitive, and funny storyteller, a perceptive observer who sheds light and shares discovery with his readers. His memoir is about enlightenment, the kind that comes from looking back with compassion but with eyes wide open. Janet St. John
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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“Engaging [and] illuminating.” (San Francisco Chronicle )
“Consistently funny … moving and always sharply observed.” (Rocky Mountain News )
“Hilarious and touching.” (Newsday )
“[This] headlong, infectious tales honors the author’s youthful idols by remembering them with tenderness and affection” (Time Out New York )
“A memoir worth some howling.” (Entertainment Weekly )
“Witty and warm grace notes to the cool history of the Beats.” (Kirkus Reviews )
[Kashner’s] memoir is about enlightenment, the kind that comes from looking back with compassion but with eyes wide open (Booklist )
“Fond, funny and finally heartbreaking.” (Village Voice )
“Consistently funny … moving and always sharply observed.” (Rocky Mountain News )
“Hilarious and touching.” (Newsday )
“[This] headlong, infectious tales honors the author’s youthful idols by remembering them with tenderness and affection” (Time Out New York )
“A memoir worth some howling.” (Entertainment Weekly )
“Witty and warm grace notes to the cool history of the Beats.” (Kirkus Reviews )
[Kashner’s] memoir is about enlightenment, the kind that comes from looking back with compassion but with eyes wide open (Booklist )
“Fond, funny and finally heartbreaking.” (Village Voice )
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Beatniks in Hot Tubs
23. Februar 2004
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I vote this FUNNIEST BOOK OF 2004. Besides Kashner thrilling us with his fly-on-the-wall memories of hanging with the Beats, it's also a window into that screwy, throw-all-the-rules-out era known as the 1970's. There's a deadpan, screamingly hilarious observation of the young and naive Sam Kashner, a Candide of the Rockies, on every single page. Beyond the laughs are incisive observations about our most famous Beatniks, their neuroses, their addictions, and the price they've paid for fame. It's the perfect book for anyone who was once a tortured high school poet who thought life could be perfect, if only they could hang out with real Beatniks. Buy this book!
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I almost wanted NOT to like it
28. April 2005
Format:Taschenbuch
When I first heard of "When I Was Cool", I thought, Great, yet another person cashing in on the Beats. But I finally picked it up for some of the same reasons Kashner went to Naropa -- I'm still interested in the Beats, if (like Kashner) no longer quite entranced.
"When I Was Cool" is funny, full of heart and candor and (somehow) not at all pretentious (no one who admits Corso scared him enough in a backwoods cabin to make him cry and run fleeing back down to Boulder could be too concerned with trying to make himself look good -- not even ironically).
Other reviewers have complained among other things about "obscure literary references." There are none. The closest we come is when Kashner himself admits to dropping one to impress Burroughs and Ginsberg -- and the point of his story seemed to have been precisely how sort of pathetic it was that he'd do such a thing. Another reviewer, complaining of inaccuracies, wrote "*Jim Carroll's "People Who Died" isn't about his friends who died of heroin overdoses, it's about friends who died in a variety of ways", which is pretty much exactly what Kashner had written in the first place: ". . . 'People Who Died,' a necrology of all the friends Carroll had lost, SOME to heroin" (my emphasis) [pg. 138]. And to the reviewer who suspiciously wondered how Kashner could've possibly remembered whole conversations from so long ago: he was an aspiring writer living among his gods, which is to say you know he wrote EVERYTHING down.
One thing that Kashner did get wrong, however, was referring to Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche as "the leader of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism" (pg. 53). Trungpa wasn't the head of Kagyu, and it's kind of a big deal to say so.
"When I Was Cool" is funny, full of heart and candor and (somehow) not at all pretentious (no one who admits Corso scared him enough in a backwoods cabin to make him cry and run fleeing back down to Boulder could be too concerned with trying to make himself look good -- not even ironically).
Other reviewers have complained among other things about "obscure literary references." There are none. The closest we come is when Kashner himself admits to dropping one to impress Burroughs and Ginsberg -- and the point of his story seemed to have been precisely how sort of pathetic it was that he'd do such a thing. Another reviewer, complaining of inaccuracies, wrote "*Jim Carroll's "People Who Died" isn't about his friends who died of heroin overdoses, it's about friends who died in a variety of ways", which is pretty much exactly what Kashner had written in the first place: ". . . 'People Who Died,' a necrology of all the friends Carroll had lost, SOME to heroin" (my emphasis) [pg. 138]. And to the reviewer who suspiciously wondered how Kashner could've possibly remembered whole conversations from so long ago: he was an aspiring writer living among his gods, which is to say you know he wrote EVERYTHING down.
One thing that Kashner did get wrong, however, was referring to Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche as "the leader of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism" (pg. 53). Trungpa wasn't the head of Kagyu, and it's kind of a big deal to say so.
6 von 6 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Cool? No. Warm-hearted? Yes.
7. Februar 2006
Format:Taschenbuch
There are a lot of things to like about Sam Kashner's coming-of-age memoir, "When I Was Cool." First: Mr. Kashner wasn't cool and probably knows it. Second: he doesn't go through detox or recovery. Halleluia! A memoir without a recovery center or AA meeting. Third: his affection for these old lions, of whom only Peter Orlovsky is still with us. Fourth: the look at their everyday lives, from hemorrhoids to the keystone cops comedy of The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Fifth: Mr. Kashner's long suffering, very cool, and funny parents. And Sixth: Mr. Kashner's teenaged, wide-eyed, intimidated, growing-up self.
Its not the last book that will be written about Naropa or any of the characters, but it's the only book written by the first (and for a long time only) student of the Kerouac school, and is sometimes lovely, often funny, and very easy - it's "a report of an intimate nature," i.e., gossip.
Its not the last book that will be written about Naropa or any of the characters, but it's the only book written by the first (and for a long time only) student of the Kerouac school, and is sometimes lovely, often funny, and very easy - it's "a report of an intimate nature," i.e., gossip.
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