Wake Up by Jack Kerouac

This was a fantastic book-I actually did not even know that it existed until I found it in the library.

The jacket image was drawn by Kerouac. The book was designed to convert Ginsberg. It is at times a little academic, but overall there is a ringing, singing, beatnik vibe to the entire proceeding that I really enjoyed.

A great read that does not really provide any more stories then I already knew about the buddha, but some of the wanderlust that gets stripped away by translation and years is returned to the original story by this book.

Lots of fun.