Graham Vickers

A comprehensive portrait of a Beat Generation Legend that attempts to demythologize the cornucopia of myths swirling around Neal Cassady. However, his life makes such an interesting read that it remains mythological.

Full review:

http://readingthroughlife.ca/chasing-lolita-review/

Short excerpt:

It wasn’t bad, really, just not great. For starters, it just trudged on. I’ve been trying to read this book off and on since the end of March, a few pages at a time. I finally finished it last night after putting in a serious chunk of forced reading time as part of the 48 Hour Book Challenge. The pace was just really slow and the reading was really heavy and unnecessarily complex at times. Vickers covered an show more awful lot of information in a very short book, including details that related to a multitude of people who weren’t always mentioned more than once. Sometimes the things he talked about were really interesting and relevant, but there were other times where things seemed sort of tacked on or really peripherally related. show less