Ve Hipopotamlar Tanklarında Haşlandılar (2008) - Plot & Excerpts
I think this is probably one of my new favourite books. I have been really interested in the beat generation ever since Kill Your Darlings was released and I was so eager to read this book which fictionalizes the account of [SPOILER] David Kammerer's murder. The whole of the book kept me interested and eager to read because the tone and atmosphere of the era is so infectious. The ending where Phillip announces what he has done is so chilling because it is portrayed as if the event was always due to happen. At first I was surprised, but then as I read on I could tell it was meant to be ambiguous as to Phillip's motives, as there is such mystery as to what happened that night anyway. I really don't think this book could be improved upon. I am so in awe of it. This was a nice end-of-summer read derivative of other Kerouac prose. It was good, not great, but worthy of a reading. It coincided more or less with the entertaining movie Kill Your Darlings. I already knew the story, but it was interesting to read two accounts of Lucien Carr's homicide. I underlined many a beautiful sentence that described quite wonderfully the basic human condition, and the stark reality of 1940's existentialism.
What do You think about Ve Hipopotamlar Tanklarında Haşlandılar (2008)?
Buena novela para empezar a adentrarse en la generación beat.
—Enols
reminded me a lot of Salinger's Catcher in the Rye
—black203
