

“Pretty girls make graves”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums

“...I didn't feel that I was an American at all, with all that suburban ideal and sex repression and general dreary newspaper grey censorship of all our real human values...”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums

“Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that cramp they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, at least new fancy cars, certain hair oils and deodorants and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume...”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums

“I felt free and therefore I was free.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums

“I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead, my brother dead, my mother faraway, my sister and my wife far away, nothing here but my own tragic hands that once were guarded by a world, a sweet attention, that now are left to guide and disappear their own way into the common dark of all our deaths, sleeping in me raw bed, alone and stupid: with just this one pride and consolation: my broke heart in the general despair and opened up inwards to the Lord, I made a supplication in this dream”
― Visions of Cody
― Visions of Cody
Steve Geppert’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Steve Geppert’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Polls voted on by Steve Geppert
Lists liked by Steve Geppert