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title: The Sea Is My Brother
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[![The Sea is My Brother](https://www.yell.is/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/6297072.jpg)](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6297072-the-sea-is-my-brother)[The Sea is My Brother](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6297072-the-sea-is-my-brother) by [Jack Kerouac](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1742.Jack_Kerouac)  
My rating: [2 of 5 stars](https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/856972895)

Reading the first 200 pages, which is the newly published novel and other short stories by Kerouac, is a delight. You can see what's coming in his epic career. The characters and plot of the early bits of Sea are wildly memorable for this New England native.

I read a version that had another 300 pages of "critical essays." They weren't worth the time.

<https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/2136782-nathanael>(This part of my goal to read and review fifty books in 2014.)

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