Dharma Punx

It's hard to read a memoir when halfway through you decide the author is a dick. His message is great -- he transformed his life and began to help others after a horrendous road as a Crusty -- on the street, using whatever drugs he could find, immersed in the CA Punk scene. He got sober, got a teache......more

I noticed that this book gets a lot of one star and a lot of five star reviews. I have read several of these reviews. I decided that the book is very meaningful to someone who can relate to the author and the poor reviews are (seem to be) looking at the book from a literary view. There seems to be a......more

When I first read this book (eight or nine years ago), I loved it so much. It resonated with me in many ways: obviously, the wink to Kerouac in the title had gotten my attention, but I also felt like there was a weird similarity between my experience and some of Levine’s. His father, Stephen Levine......more

Reading Levine's from-the-gutter-to-the-Gotama memoir may make his instructional tract Against the Stream more engaging, as it is hard not to credence the transformative abilities of the Dharma when voiced by someone who was so radically transformed, but there is a lot to not love about Dharma Punx.......more

I think it is neither a book about a recovery program, nor a book about Buddhism. It is a book about the life experiences of one man, whom easily can be scoffed at for being different (tattooed punk rocker from the gutter). If you read it as an addict I am sure it can offer inspiration. If you read......more