Although this isn't by any means a definitive comment on Dylan's career (perhaps that will have to wait for other volumes), and despite their being more in depth biographies on the market (such as Howard Souness' "Down the Highway"), Dylan works with prose in such a way, defying the laws of grammar, in a style reminiscent of Jack Keroac, a rip roaring ride through hectic times. Indeed, it seems as if Dylan has created a new style of prose with Chronicles; the Beat generation grown up. It feels as if Dylan is in the room with you telling you the story, losing train of thoughts and talking about something else before coming back to his original point, sometimes pages later.