What do you all think about 'On The Road'? Is there

>>8536314
I loved it when I was a kid. Pretty transformative for the right 15-17 year olds. I still have a fondness for Kerouac as I've gotten older, but it stems from that original energy of my youth. Not sure how I would take his work if I just discovered him now.

Kerouac managed to relate his experiences very clearly and faithfully. He doesn't run anything through an interpetive lens and as a result he doesn't emerge with a voice of his own and instead just gets upstaged by his more charismatic friends. It's well done ad a record of what he did and how he felt, and nothing more. If you like it it's cause you related to the successful conveyance of hanging out with friends and going places, if you don't like it then it's cause you expected a novel or some kind of artistic sentiment. It's not art of course, I have no idea what the fuck jazz he was listening to that sounds like arhythmic sentences that always stop too abruptly and never really vary in length or consistency. But still, I can't really dislike it for any reason, it's not bad.

>>8536314
LETTING THE DAYS GO BY
LET THE WATER HOLD ME DOWWN

>>8536443
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/authors/beats/neal-cassady/

>>8536559
rotten library ruled

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>>8536564
so good on so many levels

that's where I first learned about Joyce's fart fetish letters