You guys like Kerouac? I started reading On the Road a few months

/lit/ doesn't like Kerouac, he was a fucking hack and the whole beat movement was a joke.

>>9386441
DUDE LONG SCROLLS OF BAD WRITING

It's garbage and is only relevant as a historical marker for an embarrassingly self-indulgent period of western history

i didn't enjoy on the road - any attempt at lyrical writing turns out fucking abysmal, even for a stream of consciousness. i do find it interesting though how the catholic republican kerouac came to be associated with the hippies

>>9387156
Well, he was a catholic republican who did all sorts of drugs, liked to listen to experimental jazz, famously wrote about love affairs with Mexican and black women, had several gay friends, probably experimented with some homosexual activity himself, and seemed to have few qualms about hanging out with criminals.

>>9386441
It's the rock music of literature. Sloppy, incompetent, sensationalist, and appealing primarily to teenagers.

>>9387168
it's crazy!

>that part of on the road where neal cassady invites kerouac to be his bull and he refuses

>>9387175
Why do you call his stuff sensationalist? That's one of the last words I would use to describe it. I can sort of maybe see it applying to On the Road, but not to his later stuff.

>>9387180
Actually, the average leftist today, not to speak of the average right-winger, is pretty tame compared to the Beats. Hanging out with those people could be legitimately dangerous. It brought you into contact with a certain number of the insane, the reckless, and criminals.
That aspect of it wasn't Kerouac's focus, though.