Any love here for this classic ?
Those degens molested the mexican injuns kids, doesn't they?
Pure boomer wankery
One of like, three books in my life that I didn't finish. So boring it made me content with being trapped in the city I live in with no prospect of travel for the foreseeable future.
So I met up with this dude who was really fucking cool and he liked to fuck chicks and drink. He asked me to get in his card and drive cross country with him and his girl who I also wanted to fuck. So I did. We drove and drove and he fucked her and I didn't but it's okay because I like him. Then we get to cali and he starts fucking this other chick and his gf is okay with it sorta so I go back to NY. Then he comes back again years later and we drive some more and he fucks some more and I even get to fuck his now ex-wife. Life is weird when you are on the road.
>>24753185Then we all had a gangbang on a mountain and this is the conclusion of the story do I even need to spoiler this
>>24753130The beats are a phase you're supposed to grow out of in your teens. The further you get into your 20s still hyping Keuroac the more likely it is you're a midwit coping that you aren't going to amount to anything worthwhile.
>>24753185You forgot the part where the protagonist fucks a single mother in front of her son then leaves right after.
>>24753237How else, pray tell, are you supposed to fuck single mothers?
>>24753130I think Kerouac is an interesting guy purely because I like how he made fun of everyone on that shitty Buckley interview but On The Road is shit
>>24753130This is bait, right?
>>24753130I'm embarrassed how much this book influenced my in High School but it had literally never occurred to me that you could just drive around and meet people and give them little gifts and nobody was going to rob and kill you.
>>24753130On the Road is bad. Read Desolation Angels instead.
ITT: bunch of losers who never go outside don't like a book about going outside and meeting people and getting laid
>>24754012I bet you there's a clear trend on this board in which the more you rant against On the Road, the less people you've fucked or even had romantic moments with
>>24754012>>24754217Lmao exactly this, it's a great book. Sorry for everyone else too afraid to explore the world
>>24754305It's pretty boring and exposes how even a lifestyle that people imagine as being exciting can be absolutely mundane. Endless pages of "I met a guy then we drove somewhere then I met a couple of other guys then we chatted a bit" and occasionally "I smoked some weed" or "I met some whore and she slept with me".
>>24754305>it's a great book. Sorry for everyone else too afraid to explore the worldI mean it's not a bad book but Kerouac definitely has much better novels
any love for a kitty croissant?
>>24753130It's pretty great. The exuberance is infectious (except among the many defeated spirits inhabiting this thread.)>>24754589True. I loved Doctor Sax and The Dharma Bums.
>>24754012>>24754305It's not a very good book, and is far from K's best work. It's overrated boomer slop. It lacks the pure soul of Jack's later works and is tediously written. This may not be the case in the original scroll, but it's fairly substandard. Desolation Angels and Big Sur are far superior works. The best part about On the Road is when they're with Burroughs in New Orleans. That's pure kino.
Anyone else read his book Satori in Paris? Now THAT'S kino of the highest order.
>>24756767Listen to Satori by Flower Travellin' Band
>>24753130Why read Kerouac when you could read Thomas Wolfe?
was the book that got me into the lit game, so I have a soft spot for it. think I’ve read it five times including the og scroll.>>24755780>Desolation Angels and Big Sur are far superior worksagreed
>>24755780There’s only one K and Keroufag is not it.
>>24753130its shit but i love it for the sole reason it makes women seethe
>>24756775Kerouac was heavily influenced by Thomas Wolfe. [The Town and the City reeks of it.] Kerouac wrote an essay of Wolfe's influence on him while he was in school.
>>24753130I liked Desolation Angels, The Dharma Bums, Tristessa, and Some of the Dharma.
>>24753130the song was better kekhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSiHqxgE2d0
Has anyone read his early roman a clef about being a merchant marine? The Sea Is My Brother is what it's called.
