what did we think of jack kerouac? I would consider myself a fan of on the road, dharma bums, and big sur, but I find the rest of his bibliography to be rather lacking in substance—sometimes without coherence—even with the more functional grammar of vanity of dulouz, I couldn't make it past 50 pages.
Every single person I’ve met who likes him was an insufferable retard.
i listened to big sur audiobook and maybe it was the narrator's voice or maybe it sucked but i found it a little bit annoying
The biggest Kerouac fan I ever met is now a white-shoe biglaw associate. Beautiful wife, also in biglaw. They live in Manhattan now.
>>25246129So basically living the opposite life from him
>>25246029I think I read more than on the road and he dharma bums when I went through that phase but I really don’t remember.I remember thinking the dharma bums was more amusing than on the road but that they were basically the same bookI like Kerouac. I think he tried. But I don’t really feel compelled to revisit any of it.
>>25246129Sounds like a loser.
>>25247091interesting, they are similar in terms of plot, though I found the passages in bums about buddhism to be quite a bore imo—i also felt a strange naivety in dharma bums that, although still present in on the road, is much more in the forefront. the praise and holiness in on the road cuts through its grittiness, but in dharma bums, there's very little dirt to cut through.I agree though, he tried. then kinda fizzled out, dying in a similar manner. I still find it insane how close his and neal's deaths were.>>25246129he sounds like a bum
>>25246191Basically, yeah. In college during the summers he and his gf (now wife) would go on long roadtrips to the american southwest and hike to the top of that state's tallest mountain. They liked to take pictures of each other holding cardboard signs with the altitude scrawled on in Sharpie>>25247101They're both very normal people, but his wife is really into contemporary art, which saves her from turbo-normiedom. I'm unemployed and live in NC and they live in Manhattan and make ~500k+ a year, so if anyone "won" here it's them>>25247896He's not a bum. I'm a bum. I wish them all the best
>>25246029Moriarty mogged him in his own novel.
>>25247971>they live in Manhattan and make ~500k+ a year, so if anyone "won" here it's themDo you use your fingers to type on a conventional keyboard, or your absurdly long Jewish nose?
>>25246029I loved Doctor Sax. The way he recreates his little childhood world is relatable as fuck.
>>25246129Storm King.......
