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Anonymous

07/27/26(Mon)11:23:26 No.25426781

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What do you think of this book?

Anonymouṡ
07/27/26(Mon)11:31:10 No.25426796

Anonymouṡ 07/27/26(Mon)11:31:10 No.25426796

>>25426781
As a person he's a piece of shit like all the Beats. As a writer he's competent but no more than that.

The book is OK. Not the best thing in the world, not the worst thing either.

Anonymous
07/27/26(Mon)12:07:16 No.25426852

Anonymous 07/27/26(Mon)12:07:16 No.25426852

>>25426781
Boring but it made more sense as I've gotten older.

Anonymous
07/27/26(Mon)17:00:57 No.25427426

Anonymous 07/27/26(Mon)17:00:57 No.25427426

>>25426781
Kind of exhilarating once you get into it. You can almost taste the Benzedrine.
>>25426796
All good writers are bastards.

Anonymous
07/27/26(Mon)17:52:02 No.25427535

Anonymous 07/27/26(Mon)17:52:02 No.25427535

>>25426781
I envy Jack and crew so much. Life really was unpredictable back then.

Anonymous
07/27/26(Mon)18:00:20 No.25427552

Anonymous 07/27/26(Mon)18:00:20 No.25427552

>>25426781
I didn't like that book as much as I did Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels. Otherwise OK I guess.

Anonymous
07/27/26(Mon)18:09:32 No.25427560

Anonymous 07/27/26(Mon)18:09:32 No.25427560

The popular Beat artists were treated like royalty and acted accordingly.

Anonymous
07/27/26(Mon)19:38:11 No.25427745

Anonymous 07/27/26(Mon)19:38:11 No.25427745

>>25427552
Yeah, Dharma Bums is pretty great. The ending is positively ecstatic.
I retain a soft spot for Doctor Sax too.

Anonymous
07/27/26(Mon)21:59:35 No.25428022

Anonymous 07/27/26(Mon)21:59:35 No.25428022

>>25426781
I thought Desolation Angels was better, just more multilayered since it has that mix of fun adventures with friends and also the special kind of loneliness/longing only travel can bring out of you. Kerouac conveys that loneliness well.

I feel like Kerouac's one of those writers who you admire a ton when you're young, and then kind of dismiss as overrated when you're slightly older, and then fall in love with in a new way when you're even older. he has this starry-eyed quality as a person that i don't see in many other authors.