of course..after he's dead

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060726/ap_en_ot/books_on_the_road

but will there be more mexican gay sex scenes than a boroughs book?

i don't know what it was about that book, but it bored the hell out of me.

is this the same guy that wrote big sur? I couldn't read that..
I'm more of a kurt vonnegut.

did anyone else notice that this is the first thread ever that mike have been able to use his degree in?

hahahaha...Ya, Im all....uhhh...huh?
Im a tech guy. I read about solutions.

I loved Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels...On the Road was just sorta meh. I'll probably read this unedited version and wonder why I bothered.

the_reverend said:

Big Sur was by Henry Miller. I friggin loved it. My uncle lives about 20 minutes from there and said i could visit whenever. i'm broke as a motherfucker, though.

big sur is awesome! aaron and i went there...that reminds me...aaron we never went through our pics together..

the_reverend said:

Ya, and I really exercised the hell out of it too. "Me no lyke Ka-oooack"

The whole beatnick prose stream of consciousness thing just seems to annoy me. It comes across more as digression, lots and lots of boring digression to the point where you forget what's even going on. Every time it happened I'd just think "Man I wish this jerk would study some more Salinger." Also I kept thinking that the narration was meant to be heard with some forced southern twang to it, then I remembered Kerouac was from Lowell, and the charcter in the story is from New Jersey (I think). It was kind of stupid.

Give me Flannery O'Connor any day of the week.

I hear what your saying about the lack of focus but I think it might just be a "Koo-ak" thing. like junky is pretty focused throughout.

xmikex said:


No shit. I fucking writhed through that book. Kerouac is HIGHLY overrated.

Poe > everyone

that's a pretty large statement...there are a lot of underrated writers