methodically working my way thru the local library shelves in the early 70s I came across a copy of jack kerouac's on the road and YES! it blew my 15-year old mind...hipster saints bumbling across the horizon like like drunken comets...more than anything it was that voice, jack/sal's voice & his wino poetry and energy and speed and kicks and holy fools
yeah well you get the idea. here were are 50 years after the original publication and kerouac's infamous original manuscript -- the scroll -- is finally seeing the light of day along with other commemorations.
so I wonder: do people still revere on the road? or even read it?
discus
― m coleman, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)
this review is spot-on
― m coleman, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)
when I recommended OTR to my best friend and sci-fi buddy back in the day he HATED it: "but these people DON'T DO ANYTHING" at the time I was non-plussed -- "they're living-- but now I can see his point.
― m coleman, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 12:52 (eighteen years ago)
I've never been able to finish a Kerouac novel. He may have been 'living' but he wasn't living interestingly.
― milo z, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)
I just had the idea to start a thread called "Jack Kerouac, Blogger," but I don't know what I would say inside.
-- jaymc, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 19:29 (Yesterday) Link
― jaymc, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 13:02 (eighteen years ago)
Alas, I never liked On The Road. Mysoginistic prick (I can be somewhat exaggerating here).
― stevienixed, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)
I'm kind of with Nath on this one. I like the idea of Kerouac, but find the reality too much to wade through.
― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)
Dharma Bums is better, but yeah.
― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)
i liked on the road so much when i read i at age 16. it is i feel responsible for my lack of shame at the standard of my grammar.
― acrobat, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)
I've never read any Kerouac & have been hesitant b/c I wonder if it would resonate with me now. I feel like I should have read it when I was younger.
― sweet tater, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)
i really wanted to like 'on the road' but didn't.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)