Dissensus would be a poorer place if we refrained from shitting on rubbish things that young people like tho. It's what I signed up for!In a way it feels churlish shitting on Kerouac in that it's a book that some young people really need and that changes lives.
Fair enough, I don't remember it well enough to really challenge this. The issues I had with it were different.I think there's too many words that don't do anything
Yeah. And that could be interesting. But he thinks he's written a different, joyous book.What I remember about it was that it felt really sad. Because you can't run away and there's nothing at the end of the road. And all that callous hedonism just ends in burn out,
TBF there are probably tons of people who feel like that about Harry Potter and Twilight.In a way it feels churlish shitting on Kerouac in that it's a book that some young people really need and that changes lives.
I read Kerouac as a teenager and thought it was boring. I'd already encountered Burroughs and Hunter Thompson by that point, so it just seemed like this lame, old fashioned book about jazz and stuff.