This is exactly why I'm enjoying On The Road so much. The way everything is described, and just Kerouac's way of writing gives you an incredible window into the Beat generation.Originally Posted by coqauvin
This is exactly why I'm enjoying On The Road so much. The way everything is described, and just Kerouac's way of writing gives you an incredible window into the Beat generation.
Coq, you are pretty much speaking in place for my buddy Andy. He loves the book and for the same reasons you gave. But, it appeals to the defiant, the young rebel. I mean if Holden wanted to do something great he could have, but he drank and became very idle in his rebellion, at least I think.
I should have read it as a teenager when I thought like him, but as an adult (although many would argue with me) I find him annoying.
Anyway, I read it but I have no plans on reading it again.
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