i'm currently readin "on the road" and everybody keeps telling me it's such a good book, although i'm not that far into it, it's very...um...for lack of a better word, boring. it's good and all, just a little boring thus far, but i'm only in chapter 7.

i hope it will get better, are there any fans on kittyradio?

just wrote about him in my Buddhism exam!!

Didn't he fuck a hole in the earth because he was so sexually frustrated?

never heard that before? If only i coulda put that in my Buddhism exam!!
darn it!

I liked The Subterrenans, although it's very difficult to read. I really want to read The Dharma Bums..has anyone read that one? Is it any good?

The Dharma Bums is ace! its semi-fictional and like The Subterrenans its a difficult book to get into but worth it

yes. my favorite book of his is either "tristessa" or "mexico city blues".

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then she dances skirt swaying in the half-light she dances white blossom in the black sky
'I need new clothes', she thinks, 'new skin, a mind I can bear to live in'.

i'm feeling the same way about it, i've since stopped reading it.

:/

who do you reckon is better? Kerouac or Ginsberg?
Ginsberg's Howl is a classic!

Ash

even though i love "howl" i prefer kerouac.

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then she dances skirt swaying in the half-light she dances white blossom in the black sky
'I need new clothes', she thinks, 'new skin, a mind I can bear to live in'.

Mr. Ginsberg.
My band is called Kerouac though.

Ginsberg's work is profound and strikes a chord

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix" (From Howl)

i was the same way, i read about a third of it and gave up. and i don't readily give up on books
i just couldn't find anything interesting about it at all?!

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i think there may be something on my head.

kerouac is fuckin horrible.

he's a wanna-be, pretencious, long-winded motherfucker without any talent.

he's just famous cause people think it's cool to be into kerouac.

his works are so fuckin fake and ungenuine they reek.

read some ginsberg instead.

YES, Tristessa is great.

Try reading this one first...its very short. A novella, I guess.

I only read about half of On The Road...had to return it to the library... gotta buy my own copy.


PS: he's SO handsome!

he's amazing. he's inspired me so much in the last 10 years, i wouldnt know what to do without him. but then again, his book Big Sur is crap. he's up and down i think.
but On The Road and Dharma Bums are my two favorites of his.

i love reading him because it's like reading about the drunk version of American History.

Ginsberg is great, too. He's been doing good work for a long time. Kerouac sort of burned out pretty early on.

Clinquant, that hurt.

^^ yea Clinquant... i've heard that tired "arguement" from other literature snobs (the book version of movie snobs)...


and "long winded motherfucker"?...it's called narrative prose.

"literature snob" - hahahaha! sure, why not.

in case you weren't somehow aware, we're all entitled to a fuckin opinion, and i was voicing my own.

i don't happen to like this "narrative prose".

by the way, what makes the argument tired, anyway?

heard it a lot before? wonder why that would be...

blow me.

yo relax. you came and bashed the fuck out of Kerouac with your opinion.

and she decided to bash your opinion, just a little bit. her opinion is that your opinion is silly. that's fair right?

calm down.

i was really curious too, to know why you think kerouac is so pretentious and/or fake?

yea relax

it IS personal opinion
that was MY opinion
and ours don't agree... so what?

"blow me" ..? how about you grow up?