RE: jack kerouac/terrible drafts

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> Grant:
> "Anyway, I got it and read a few pages and it SUCKED!!"
> 
Sean wrote:
> I tried reading On the Road several years ago and had the same reaction. I
> found the 'Beat' delivery quite annoying. I picked it up again recently and
> managed to finish it. It's an interesting slice of recent American history
> and culture. 


When I read _On the Road_ I was compelled by wanderlust.  I wanted to hop
on the next Freight Train and make my way west.  Instead I hopped on a
Plane and went to Ireland for a month.  Don't read _On the Road_ if you
don't want to have travel plans.  I think no other book that I've read
captures the American nomatic impulse.

-j

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