RE: jack kerouac/terrible drafts

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>Grant:
>"Anyway, I got it and read a few pages and it SUCKED!!"
>
>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. 

though all my friends tell me otherwise, i think on the road and many other
BEAT TEXTS are the fucking shit
frank o'hara, amiri baraka, burroughs...they're all the shit
i'll tell you who sucks, all those arrogant expatriates...hemingway, fitzgerald

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