/lit/ - Literature

Why do people say this is a book that celebrates hedonism? It’s clear that Dean is a sad and toxic figure by the end and it seems Kerouac saw it. I thought it was a book about growing up and looking back at your naive, optimistic young selves, before you became jaded, with a sad longing for those days. I can’t see how anyone would view Dean as anything but a scumbag at the end. He had some greatness too him, but his faults outweighed them

Read it when I was 18. Hated it. Just reread it at 30. Loved it. What is wrong with me?

It is a great book and only limp wristed nu-'Republicans' hate it

This is so much better than the normal version wtf