/lit/ - Literature

I didn't get it. He spends 300 pages going back and forth across the country getting drunk with his deadbeat friend.
Am I missing something?

*sweating*
Yass! Yass!

>>11599551
Possibly the worst American book I've ever read. Just horrible.

>>11049767
Stay away from the beats. Don't say I didn't warn you.

>>10910236
This piece of trash. The beats have to be one of the most overrated mongoloids ever. His prose reads like the ramblings of a pretentious teenager who thinks he's deep.

>and then we went here, and then we went there! oh boy, the road sure is the place to be!
why did they let chads write back then?

Derailing this thread with reading suggestions

for a first time reader: 1957 version or the 2007 'original scroll'?

Did anyone else catch the spirit to live after reading this book?

So I just fuck around in the late 1940s for a year. Doesn't sound all that bad.

this bored me

This kinda sucks.

I have decided to begin reading literature.

This book is my first.

What does /lit/ think of it?

is this really that good?

why is this book so loved?

why does he keep referring to neal cassady as groucho marx?
what's the significance?

I want to thank you guys for recommending me this book. It is easily one of the greatest books I've ever read. Everything, in my opinion, just works. I would appreciate it if you /lit/erary minds could recommend a book like it, something with similar writing or story

Is it a worthwhile read?

I started reading On The Road a while back, but quit after the first part for some reason I can't remember. Now I want to get back into it, but can't be arsed to start over. Can someone be a kind fellow and give me a recap of the first part, without spoiling the rest? Important names especially, tried to jump into the second part and didn't understand who was doing what.

ITT: That one book your friend mentions every chance they get and act like it's the greatest book ever written simply because it's the only book they've ever read.