/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14166360]

What does /lit think of Jack Kerouac?

[Anonymous No.14166404]

A lot of /lit/ has a weird hate-boner for him the same way they do for Hemingway. It's probably because a few patricians were too snobbish to enjoy their work and the rest of the mouth-breathing neckbeard brigade obeyed their anti-shilling like the loyal, simian creatures they are.

[Anonymous No.14166411]

>>14166404
based

[Anonymous No.14166425]

>>14166360
dogshit

no ive never read him

[Anonymous No.14166457]

>>14166360
I've never been interested. I don't have anything against him but he just belongs to a movement in American literature that compels none of my interest -- I say that as an Australian but it seems a lot of Americans here aren't really interested in the Beats either (except maybe for Ginsberg ? and Burroughs who isn't really a Beats writer but gets namedropped alongside them for some reason). Seems dusty. Tired. Dull. He looks like a good enough writer and an appealing character in his own right but I have no desire to read his works lol.

[Anonymous No.14166474]

I thought On the Road was rather dull and uninteresting.

[Anonymous No.14166488]

>>14166360
I read On the Road the original manuscript oh about a month ago and i just found his writing uninteresting and scattered with only a few memorable lines. Its i think because of the life he led very few writers can lead a hedonistic lifestyle to then expect to put out great writing on top of it though i felt he captured the essence of counterculture movement that was created out of jazz and drugs in post second world war America.

[Anonymous No.14166493]

>>14166360
women love Jack Kerouac, which means Jack Kerouac is the GOAT

[Anonymous No.14166499]

>>14166360
he helped kickstart beat literature which is possibly the only time writing has come close to being interesting and truly artful in eons. he's a case study for when being a hipster meant actually trying
>>14166404
hemingay is a fag and has few, if any parallels to beat lit

[Anonymous No.14166504]

>>14166493
Wife comes home ''honey i want to go on a road trip across the country''

[Anonymous No.14166522]

A chad that aged like milk.

[Anonymous No.14166543]

>>14166360
Can't read his stuff because I get jelly and realize how shit my life is in comparison.

[Anonymous No.14166758]

>>14166360
Big Sur is fantastic. Reading Kerouac is reading untapped genius, with some refining he could have been one of the greats, though I suppose that unpolished feel is the main draw.

[Anonymous No.14167243]

Reading Big Sur was one of the most emotional experiences I've had from literature. You'd need to read some of his other stuff first, to be familiar with him. And I think it was because of the place I was in life at the time. But it was really powerful. Authentically raw.

>>14166758

Did you ever read the more conventional novel he wrote? He could have definitely been one of the conventional greats but desu I think it bored him. He had a deep spiritual hunger which sadly I think he never filled.

[Anonymous No.14168373]

>>14166360
Hated On The Road, but Dharma Bums turned me into a fan. I've liked everything so far, other than On The Road.

[Anonymous No.14168402]

>>14166474
This

[Anonymous No.14168435]

>>14166457
>who isn't really a Beats writer but gets namedropped alongside them for some reason

Because, even if his style doesn't fit he was there writing with them

[Anonymous No.14168467]

>>14166360
I read on the road because my parents got it for me when I was a teenager, it was mediocre throughout most of it, although it picks up towards the end when they go to Mexico

[Anonymous No.14168764]

>>14166360
Lads, if you are reading on the road you are wasting your time. Read the dharma bums, it’s his hidden gem.

[Anonymous No.14168858]

I really love On the Road, which was one of my first reads and what got me into /lit/.