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Merry christmas /lit/

I just finished on the road and loved it. Next I'm going to move on to the Dharma Bums and Mexico City blues.

Thoughts on Jack Kerouac?

>> No.5906269

some parts were ok (like the homeless part) , but I found this book to be boring and pointless in a bad way, also name dropping for the sake of name dropping also made this book lose a lot of points for me

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>>5906269
As great as his prose was, his tryhard-ness made The Dharma Bums a lot less interesting for me. The Beats were so annoying.
>literally breaking one of the Five Precepts on a regular basis while claiming to be 2enlightened4u
>mfw

>> No.5906297

>>5906269
I think the pointlessness was intentional, like its their search for purpose across the American continent. Or because Kerouac wrote it on the fly and wasn't trying to construct a detailed plot