I still read 1600 pgs a day. I'm better than all of you

>>24513349 (OP)
i fuck 100 bitches

>>24513351
I fuck two-hundred

>>24513349 (OP)
I WRITE 1,600 words a day. I'm better than you.

>>24513363
No you fucking don't

>>24513349 (OP)
This is a great book, acts as a direct sequel to Dharma Bums. I skipped most of the poetry in the first half doe.

>>24513349 (OP)
you harold bloom

Read On the Road and want more Kerouac, should this be my next stop?

how many harry potter books have u read this year tho
i already read them all haha loser see you next year

>>24515221
I've never read any Harry Potter books nor do I plan to, ever

>>24516185
>I've never read any Harry Potter books nor do I plan to, ever
Based, me either

>>24515175
Not OP, but I've been shilling OTR here for a while so I'm curious what you thought of it.

I think reading Satori in Paris after OTR and before the rest is helpful to understand how he was towards the end. It adds a layer of doom to all his previous writings, without which you could miss some of the impending tragedy that he foresaw for himself, yet kept shoving under the rug, as an extremely sensible man.
I've not yet read half of his books, and I do it by feel. I'm reading his journals and letters up to 1951 at the moment, along with Visions of Gerard which is heart breaking (the journals are very important, they tell us he can't remember anything about his brother as he died when Kerouac was 4 and Gerard 8, except a slap he received from him, yet in Visions of Gerard he's an angel, he rebuilds memories from mere illusions, pictures, his brother has been dead and unavoidably erased from remembrance for 30 years yet he builds him, with this book, an altar of unspeakable beauty).

>>24515175
>>24516913
I don't understand how you can possibly get to the part in the On The Road where he talks about ice cream and apple pie as "delicious and nutritious" and not laugh at how ridiculous it is and set the book down never to be opened again.

>>24516938
I remember a young female author on french tv a decade ago saying that exact same thing. I think some people just don't understand his voice, and are so far removed from the experience of poverty that "ice cream and apple pie" being "delicious and nutritious" can't possibly be stated seriously. I wonder if you guys ever talked to your grand parents or great grand parents about their lives, what they ate, in which room they slept. If you can't relate to the pleasure of an apple pie on a road trip in late 40s america, I can't expect you to acknowledge the fact that some appartments didn't have warm water or a phone line in NY in the late 50s, that people slept on the floor without being homeless, that friendships made under such duress were worth writing about.
I'm not american but I understood him. I remembered what it was like without ever being there, because in a way some of my family, too, was beat. That's literature. Shame he couldn't get to you.

recite one poem

>>24513349 (OP)
I'm at 10k pages this year, personal best.

>>24516992
You put it very aptly, thank you based Beat anon. Me and my group of friends are all 30-smth y/o NEETs and I think of us as a kind of modern day Beat generation.