>1950s
>california
>jazz
>gayness
>muh "beat generation"

If this is some epic masterpiece I'm shutting myself off from please knock some sense into me ig

>>24534807 (OP)
"That's not writing. That's typing."

>>24534807 (OP)
Deracinated lapse Catholic goes looking for meaning. The physical journey is really just the physical outlet of a homeless man looking for a (spiritual) place of belonging.

>>24534807 (OP)
My favorite book, read it at 29 for the first time. What can I tell you, the whole thing just makes me the perfect kind of sad. He looks for something in places and people, but it's never enough, and never something he can hold on to. He lost his big brother at 4 to illness, lost his best friend at 22 to WW2, his family was poor, his faith was strong but his lust was stronger, he was deeply introspective but also addicted to the life in display in places of sin, because he felt something there. Still he resented the friends that fed this part of his.
Nothing about what he does in the books matters to me. It's the reason he went and stayed and left and went back again unable to put his finger on what's wrong with him, his friends, the world, unable to find a purpose in the mess of his life that pulls me.

There, this was my only OTR-shilling post for the week. See you on monday.

>>24534807 (OP)
Roadtripping is fun and the book was in vogue enough to put it to page right around the time that car technology was evolved enough to do so for the pure sake of recreation. Hated everything about it that wasn‘t a scenery description though.

Oh and you forgot
>negrophilia
though that might fall under jazz if you like

>>24534977
>epic masterpiece status
OK yeah I'll own this one, I suppose I am a little tarded for being afraid of any post-WW2 literature

Can't blame me ig tho

>negrophilia
I actually thought Jack Kerouac was Black when I first heard about him, On the Road, and the Beat Generation

But again, can't blame me ig

Probably confused him and Ezra Pound with Ezra Jack Keats thanks to public school kindergarten propaganda

>roadtripping
If I wanna read about some revolutionary socialistard gallivanting across a continent, why not a motorcyclist in South America lol

>>24534807 (OP)
If this is the book I think this, I remember I tried to read it after watching Dawson's creek.
It was shit I couldn't even get through 1/4 I think, and I didn't even mind catcher in the rye so I don't know why I found the main guy so insufferable. I just couldn't fucking care. Maybe I'll try again.

>>24534807 (OP)
the prose

>>24534807 (OP)
>>1950s
>>california
>>jazz
>>gayness
>>muh "beat generation"

cool, give me the name of your favourite book so i can be a reductive little faggot too you SSRI’d out TikTok brained retard.

It's a ton of fun is what it is but you really need to read it in your late teens-early twenties to really enjoy it.

>>24534807 (OP)
I have to cheat on my wife, because... well... well I just do, okay?? You wouldn't understand, I'm dddddriven to keep driving, yeah yeah yeah.

>>24534807 (OP)
Big Sur was even worse. He appeals to those who have no responsibility and a safety net when it doesn't work out.

>>24534807 (OP)
The sweating and belly rubbing was really annoying after a while.
It clicked for me when I realized it was the this of then version of what you see today of kiddos wasting their early twenties on partying and burning bridges once things get rocky. The part where he refused to share his food as they were all parting ways and had no intention of seeing each other was that cruel apathy.