![]() ![]() Here’s a sample sentence, one that I actually enjoyed more than most of the others: I’m not saying that this is a bad book and that there won’t be an audience who appreciates it, but that audience is clearly not me. I think I was following his points for the most part, but the whole book felt like one long ramble that I had to work to extract any meaning from. The sentences are long and the punctuation sometimes falls in odd places (or not enough places), and though the pieces are coherent as a whole the path through them is slow and convoluted. I haven’t read much stream-of-consciousness writing, and I’ve certainly read worse– but I simply could not get into Kerouac’s writing at all. “I myself was a hobo but only of sorts, as you see, because I knew someday my literary efforts would be rewarded by social protection…” This second piece mourns the approaching end of hobo life in America. Next comes “The Vanishing American Hobo,” which focuses on a single idea compiled from observations across many days of travel in many places. The first piece, “Piers of the Homeless Night,” features a story about a specific encounter with a friend in one American town. ![]() ![]() And I’m glad I did, because I have completely changed my mind about wanting to read On the Road.Ībout the book: This volume contains two journal entries that appeared in a book about Kerouac’s travels across America in 1960. ![]() I thought I might want to read Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, so when I saw a sample of Kerouac’s writing in the new Penguin Modern collection I added it to the list of those that I wanted to read. ![]()
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