This is the famous Jack Kerouac classic that sort of started the "beat" generation. I guess I just don't get it. It reads as an ongoing thought process where Sal--the main character is around a bunch of crazy people with one Dean basically a criminal. I sort of see it as a group of people just after WWII that had a lot of steam to blow and didn't want to settle into a life their parents had. I get that and I get where this just ongoing writing of non-stop stuff going on was probably so different than what other writers were doing that it became a sort of fascinating read but stepping beyond that, again I don't get it. Didn't like the characters, didn't like the writing, didn't like the book.
It is a classic & my copy is older and sort of beaten up so won't post on PBS, will stick it on a shelf so I have it in case someone else wants to read some day.
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