Jack Kerouac - Big Sur

Maybe you should give up on K. He bored me too. Try that fellow who was a drunken postman. I'm sure his autobiographical writings are largely made up. But he might be more interesting to you.

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Originally Posted by Dinkleberry2010

First of all, I'll say this: On The Road has no plot--none, zip. Kerouac is one of the most overrated writers in history. So much of On The Road is made up of phrases that were at the time--the 1950s--in style, but now they have lost any meaning they had. Just an example of Kerouac's writing from On The Road: "So we sat for awhile and pulled wrists." Okay, in the 1950s, that meant something--pulling wrists was some kind of phrase among the "hip" and "cool" that meant something to them. But now, it means nothing. It's incomprehensible. So much of Kerouac is incomprehensible, because he was writing for a certain time to a certain group of people. Kerouac is one of the most limited writers of all time.

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I think that "pulled wrists" means that they mutually masturbated. Jack and Neal Cassidy
Both were "bi". His books are ok, nothing great but good for time travel back to the 1950's.