Kerouac may be one of the most overrated American authors of all time, and On The Road is almost certainly the most overrated book in American literature.
it is self-serving, empty, and overwhelmingly boring (although I must admit in this way it does a good job of summing up the life portrayed therein). Not to mention that almost everyone completely misreads it anyway.
Smart software is transforming the world of manual labor as well, propelling improvements in autonomous cars that make it likely machines can replace taxi drivers and heavy truck drivers in the next two decades, according to Frey’s study.
The lack of paragraphs in On the Road make it difficult to read in general, but it especially makes it hard to put the book down and pick it up again. I mainly suffered through it for the benefit of the snapshot of that time and place. I don't like Hemingway's work either, but A Moveable Feast is pretty interesting.
@7,
No, it's proof of how terrible the taxi monopoly is. Obviously he should have used UberX.
@6: That is my main criticism of the book really: It is just sooooooo boring.
He actually does a good job of showing how full of shit the whole beatnik thing was, even though so many readers of the text think he is championing it.
it is self-serving, empty, and overwhelmingly boring (although I must admit in this way it does a good job of summing up the life portrayed therein). Not to mention that almost everyone completely misreads it anyway.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-12…
You would love William F. Buckley's late in life interview with Kerouac.
#3
I also thought I was dreaming, yes.
@7,
No, it's proof of how terrible the taxi monopoly is. Obviously he should have used UberX.
He actually does a good job of showing how full of shit the whole beatnik thing was, even though so many readers of the text think he is championing it.
But so fucking booooooooring.