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[Aqua Letifer]

Can't beat Kerouac.

[George K]

Think different...

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[Horace]

@George-K said in Word.:

Think different...

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Love that commercial.

[Mik]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Word.:

Can't beat Kerouac.

On The Road was a huge influence on me. Also Manchild In The Promised Land and Steal This Book.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Mik said in Word.:

On The Road was a huge influence on me.

Funny, I absolutely hated that book. I just found them so freaking annoying.

Over the years, numerous people have called me a dickhead for this. One guy actually said I ruined the book for him, which is something I was quite proud of.

[Mik]

To each his own dickhead my friend.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Mik said in Word.:

To each his own dickhead my friend.

I was a massive jazz snob at the time. I still am, but I’m at least willing to acknowledge there are other forms of music worth criticizing. That might have had something to do with it. Maybe I should try reading it again.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Mik said in Word.:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Word.:

Can't beat Kerouac.

On The Road was a huge influence on me.

I can see that. Fits right in there in terms of the time, too, I guess.

I'm a much bigger Hunter S. Thompson fan, if we're talking that time period. I always felt like he was being square with you that much of the time he was just dicking around. Sure his hyperbole always had a point to it, and he got serious often enough, but you were always in on the joke.

Kerouac, on the other hand, always sounded like it was his mission to SAVE you. I found him annoying in much the same way that I find Springsteen annoying. (Speculation broadens here, but it's my theory that Salvador Dali wasn't such a nut because he was an eccentric creative—I think he was a genius draftsman who hated the fact that he wasn't a genius at something he thought was cooler, and his persona was an overcompensation. Kerouac's tone always struck me as a little suspicious in a similar way.)

Still like Kerouac, though.

[jon-nyc]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Word.:

Can't beat Kerouac.

I remember being excited to pick up On The Road. Turns out it’s boring AF and his trip was lame.

[Mik]

Also a fan of Hunter S. Thompson. He was a big influence as well, but probably not in the way he desired to be.

[Catseye3]

"As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity."

-- Hunter S. Thompson