Rip John Lennon

Well, I read all of Kerouac back when I was a youngin', so I do not know if my reaction would be the same now, and that is indeed a good point.

"On the Road" is far from his best book.

His writing has always struck me as genuine, if nothing more. I do not think that there is depth within the writing itself, but more within the style and the flow. You will not find deep ideas, but you will find a whole lot of life.

It's kinda hard to compare Jack to Allen, it would be easier if Ginsberg wrote much long fiction.

 

After loving the fuck out of "On the Road", "The Dharma Bums" was a bit of a letdown for me.. I enjoyed it, it flowed well but something was lacking.

I should check out the rest of his stuff soon. So many books to read, such a short life..

 

i agree with virtually all of this

while i dont necessarily like jack kerouac for the reasons i've listed, i do not doubt how genuine it was.

 

You really should read more of his stuff.

It's entertaining, if anything.

 

while i know "on the road" is often considered his most overrated, its also often considered his magnum opus. i found it -INTENSELY- boring and unpleasant throughout most of it.

this is in drastic opposition to dharma bums, though it, and a few other shorter works, allowed/caused me to view dharma bums in a different light.

i will at some point read more of his stuff, i'm sure, but i'm skeptical that it is all that good.

anyway, i suppose we've strayed from the point quite a bit. oh well

 

I believe that's why I never got into Kerouac. The first and only book I tried to his was "On The Road", I couldnt finish it. Maybe I should give him another chance and pick up another one.

 

no worries, the ending was the most dissappointing and anticlimactic of any book i've ever read.

i felt emptier having read it, rather than enriched

 

Oh I wouldnt try reading that book again (I tried like 2 different times), but maybe another one of his.

 

i did love dharma bums for a while.

it has its charm.

i'd give it a shot if i were you, its much better.

 

I'll keep it in mind. John already has a million books for me to read. I've started lots of them, but Im not quite the avid reader as I used to be. I'm gonna go ahead and blame HF

It's just very important that I pick the right book at the right time. If im not glued to the book, I most likely wont finish it.

 

Check out Marilyn Manson's cover of "Working Class Hero".

It's better than the original.

 

while manson's version is more my style of music than the original, it takes a lot for me to consider a cover to actually be better than its original, since the original is actually an original piece of music and the cover is really just stealing someone else's song and changing it slightly.

there's several covers that i prefer over their originals, but i still don't usually consider the covers to actually be better.

 

Several of Nirvana's covers are also better than originals, in my opinion, and I don't even like Nirvana that much.

 

Jeff Buckley's cover of Hallelujah was massively more popular (imo better) than the original. Heck, I was just listening to a cover of a Miley Cyrus song by some band who made it tonnes better.

 

Someone covered Miley Cyrus?

 

haha... yep. xD

I have a CD by NME of covers actually and then my friend sent me a few of Kate Nash's ones.

 

That's blasphemy.

You should be shot for that statement.

No single Nirvana cover is better than the original. Not one.

 

Art is subjective if anything...

 

Have you heard the original "Lake of Fire" by The Meat Puppets, for example? Sounds like cats getting raped.

I'm not saying they outdid Bowie on "The Man Who Sold The World", of course although it's a fair version.

 

Yeah, but those are my boobs the picture is on. Just to clear things up.