What Book Are You Reading? -- Part V

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Ryan: i saw an edition of the original scroll of On the Road for sale the other day (original as in, three times as big as the original edition, and the names are still the real names so Sal is Jack (and he’s québécois, rather than italian) and Dean is Neal etc). it was also full of essays spanning from biographical notes to weird attempts at literary apotheosis claiming Jack changed world literature. (i still think of On the Road as a nice but mild book… a best seller, something i’d put in the same shelf as the Kite Runner).

changed world literature? that’s a bit… much, don’t you think.

I did really like the book, but it in no way ‘changed world literature’

it’s definitely mild. Something you read for fun and only for fun, though i suppose that’s why i liked it so much. Lord knows how little i can stand analyzing the hell out of books until they just aren’t fun anymore.

changed world literature?! heh.

I’ll check out the motercyclemagigger. Though ironically i was thinking about looking for Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which is quite the similar premise to On The Road.

Thanks for the suggesstion, anywho. My suggestion is still Slaughterhouse V.

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