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I personnaly did not like the book and found enjoying Scott Alexander's review quite a lot : https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/02/book-review-on-the-road/ http

• thatjoeoverthr 5y ago
  This review is brutal, I love it. > On The Road is, most importantly, a picture of a high-trust society collapsing. And it’s collapsing precisely because the book’s protagonists are going around defecting against everyone they meet It’s like the old cliche, “this is why we can’t have nice things.”
• MrBuddyCasino 5y ago
  In that case you might enjoy this one: https://extradeadjcb.substack.com/p/3-the-electric-kool-aid-acid-test https://extradeadjcb.substack.com/p/3-the-electric-kool-aid-...
• Amezarak 5y ago
  This review is perfect. I have always been totally and completely baffled by why people liked Kerouac and Ginsburg and company. They are awful people who go around doing incredibly awful things to everyone around them and they glorify it in writing. The writing isn't even good, you can find lots of people doing the same stuff able to write ecstatic justifications of it. It says almost as much about the period (and the present day, I suppose), that these people could be held up as icons of anything except examples of people who society should probably imprison or exile or something.