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Literary achievement, less literature for me. Sections are incredible and rapturous but I truly can't help thinking parts are just showy for sake of it, verbose dense mass of reference and rereference inshallah. I'm a philistine ig, when there's no plot pushing you forward matching the literary mastery I cannot help finding reading a bit of a slog

Dublin trip

Mostly Kerouac on autopilot, wandering loose monologue from your drunk all-American uncle, complete with grumbles about youth of today (1967) and revisionist slights on all former friends. Flashes of effortless genius, last book he ever wrote and real end of the road cosmic nihilism last few pages, very moving

Mostly Kerouac on autopilot, wandering loose monologue from your drunk all-American uncle, complete with grumbles about youth of today (1967) and revisionist slights on all former friends. Flashes of effortless genius, last book he ever wrote and real end of the road cosmic nihilism last few pages, very moving

New Years paperback pulp

Confounding and fervently awkward; writing never upholds a rhythm you can ride so it feels like acid thoughts that alter scope in the palm of your hand. But it isn't so loose, it's an acutely deliberate post-colonial conspiracy about human's drifting away from human-focused principles into non-animated decadence. Difficult to love, often hard to read but impossible not to admire. Never again.

I’m going mad tryna read this fr

the intensity, quality and consistent defying of tropes in every sentence and analogy is remarkable fr

No one told me this is just unfiltered ramblings, two hundred pages on each theme reiterating the exact same stuff, engaging to a point but fuck this I'm dropping it

maybe first of his I’ve really enjoyed reading

les goooooo

reading toomany books

very glad this book exists

amazing so far 😶

charity shop

Seriously great, didn’t expect much but best Beatles book I’ve read new angles and seriously thrilling

sex

needed something more lighthearted good god