Squirrel’s Reviews > The Dharma Bums > Status Update

Is every Kerouac book about being in love with your oblivious best friend?

You know we'd call all these guys weeaboos nowadays.

>Claims to be anti-consumerism
>Spends a lot of time talking about getting fancy hiking gear

Like, I can sympathize as someone who's been in an REI, but it's one of the most glaring contradictions in the text between what the narrator advocates and what he does.