Kerouac's "On the Road" Uncensored
 

"On the Road" is to be released containing all of the sex and drugs the publishers edited out in the 50's.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060726/ap_en_ot/books_on_the_road;_ylt=Ag_B9F4z.f1VjDgBJ5D3yHMDW7o F;_ylu=X3oDMTBhZDhxNDFzBHNlYwNtZW5ld3M-

This is a post of yours i actually really like. What a great book.

Yeah I saw that....I'll prob. check it out when it comes out. On the Road is my third favorite Kerouac novel.

the pompousity of the whole kerouac thing kind of irritates me but i do like that book. i'll be sure to pick up a copy.

Kerouac wasn't pompous at all.

In actuality he was quite the opposite.

He lived at home with his mom, he was slightly reclusive...and he was the "tame" one of his wild bunch.

I don't know where you would get the word "pompous" to describe Kerouac...that really confuses me...

Now, Ginsburg on the other hand, was a pompous sonofabitch.

i don't mean that he was pompous, quite the contrary goes for him. i mean the pompousity of the kerouac thing. you know. it's cool to like kerouac and ginsberg and shit. you have to be a certain way. etc.
ginsberg was a pompous son of a bitch but i love him dearly.

Yeah I think he was just brutally honest in his writing about his experiences/feelings.....not pompous. However, he couldn't quite be completely honest with himself enough in his own life.

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the only book of his i've read yet, but i've read like 3 times.

I think i'll check dharma bums next

You fucking better....that's my favorite book eva.

People...It's spelled "Ginsberg."

i have 8 copies of on the road, kinda catcher in the rye like, but one of them is the 40th anniversary hardcover

I can tell by your signature that you're a fan of the beat generation.

I think kerouac is not that much of a great writer but I could see why he is way up there with literary greats. Maybe I haven't read the book that closely.

burroughs and kerouac are my second passion after SY

Some of the greatest story tellers that ever lived.

It's a classic. Leave it how it is. May not be how it was intended, but it should be left.

^True, but I'm still interested in the other naughty parts.

it would be fucking cool if they release a special scroll edition

Yeah that'd be nuts.

Ooh, these guys are so daring! They're dismissive of the bourgeoisie! They do DIRTY things! They write complex, stream of consciousness descriptions when they're cracked out! They're modest, yet condescending!

Man, these guys are so out there, they should have a bitchin' name. Let's call them "Beat." They get their own genre; plus it sounds really cool 'n that.

Kerouac = drugged out, financially strapped American on a road trip, who drank himself to death with cheap booze.

It's been done before, and it will be done again a million times over. It's a wonder what posthomous PR will do for a person.