The Poverty Jet Set - Latest Comments in ‘On the Road’ Turns 50

Re: ‘On the Road’ Turns 50

magdalenus — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:22:46 -0000

I love Neal Cassady, too, of course. My friend Jim McAvoy used to call me Neal Cassady all the time when I lived in Telluride and would drive through Boulder where he lived and crash on his couch all the random time.

That reminds me about how I've always meant to write about the time I was traveling through San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, where he died. Hmmm...

I've seen that Haiku poetry, somewhere. I'd love to read some of them again!

Re: ‘On the Road’ Turns 50

joshua — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:29:22 -0000

my friend got me a book of his haiku poetry and some of them were incredible.

Re: ‘On the Road’ Turns 50

nat — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:04:08 -0000

Synchronous as usual, my current hero du jour is the guy on the left, Jack's inspiration for this book, Neal Cassady. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Cassady

Not that I plan on becoming the fastest man alive, or even sampling many pharmies ending in "edrine", but Neal still rocks!

Re: ‘On the Road’ Turns 50

Jimmy CraicHead — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:02:53 -0000

Oh I so tried to get into this book back in 1981 or so but I thought it was so yadda yadda. I asked another Drexel classmate at the the time and he agreed that it was another road trip experience that we had all been doing all along. I need to re read this book, more in the context of what I've learned in the last 25 years and more importantly, what I've learned what USA was like before all the highways were built. My generation is so jaded!
Jimmy Craic Head

Re: ‘On the Road’ Turns 50

Audrey — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:50:26 -0000

Didn't he originally write On the Road on one long scroll-like piece of paper that he could roll up and carry around? Ann Charter's Kerouac biography IS really interesting. I read a copy of it that you lent me, but it was falling apart, and by the time i got halfway through the book it was completely unbound.