How great is Jack Kerouac?

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  • Posts: 5,756
    I wanted to add my 2 cents about JK but don't want to argue with Helen all day. :p
    And Byrnzie isn't here to back me up.
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • Posts: 29,003
    TrixieCat wrote:
    I wanted to add my 2 cents about JK but don't want to argue with Helen all day. :p
    And Byrnzie isn't here to back me up.

    so what? you dont have the courage to support your own convictions? :)
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  • Posts: 18,095
    TrixieCat wrote:
    I wanted to add my 2 cents about JK but don't want to argue with Helen all day. :p
    And Byrnzie isn't here to back me up.
    :D no arguing to be done! Like I said I respect that everyone has different opinions when it comes to everything.. some people even like boring books :eek: :p;)
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • Posts: 18,095
    catefrances wrote:
    so what? you dont have the courage to support your own convictions? :)
    Stirrer :p
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • Posts: 5,756
    catefrances wrote:
    so what? you dont have the courage to support your own convictions? :)
    :p =sarcasm
    :)
    I have been down the Kerouac road with Helen before. No need to beat a dead horse. :)

    Helen, I just read the Road! Holy crapola. I picked it up because you had been talking about it. Thank you for that...I may have missed it and it really moved me.
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • Posts: 18,095
    TrixieCat wrote:
    :p =sarcasm
    :)
    I have been down the Kerouac road with Helen before. No need to beat a dead horse. :)

    Helen, I just read the Road! Holy crapola. I picked it up because you had been talking about it. Thank you for that...I may have missed it and it really moved me.
    Excellent! Glad to hear I talk sense sometimes :)

    Here's another one that blew me away recently

    http://www.amazon.com/Prisoner-Tehran-Memoir-Marina-Nemat/dp/1416537422





    I ended up having to leave ALL my books at home so am bookless :(
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • Posts: 29,003
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    Stirrer :p

    no stirring here. im just mindful of people who pay lip service to things with wit and deferential sarcasm whilst not actually addressing the original thought. :)
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  • Posts: 29,003
    TrixieCat wrote:
    :p =sarcasm
    :)
    I have been down the Kerouac road with Helen before. No need to beat a dead horse. :)

    Helen, I just read the Road! Holy crapola. I picked it up because you had been talking about it. Thank you for that...I may have missed it and it really moved me.

    helen is not the only reader of this thread. and whilst she may be fully aware of your thoughts on the subject of the drunken kerouac there are those of us who whilst interested are keep in the dark.

    whether you are aware of it or not trix, i am very respectful of your opinions and intelligence and as a reader of kerouac im interested to know not only your thoughts, but those of others.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • Posts: 5,756
    catefrances wrote:
    helen is not the only reader of this thread. and whilst she may be fully aware of your thoughts on the subject of the drunken kerouac there are those of us who whilst interested are keep in the dark.

    whether you are aware of it or not trix, i am very respectful of your opinions and intelligence and as a reader of kerouac im interested to know not only your thoughts, but those of others.
    post read.
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • Posts: 29,003
    TrixieCat wrote:
    post read.

    *sigh*


    for the record, im not so much a fan of on the road as i am of lonesome traveller
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  • Posts: 17,117
    lighten up francis :rolleyes:
  • Posts: 568
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    that's cool and I respect that everyone has different opinions... but, like chime, I struggle to remember any of the sections you refer to :o

    ahhh, where to start? the description of rolling through the hills in the west with no gas, the description of the party in the mountains, the discussion of how "normal" people aren't happy unless they have something to worry about. I wish I could be more specific but I don't really feel like digging out my copy, but it's all funny and its true and its things that are worth experiencing. Perfect travel book, its always one of my companions on my solo backpacking trips, just makes you appreciate being alive and free and not tied down to anything.
    "Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH..."
  • Posts: 29,003
    my2hands wrote:
    lighten up francis :rolleyes:

    who the fuck are you? this is not your concern. trix doesnt want or feel the need to engage me, thats her prerogative. and i can respect that. she surely doesnt need you to put your 2 cents worth in. and nor do i.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
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    i just need to say
  • Posts: 435
    catefrances wrote:
    who the fuck are you? this is not your concern. trix doesnt want or feel the need to engage me, thats her prerogative. and i can respect that. she surely doesnt need you to put your 2 cents worth in. and nor do i.

    yeah lighten up
  • Posts: 29,003
    jasonw wrote:
    yeah lighten up

    see post #34. :)
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    catefrances wrote:
    see post #34. :)

    you mean the one that i quoted?
  • Posts: 19,646
    catefrances wrote:
    oh please :rolleyes: LMFAO!! you wouldve been potsie and im sure im not the only one that thinks so. :p:D

    you sad sacks know i'd be the fonz... and i'm not the only one to think that. ;)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Posts: 19,646
    jasonw wrote:
    yeah lighten up


    is this thread sponsored by an electricity company :confused:
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Posts: 2,873
    dunkman wrote:
    you sad sacks know i'd be the fonz... and i'm not the only one to think that. ;)
    You'd be Ron Howard without the ginger hair and you know it. Kind of odd considering you're Scottish :D
    I'll Ride The Wave Where It Takes Me
  • Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Unless you're American or there's something wrong with you, you grow out of Jack Kerouac after about the age of fifteen.



    *Runs* :D

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