when i first read it
by foolish_Paeter
Posted to What Are You Reading? on 2003-08-17 17:51:00
Parent message is 502481
I knew Nothing about Eastern religion and I followed just fine
Come to find out I was Buddhist, didn’t even know it until then
I still greatly prefer it to “On the Road.” Cassady grated on my nerves; Snyder is much easier to get along with. I always identify with Kerouac in those books though; on one end of the spectrum we have Cassady, then on the other end is Snyder, and then there’s Kerouac stuck in the middle