Who recommends it
- Cas OneInterview
I have On the Road by Jack Kerouac. I’m excited to think that one day I will break the part of my brain that would call myself an insufferable hipster and just read it without judging myself.
- Tamler SommersInterview
Too many to list, but off the top of my head – Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Mortal Questions by Thomas Nagel, Shame and Necessity by Bernard Williams, On the Road by Jack Kerouac (everyone should go through a Kerouac phase…
- Alice PasquiniInterview
The ones I read went very well! There were often about traveling and unique families. On the Road by Jack Kerouac, The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Family Sayings by Natalia Ginzburg and Monsieur Malaussène by Daniel Pennac.
- Jeff KreislerInterview
You mean, besides The Karma Sutra? On The Road by Jack Kerouac or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson. I’ve done 5 cross-country drives myself, mostly trying to find my own moments like those. They’d be awesome.
- Albert JackInterview
I wouldn’t mind being in one of the Beat writers books. Say one of the characters in On The Road by Jack Kerouac or perhaps Junky. Life seemed pretty interesting during that post-war period. It probably wasn’t though. It was mostly mundane I expect. But that is what makes books great, they can transport you there and…
- Mark SissonInterview
- Peter RodulfoInterview
Knulp by Herman Hesse. Shortly before reading this as a young teenager, I had read On The Road by Jack Kerouac; I had a highly disciplined upbringing and perhaps as a response to this I found the idea of the hobo had a great appeal. Although Kerouac’s dissolute life was attractive I found that Knulp, a slim and simple…
- Fin TaylorInterview
I like a polemic. At the moment that’s what I’m reading a lot of, I like other people’s opinions and how they defend them. In terms of fiction, I like quite dark stuff. I absolutely cannot stand Jack Kerouac, I think it’s nonsense. I tried reading On The Road once, I was on the tube, and I realised there were more…
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