tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post6570919099060641549..comments2023-06-27T01:34:35.359-07:00Comments on Ted Burke LIKE IT OR NOT: "On the Road" turns fiftyTED BURKEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16610296721891201100noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post-76314908755369500022007-08-09T06:58:00.000-07:002007-08-09T06:58:00.000-07:00Easy there, Wilbur.Easy there, Wilbur.TED BURKEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16610296721891201100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post-4797059737437604832007-08-08T22:22:00.000-07:002007-08-08T22:22:00.000-07:00Kerouac was a speed freak, known as a tweaker... T...Kerouac was a speed freak, known as a tweaker... This is tweaker lit. I'm going to get some crack and start writing...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13775656803105470063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post-14012035049476890652007-08-08T09:02:00.000-07:002007-08-08T09:02:00.000-07:00I'm a sober drunk myself, and it's funny how readi...I'm a sober drunk myself, and it's funny how reading tastes change after you take the pledge. It's about growing up, I guess. On the Road will be read because it was precisely a perfect document of a moment and a mood of it's time, and I agree with you about Ginsberg. His early work, at least, is for the ages.TED BURKEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16610296721891201100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post-37630808312542465572007-08-08T07:29:00.000-07:002007-08-08T07:29:00.000-07:00I think I was seventeen when I read On the Road......I think I was seventeen when I read On the Road...for some reason I was really impressed with the fact that it was typed on a single roll of paper. Unfortunately, I strove to emulate those shiftless drunks (and another then idol, Bukowsky). My liver doesn't thank me, though I've since changed my ways.<BR/>Still, reread it a couple of years ago and found it interesting as a slice of history. I think Ginsberg is the only one of that group whose writing still holds up for me.kolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07648985808921944343noreply@blogger.com