Kerouac's Week to Shine

San Francisco paper had this assessment:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/02/RVTBRKT0G.DTL

I re-read some of Kerouac in a Beat Generation anthology and I was a tad disappointed. Short confession: I've been re-reading Proust since January, slowly, savoringly, and have got to the part of the masterpiece where the character of Albertine is introduced. Now I have noticed that with few exceptions(books I read on vacation), since I've taken up Proust, nothing else has had a lot of appeal. Two books assigned for a plotting class? Put down each before 50 pages. Poisonwood Bible? Not quite into it. So, this seems to be something between me and Proust right now, and I am his faithful lover.

I haven't begun to write on long circuitous sentences, but that could happen, too. Ye gods!

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