The Simpsons

dwardo99

So I'm watching The Simpsons the other night and it had a Hudson in it! Grandpa was telling about the time he bailed out of an
airplane he stole to impress a girl. it was an F-104
interestingly enough. He landed on the road and was picked up by Jack Kerouac.
Yes, the car in “On the Road” was a Hudson. I was just rolling. 

Frankvintagefullflowcom

I'd be curious to hear opinions about "On the Road". I read it recently and fought my way through it. I'd have given up but I was in a situation where I had absolutely nothing else to do for 4 days and I'd always wanted to read it, given the hype about the reference to Hudson in it.
Book reports anyone?
Frank

bob ward

Fighting your way through it is about right, I gave it a good try a few years ago, put it to to one side and haven't got back to it yet. 

I know its a classic and all that, but it was not all that readable. Maybe if it was my only reading material and there was nothing else to do for a few days I'd give it another try.

Frank, sent you a PM

Frankvintagefullflowcom

I'm a great one to criticize the writings of others, but I found it very difficult to follow. Names of characters just thrown at the reader without any explanation of how they fit into the story, as if I was supposed to already know who they are.
By the end I realized that I'd just forced my way through a story about drug/alcohol addiction......not really what I had expected but it did serve to squash any desire to read more of Jack's works.
Oh, well.
F