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Originally Posted by Sonic Youth 37
Okay, bookies. I'm going to buy a copy of On The Road next week and I want to know if I should get the standard published copy or the "original scroll" edition?
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The standard, published copy. The novel's editing was justifiable - the scroll edition has no breaks and is littered with bad grammer (I don't mean that in a pedantic way - I mean it's confusing enough as to be unreadable). Without the editing, it's too self-indulgent as to be worth the bother of finding the good bits.
The only good thing about it is he uses the real names and is a bit more open about a few of them having sex with each other. Not that it makes a difference if you're not interested in the beats themselves.
I've been reading 101 Reykjavik. I like it, really reminds me of Martin Amis (Success, Money-era): the prose has a beat-like rhythm, everything is refracted through a knowledge of low pop.culture, lots of philosphical analogies between people/things and what brands, TV shows, groups, they represent - should be annoyingly hip but isn't somehow.