Tristessa by Jack Kerouac (1992)

Well, I'm kind of on the fence with this book. I'm trying to expand my literary horizons and have started to read some of the beat authors such as Kerouac and Burroughs. This book was like reading poetry, at first...then his improper and/or lack of punctuation started to make it difficult to read. I'm sure this was intentional, but it really started to get irritating. The story itself was a good story, I enjoyed it, though I was disappointed it didn't have the ending I felt the book needed. I really enjoyed William S. Burroughs style of writing better, but I have only read one book from each of the writers, so we'll see how I feel after some more 'research'. ( )

I started reading On The Road once upon a time, but gave up 50 pages in because of how immensely boring it was, particularly the prose style. This one has more the sort of prose I hoped for from him- poetic, free flowing stream-of consciousness type stuff. And much shorter. Unfortunately, though, nothing at all happens. ( )