S03 E04: On the Road

'It's hard to revisit something you loved so much as a kid, and just beat the shit out of it.' And yet here we are, looking back on a book that inspired 15-year-old Oli to believe in both travelling and literature. Does Jack Kerouac's great American novel still hold up over a decade later? Well yes, and no. The boys get stuck into whether the intoxicating Beat lifestyle still has the same appeal in your late 20s. And indeed, in the 21st Century. Was Kerouac an early Twitch-er? How spontaneously was this written? And what price do we pay for being for being original and not conforming? These are the big topics of the day, alongside hauntology, monster trucks and Late of the Pier. And in the end, does Sal manage to amicably untangle himself from Dean or is he, in Josh's words, 'a bit salty'? And just where in the hell is 'Denver Knuckle'? All that plus more in this episode of A Novel Adventure.       Apologies for JR's mic. He forgot to turn it on. He promises us it won't happen again.