Jack Kerouac's On the Road

Each generation has habits that annoy the generation that came before it. When I witness the attacks on young men wearing their pants low, I have to remind my peers about how our generation wore pants backward along with fat untied shoe laces. On the Road is a novel about a group of people in an ealier generation. Jack Kerouac takes us along on a journey with a bunch of slackers as they move from state to state, job to job, and partner to partner, leaving behind bastard children. If someone tries to make you feel guilty about your generation's ills by saying how it was in their day, tell them to read Kerouac's On the Road.