On the Road is definitely a period piece and won’t last a few more decades in the public consciousness. It’s very poorly written. I think Kerouac boasted he wrote it in two weeks. Yea I can fucking tell. It’s such poor human representation it has zero literary merit. We read this in undergrad a few years ago and my professor, a boomer, said it was his favorite book. None of my classmates liked it. I remember me and a classmate talking about how crappy it was. I know Kerouac isn’t a boomer but nobody but boomers praise it. I don’t know why. The characters are totally flat. Who gives a shit about its ideas of freedom or open road or rebellion if you got no characters to sell them.