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Just finished On The Road (I was only 2/3 of the way through it for our book club last Friday though. Oops.)
Often frustrating and irritating but quite remarkable given how long he took to write it. Half way through and I could have put it down never to pick it up again but I'm glad I pressed on. He just avoids it becoming annoyingly repetitive. Also brought back lots of memories (having lived in or visited many of the places in the book); not the drugs, whisk[e]y or jazz.
Read it while you're young, most of the older readers tolerated its style less so.
Awaiting what is next but just ordered What I talk about when I talk about running. Other than that I have about 100 books in various piles to read, which is bad since I end up reading about 10 non-technical books a year (books like Introduction to Analytic Number Theory or Version control with git do not count).