Different kettle of kool-aid altogether. 
The Faulkner, tho SOC, is purposely put together 
into interlocking major themes - it's the Braxton/Iridium of novels. 
Kerouac's was written in three weeks on a single scroll of paper 
with no paragraph breaks - all in a big block of streamed text 
and meant to be like life lived - sprawling, inconsistent, 
occasionally daft, etc. There's a life lived and learned in both, 
but I think more natural and "real" in the Kerouac.