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On the Road

by: Jack Kerouac

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780140042597
ISBN: 0140042598
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: December 28, 1976
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)

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Editorial Review:
On The Road, the most famous of Jack Kerouac's works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing, On The Road is thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life friends, lovers, and fellow travelers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac's alter-egos, On the Road is a cross-country bohemian odyssey that not only influenced writing in the years since its 1957 publication but penetrated into the deepest levels of American thought and culture.
First published in 1957, this novel epitomized to the world the Beat philosophy. It chronicles a spontaneous and wandering life style founded both on jazz and drug-induced visions.

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- My perspective
I rather think On The Road is the kind of book that will either appeal to someone or it won't. I guess most books are that way. But I see so many disparaging reviews either here or in the discussion section that I wanted to start by acknowledging that point.

Personally, I loved the book enough to write a companion reader for it (The Beat Handbook: 100 Days of Kerouactions), so right up front I have a bias and thought you should know about that.

Objectively, it's important ... Read More

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- Boring and pointless
As far as I can tell, this book is about girls, hitchhiking, and partying. After 100 pages and no plot in sight, I put the book down. A total waste of time.

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- On the Road Revisited: How Has It Aged?
As I age, look back and revisit books and states of mind, I find my aesthetic interlocutor diminishing the significance of the beats and all things beatnik (along with other things that don't apply to this review). Too much of what was beat seems in retrospect self-promotion. Certainly, Kerouac was a passionate cat, but whatever truths he offered--buddhistic and otherwise--don't fit well with the alcoholic he became, or the anti-Semitic remarks that occasionally burst out of him. Ginsberg, according ... Read More

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- The Classic Outlaw
All I can say is that if you've read this book, you know how amazing it is... it is a classic after all! If you have not read this, go out buy it, read it, and find someone else who has not read it. It almost seems to be a book that created an underground cult. I LOVE it...

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- Great book about youth
This is a great book and really shows the discovery of youth, good and bad. What did you do right out of high school? Right out of college? Backpack across Europe? Jump in a car with friends and travel the U.S.? Most don't, most never will. I read this book years ago and really enjoyed it. We can find pleasure in things when we are in our teens and even early 20's that will never bring us that same feeling again. Simple pleasures that we get so much more out of, before the grind of the 9 to 5, ... Read More

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