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by: Jack Kerouac
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780142437254
ISBN: 0142437255
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: December 31, 2002
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Sales Rank: 9684
Studio: Penguin Classics
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Jack Kerouac's classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be 'Beat' and has inspired every generation since its initial publication more than forty years ago.
Introduction by Ann Charters
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Rating:  - I had an easier time reading a Medical Textbook
Call it being kind of modernized, but how can anyone follow this book? The writing doesn't flow naturally. It's like a bad fanfiction.
Rating:  - A book of people and places
On the Road is an amazing book in many ways. It is remarkable in that it doesn't have a plot, so much as events which don't have much in the way of interconnectedness. On the Road is a book of people and places, showing Kerouac's love for travel and his skill for making memorable and dynamic characters. Despite this lack of plot, On the Road is an interesting book, owing to the memorable characters which inhabit it. It is the erratic actions of these characters which drive the book forward, and create ... Read More
Rating: - Inspiring Read
This book is special to me, as I live in the city and drink in the bar where Kerouac once graced with his presence. I read this book in the thick of the semester so it took me longer than usual to finish, but it was by far the best novel I have ever read. You will learn in the forward by Ann Charters that Kerouac spent seven years "on the road" but took only three weeks to type the preliminary version of his novel. Kerouac was an alcoholic and part-time dope-fiend, which I strongly feel contributed to ... Read More
Rating: - So that is what the fuss is about
Oftentimes I've heard so much about a writer's amazing talent only to be disappointed when I get around to reading his/her work. Ayn Rand falls into this category to a degree and Bukowski falls all the way into it--but not Kerouac.
I don't know if Jack captured the heartbeat of a generation. I don't know if Jack motivated even one person to actually get "on the road". I do know that this is a book written with the skill of a master storyteller. Jack didn't try to convince you of anything ... Read More
Rating:  - It's Not Literature, It's a History Lesson in Arrogance and Stupidity
I've tried to read this book at three different points in my life. I read it again recently, thinking that I was too young to get it when I read it as a teenager and that this time around it would make sense. I still can't stand this book. Basically it's a bunch of drug-using, abusive, adulterous, self-centered, arrogant, pseudo-intellectual eggheaded jerks trying to freeload as much as they can with no regard to anyone or anything but themselves. No wonder this book was so popular with rock stars. If ... Read More
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