Mélanctha Herbert perdait toujours ce qu'elle avait en voulant avoir tout ce qu'elle voyait. On lâchait toujours Mélanctha alors qu'elle ne lâchait pas les autres.
One of the main reasons that I decided to read this book, other than the fact that it happens to be a modern classic, is because I was reading an article in a Christian magazine that was complaining about how this book, and the motor car in general, is responsible for the promiscuous, permissive, an...
I liked some parts of Kerouac's signature novel more than others, but unlike a lot of other Readers have put it in their comments, I wouldn't consider it that bad a story. I admit that sometimes, the story got quite lengthy and I really felt for the old aunt always being tricked into giving "Sal" m...
Yeah, yeah. I couldn't care about the irresponsible, chauvinistic and ignorant protagonist and his witless quest.Since writing the above I have read the PhD thesis of my friend, Loni Reynolds, on spiritual and religious themes in the Beats. After reading it I sent her this email:Hi Loni,Thanks so mu...
I watched the film version of On the Road the other night, and while watching it I couldn’t help but compare Sal Paradise, Dean Moriarity and their fellow beats to the inhabitants of Cannery Row, more specifically Mack and the boys from the Palace Flophouse. That is, there aren’t that many similarit...
I got this book for a class in college. It's one of my favorites! It's filled with wonderful short stories, that are intriguing and entertaining. I highly recommend this book!
I loved the rolling descriptions of traveling across America, the descriptions of the transient people Sal meets, but after a few trips across the US, I felt that the rolling beautiful descriptions were spaced farther and farther apart by more encounters with Dean Moriarty.I understand the appeal of...
Madness, friends, and longing.
Well, after all the no doubt hundreds of thousands of words that have been written about this book, there's little or nothing left I could write that would edify anybody. That leaves me with my own emotional reaction, which was ambivalent at best. I am too old to be reading this book for the first t...
I read this book for the first time in high school, stuck in Kentucky, hearing the call of the open road. It felt great to know that there were other people in the world who wanted to just GO, cruising the highways into the unknown with the windows down, throwing responsibility into the breeze. Af...
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