I had wondered a lot about the beat generation and I have to say that On The Road is a brilliant book. Not beautiful, mind you. I believe that this book is brilliant because it's real and it's a good portrait of the American society in the fifties. This reading is not something I can easily define. ...
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...
More like 2.5 stars. I didn't like this book the way I thought I would. Better said, actually, I didn't like the book the way I thought I should. I didn't really like any of the characters and the fact that this story was somewhat real.. I didn't like that either. This Dean Moriarty guy? I loathed h...
Yikes, where to begin. As the film was released to such an iconic novel it seemed important to read the novel first (iconic enough to consider seeing a movie with Kristen Stewart in). Not only that, but the novel also appears on the 1001 Books: You Must Read Before You Die list. So, Amazon Marketpla...
This book's influence on me can't be overstated. I took a class on the Beat Generation in tenth grade, which is right when all the kicks seem most dazzling, and I thought yes! This is the crazy bohemian life! And I spent the next ten years trying to be a Beatnik. I hitchhiked from Atlanta to Philade...
The thing that kept running through my head this entire novel was "For Christ's sake Dean can't you just keep it in your pants?" No wonder a number of men have never grown up if this was their ideal. A good portion of the so called innocence in this novel really is ignorance and we won't even get in...
They're just good ol' boys never meaning no harm, making their way the only way they know how, but that's just a bit more than the law will allow...The characters of Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's On the Road are 20th Century equivalents of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer: boys having joy...
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