On the Road

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Summary: "I dig you, man!"
Review: Certainly one of the best books I have and probably will ever read. Nothing will please me more than continually revisiting the mad happy adventures of Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise and their maniac friends. Kerouac is one of the most gifted writers to ever grace American soil and deserves his place in American literature. No one else captures the beautiful insanity of the beat generation as well as he does. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves the pure joy of reading. "Yes! Yes! Yes!"

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Summary: Inspiring adventures for todays youth lost in debt and place
Review: The imagination is a keen and marvellous tool. On the road, allowed me to place myself along side Dean and Sal as they made there way through and through to the West, to the East, back again , and South. It was Dean Moriarty who I took a particular liking to, thanks to Sal's(Jack) jazzy styles. Dean's child-like behaviour of absorbing it all, then explosively releasing in sharp detail. Cities, music, women, children, good converstaions and the road. Sal and Dean, hand in hand and on the road. Literally, figuratively together in memory.

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Summary: Every word Kerouac wrote in "On the Road" blessed my soul
Review: this book was very good. before i read it i was sad, but when i was done i was happy all over. every word that kerouac wrote blessed my soul. every day i dream about the fields of ogalalla, nebraska, seeing the eastern front range of colorado, and arriving, as i watch the sun set and my mind very much at ease, to the rolling green hills of san fransisco. this book is an inspiring story of two friends, characters who may remind you of yourself, in wich case it will be all the more moving, who live life always on the go and never expectant of what will happen tomorrow. once you've read it you too will dream of life as it should be. i'll see you along on the way.

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Summary: Seek and Ye Shall Find!!!
Review: For the love of all that was and is good in the realm of world and soul READ THIS BOOK!!! Kerouac's characters/friends/entities come alive in this tale of a journey in and through a better, gentler time in the history of America. Keoruac has been blessed with the gift of being able to pluck gems out of the souls of strangers and put them into words - all of the time keeping our eyes open to the buildings and breath that surround him from the back of pickups , through the trainyards, and into the beat young cities of an exhaustively complacent America. 'On The Road' is a permanent reminder of a time when the youth looked through the world with the eyes of voracious inexperience and coddeled innocence. However long ago the quest of Jack Paradise began, the truths, triumphs and fragility of the human soul continue today in a very different America. After reading 'On The Road' it is difficult not to feel a sense of loss and longing for something we feel that we should have, could have, and would have. Turn the first page and embark on Jack's journey, close the last and begin your own.

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Summary: Unbelievably vivid and moving account
Review: This book is SLAMMIN

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Summary: Like, not cool daddy-o
Review: Shave off your goatees all you wannabe beatniks, this book is no bible. It's 200 dull pages about losers who spend most of their time waiting for something to happen. There's no plot, no story. Just hipsters who are not all that hip

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Summary: This book is life
Review: Riding with Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty is truly one of the great literary adventures of this century. The passion and beauty that this novel conveys resembles the splendor of the untamed America. This wonderful dance is full of spontaniety and vigor. The complex movements flow into simple turns, then back again. At times quiet at other times outrageous this book is the unleashed excitement and the hidden sensitivity of humanity. Sal and Dean's quest for truth, love, and fufillment is the voyage every being must take on the road to finding who they are..."the road is life."- this book is life

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Summary: Read it again
Review: Clearly, the place of Kerouac's On the Road as one of America's greatest novels of the twentieth century no longer needs to be justified. To acknowledge that this text defined Kerouac's generation and informed each successive generation goes without saying. When, however, a reader begins to strip away the thin veneer (Michel Foucault would call this "archaeology") of Kerouac's "autobiographical" novel what one finds is something more resonating and universal than simply two guys getting their "kicks" while traveling the roads of America. The common, albeit fallacious, belief that Kerouac wrote this novel in three days undermines the numerous revisions and deletions that make up the final published book that we know as On the Road. Kerouac carefully constructed his texts around a vast personal knowledge of literature and the myths of his country. In fact Kerouac hadn't even written his dictum on "Spontaneous Prose" when this novel was published (read Visions of Cody for the spontaneous rendering of On the Road). When the book is read slowly, with a critical eye, what one finds is a broad picaresque tapestry loaded with symbolism and American folklore that develops and unfolds in a clearly developmental way. Each trip across the country is for a different reason and has its own agenda--this is the true, though often unrealized, beauty of the book. The inability of Sal and Dean to find satisfaction at any given point in their travels not only attests to their personal restlessness but, in Kerouac's hands, becomes a human restlessness that crosses all ages and continents. Of course, by inextricably tying human restlessness to the "American dream" Kerouac presents a view of life where the "ideal" and the "real" can never exist cohesively. More importantly, the book is about our own mortality as a country and as individuals. If you've read this book once, read it again

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Summary: Mixing up the medicine
Review: Don't run with scissors, man

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Summary: One of The Finest Books I've Ever Read.
Review: One of the few books that had me laughing aloud and cursing the reality I laughed at during the course of the same exhaustive exhalation. There is no better beat philosophy literature out there and there is no better book than On The Road