false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1201553083m/45541.jpg 70401 89 <i>On The Road</i>, 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, <i>On The Road</i> 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, <i>On the Road</i> 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. 1701188 book 1957 On the Road total:39327|5:10415|4:12908|3:9827|2:4318|1:1859| 39327 143683 51189 3234 70401 0140042598 9780140042597 32188 2501 3.65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1216748331m/70401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70401.On_the_Road 1 71 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Sat Sep 29 15:35:47 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 30 09:44:12 -0700 2007
I deeply ...more...]]> 70401 0140042598 9780140042597 32188 2501 3.65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1216748331m/70401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70401.On_the_Road 4 16 false Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Sat Jun 09 11:53:43 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 13 09:19:47 -0700 2007
When I first read this book, I loved it as a piece of art, but its effect on me was different than I expected. So many people hail Kerouac as the artist who made them quit their...more...]]> 70401 0140042598 9780140042597 32188 2501 3.65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1216748331m/70401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70401.On_the_Road 3 11 false Sun Aug 03 12:37:42 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 13:06:24 -0700 2008 Things I liked about On the Road.
-It's a hymn to wild rides, all-night conversations with strangers, lunacy, letting life happen, and getting out of your life and experiencing the world.

-The energetic, random, bursting-with-possibility, jazz-inspired prose. I listened to the audiob...more...]]> 70401 0140042598 9780140042597 32188 2501 3.65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1216748331m/70401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70401.On_the_Road 1 10 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 21:37:56 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 13:38:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 70401 0140042598 9780140042597 32188 2501 3.65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1216748331m/70401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70401.On_the_Road 4 8 false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Tue May 06 11:22:55 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 11:25:32 -0700 2008
Sure, they are jerks and they are bums and they are full of a lot of BS but as the book progresses, it becomes ...more...]]> 70401 0140042598 9780140042597 32188 2501 3.65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1216748331m/70401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70401.On_the_Road 1 11 false Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 1996 Tue Apr 24 11:27:53 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 25 06:34:03 -0700 2007 On the Road, right? Well, I don't. I hate it and I always have. There are a lot of reasons why I hate it. I find Kerouac's attitude toward the world pathetically limited and paternalistic. In On the Road he actually muses about how much he wishes that he could have been born "...more...]]> 70401 0140042598 9780140042597 32188 2501 3.65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1216748331m/70401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70401.On_the_Road 3 11 false Fri Dec 21 18:09:36 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 18:23:52 -0800 2007 more...]]> 315233 0140185216 9780140185218 1150 152 3.65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173694422m/315233.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/315233.On_the_Road 4 6 false Tue Jul 31 06:24:05 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 20 04:50:50 -0700 2007 On The Road, wrote, "It's hard for me to summon any more 'critical distance' toward On the Road than I can toward the shape of my own face or the smell of my own sweat." I feel much the same way. For me, On the R...more...]]> 70401 0140042598 9780140042597 32188 2501 3.65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1216748331m/70401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70401.On_the_Road 5 10 false Fri Feb 01 09:00:46 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 01 09:01:30 -0800 2008
I was in school at the Merchant Marine Academy. I was nineteen years old; a Georgia boy. I had no business being there. The deal at the academy is that you do six months of your Sophomore year and six months of your Junior years at sea. At least that’s how it used to be. I hear they are ...more...]]> 70401 0140042598 9780140042597 32188 2501 3.65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1216748331m/70401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70401.On_the_Road 5 3 false Tue Nov 06 05:27:43 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 06 05:27:43 -0800 2007 On the Road doesn’t seem like a particularly easy novel to identify with. On one hand, it has themes that everyone can relate to: escapism, self-discovery, and personal growth. On the other hand, Kerouac wrote something very reactionary to what his surroundings were at the time; ...more...]]> 70401 0140042598 9780140042597 32188 2501 3.65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1216748331m/70401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70401.On_the_Road 3 3 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Thu Aug 02 21:13:29 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 28 15:12:04 -0700 2007 more...]]> 70401 0140042598 9780140042597 32188 2501 3.65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1216748331m/70401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70401.On_the_Road 3 3 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 27 16:57:57 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 23:56:56 -0700 2007 more...]]> 70401 0140042598 9780140042597 32188 2501 3.65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1216748331m/70401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70401.On_the_Road 5 5 false Sat Feb 23 19:53:36 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 23 19:53:36 -0800 2008 more...]]> 417058 0670063266 9780670063260 99 18 3.65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185837450m/417058.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/417058.On_the_Road_50th_Anniversary_Edition 2 2 true Thu Apr 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 16:35:44 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 11:44:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 70401 0140042598 9780140042597 32188 2501 3.65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1216748331m/70401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70401.On_the_Road 5 2 false Wed Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 13:46:25 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 11:52:43 -0700 2008
So much has been written about Jack Kerouac's On the Road, that I am not really going to write a review. I will pose my thoughts.

I think that for that half-dozen of people who know nothi...more...]]> 70401 0140042598 9780140042597 32188 2501 3.65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1216748331m/70401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70401.On_the_Road 5 4 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Sat Sep 22 17:54:02 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 22 19:07:36 -0700 2007 more...]]> 45536 0142437255 9780142437254 1111 120 3.65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170292478m/45536.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45536.On_the_Road 5 2 false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Jul 05 11:09:08 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 11:10:49 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3766 0140283293 9780140283297 2843 230 3.65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165357776m/3766.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3766.On_the_Road 4 3 false Tue Mar 06 13:55:51 -0800 2007 Mon Aug 20 19:36:38 -0700 2007
"Twenty years ago, like so many slack 17-year-olds before and since, I devoured “On the Road” and it devoured me. The pages of my copy were dog-eared, -nosed and -throa...more...]]> 70401 0140042598 9780140042597 32188 2501 3.65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1216748331m/70401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70401.On_the_Road 2 3 false Fri Jun 29 18:48:54 -0700 2007 Sat Mar 08 11:51:58 -0800 2008 Jessica, but I don't think I could rant so poetically. Let me sum it up in my own abrupt way: This book is a travesty. This book wasted approximately four hours of my life. The entire Beat movement is awful, and I tried really hard to like it, back when I smoke...more...]]> 70401 0140042598 9780140042597 32188 2501 3.65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1216748331m/70401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70401.On_the_Road 4 12 false Wed Nov 11 06:34:49 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 12:42:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=45541