On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) | 
|  | | | Title: | On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) | | Author: | Jack Kerouac | | Publisher: | Penguin (Non-Classics) | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 01 June, 1999 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0140283293 / 9780140283297 | | List Price: | $16.00 | | You Save: | $5.12 | | Amazon Price: | $10.88 | |
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On The Road, 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, On The Road 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, On the Road 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.
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• Great Book About Youth 07 July, 2008
This is a great book and really shows the discovery of youth, good and bad. What did you do right out of high school? Right out of college? Backpack across Europe? Jump in a car with friends and travel the U.S.? Most don't, most never will. I read this book years ago and really enjoyed it. We can find pleasure in things when we are in our teens and even early 20's that will never bring us that same feeling again. Simple pleasures that we get so much more out of, before the grind of the 9 to 5, the stack of bills on the table, the notes from school, the news every night on TV, politics and the view of yourself in the mirror getting older and older, takes them away, right out of your hand and you're too busy trying to stop the clock from ticking to try to get them back. This is a book that reminded me of all the times I'd felt completely carefree. What will the book mean for you? I don't know, it depends on your own interests, but it made me smile and want to go "on the road."
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• The Classic Outlaw 01 September, 2008
All I can say is that if you've read this book, you know how amazing it is... it is a classic after all! If you have not read this, go out buy it, read it, and find someone else who has not read it. It almost seems to be a book that created an underground cult. I LOVE it...
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• The Day After Superman Died 26 May, 2008
I began this book with weary thoughts, suspecting some Beatles, hippie mumbo jumbo about life, love and drugs. I was right but also dead wrong. After reading it I can fully understand why this is thought of as the definitive read from the beat generation.
It's basically a crazed story on life on the road, of two friends who for a brief period becomes soul mates and experiences the real world as it is meant to be, on the road. The prose is filled with energy and your own imagination rushes along with the author's and at places even goes beyond his. I have read few books that does this to me in the same way, perhaps even none. Similarly to one of those well written Hemingway travel stories, you want to get out there - it makes you want to experience life - to find and be inspired by Dean Moriarty, the mighty road God.
I can't recommend this book highly enough, it is one to be read over and over again. To remind us that life is holy and to help us fully enjoy every precious moment of it.
- Reviewed by customer ID: ADXW0046R1OYO
• On The No-fun Read 05 July, 2008
I read this book in the 80's, back in the day when I had just discovered reading. I had high expectations. The book was part of a Contemporary Lit class, and I could not believe how boring it was. They would hitchhike, meet interesting characters, tell enough of the story to intrigue, and then they would move on, drinking, riding, and missing the big picture. The repitition, the blandness of what should have been an incredible journey, went on and on. Perhaps at the time it was written there was a little novelty. This book may be one of the most overrated of the 20th century.
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• Ehhh 30 May, 2008
I hate reading the long reviews... If I want to know what a books about I can find it ABOVE all the reviews... Sooo... This book was alright. Not very exciting. Mostly plotless, in my opinion. They drive to the west where they attempt to seduce women, drink, and smoke. Then they drive to the east where they do the same thing. Then they head on down to Mexico where they do the same thing yet again. I don't understand all the hype...? The book is a bit pretentious. I prefer The Catcher in the Rye or Into the Wild to this.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2A28SOHVFIUD0
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