On The Road

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Summary: A book which makes sense to and of us all
Review: The depth, intelligence and descriptive brilliance which this book has been written with can not be rivalled. Kerouac challenges the reader to delve into their personal views on life as we have individually come to know it. The book will exhaust you.

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Summary: This is the way to live!
Review: I read this book at the advice of my father and I'm thankful he did. You'll want to be a beat. You'll want to hitch-hick and travel around with Sal and Dean and just watch the world roll under the tires and you will disown any sensible thoughts you had about your future and make plans to cross the country- Jack Kerouac style. This book is worth it!

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Summary: Yeah, I thought it was great, but--
Review: On The Road is easily one of the best books I've read. Although kind of cyclical--Sal and Dean set out, they settle down and lose touch, get together, set out, et cetera--this is not a bad thing, since life gets cyclical sometimes, whether you just bum around or actually have a 9 to 5 type life. But it is, sad to say, not the best novel of the 20th century. Certainly the best thing the beatniks had to offer, but not the best the 20th century had. While I think I'll reserve comment on what I think that book may be, I can say that On the Road at least ranks up there with it, and if someone where to do what the Film Institute did and do a list of the 100 greatest American novels of the 20th century, then frankly, this book would have to be there.

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Summary: The origional spontaneous prose book still shines today!
Review: Kerouac captures the complete joy and utter nonsense of life in this volume about the road. Kerouac uses the road as a symbol of freedom from the dictates that society forces on us. A must read!!

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Summary: A wonderful tale of life and the only way to live it.
Review: This book has changed many lives i beleive simply because it changed mine. Before reading this book i was clueless to so much. Sal Paradise's adventures with the true "characters" he was friends with revealed much about actually living rather than just being alive. This book opened up this pair of eyes to see things in a different light and how to write in a different light. Jack Kerouac is the best author of our time and "On The Road" as well as his many other books deserve more credit than they receive most definetly. He could put things into words so perfectly. He could write a life and if the words came true they would be a perfect life to be lived. I mean just read one of his books, "On The Road" i think is the best display of his great insights and powerful writing.

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Summary: Enlightening
Review: This was an Excellent book for adventure. The ideas which are expressed are captivating. Kerouac does a wonderful job at describing the scene and creating a feeling of involvement in the story. If you're looking for a representation of the Beat generation-this is the book to read. Nowadays, it is dangerous to hitch-hike, so live the experience through a book!

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Summary: A book to wrench feelings of life and living from our souls
Review: Kerouac released himself onto the pages of this book, and readers feel it as we journey with him over the land. From every sweaty bar and bedroom to the open skies of Iowa, we are transported to a magical time, and see it for all of the hope, beauty, and feeling that it was. It slaps my face every time I read it and long for a better time.

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Summary: Ad Nauseam
Review: It took me seven months to finish this book. 310 pages...seven months...if Sal and Dean went "on the road" one more time, I would have killed myself...This book should have been 100 pages...no more...possibly less...does this book have any redeeming value?...i got nothing from it...except for the feeling that i wasted seven months of my life...

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Summary: Truth Seeking
Review: Here is an author who is reaching out, towards the sky, and putting genius down on paper. It is a pleasure to see artists and authors do this. This kind of writing exposes "God" or in other words, the natural state of the world.

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Summary: Coffee and cigs sounds like the way to live.
Review: This is a wonderful book. It makes you want to junp on the back of a flat-bed truck and just let the scenes roll by.