On the Road by Jack Kerouac Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of On the Road
Book Review: 'A love letter to america'
Summary: 5 Stars
this IS a love letter to america, read it and think of a time when america was somthing to be loved. This is an essential book when it comes to modern american literature. don't be a snob and miss out on a passionate Jack Kerouac telling you a great american story.
I found this book on the nightstand of a one-nite-stand and my life hasn't been the same since. the girl is gone but Kerouac remains!
Book Review: - take your money elsewhere
Summary: 1 Stars
Ok, I heard all the hype about On the Road, mostly from reading Jim Morrison biographies and such during my teens, so when I was in college in '91 and hanging out at my favorite spot, the Broward County Library, I decided to look it up. And you know what? I thought it was the single most over-rated piece of garbage I'd ever read. I couldn't even finish it and believe me, I tried several times. I thought from previous reviews that I'd find a kindred spirit in Dean Moriarty, but he simply grew more and more pathetic as the book wore on. Kerouac sure made a statement with this book - too bad the statement was "I'm an insipid bore."Book Review: -More than a book-
Summary: 5 Stars
Many of you may not know it but Karouac is already in your head. "On the Road" is the true measure of greatness. This book will live on after most of us are dead.Book Review: ... this [was bad]
Summary: 1 Stars
I just finished reading this book as an assignment for a college history final. After page 150 I was really going nuts reading it. 20 pages into it the book just starts on a broken record repetition of the same thing. Kerouacs writing style is totally unimaginative and dull. The characters are highly detailed, but all the same, none show any initiative to accomplish anything in life other than "making it" with ever girl in sight. Drinking and uncured marijuana also play a heavy hand in the books story line, I was so enthused about just getting to the end so I could take my ... test. If this was the life of a beat or hippie, god save their souls.Book Review: ...and how did the story end?
Summary: 2 Stars
This book should come complete with a photo of Kerouac as he was at the end of his personal road: a swollen, hateful drunk living at home with his mother. Then his cirrhotic liver shut down and he died. Know it well, ye who pass here.