On the Road by Jack Kerouac Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of On the Road
Book Review: A Timepiece.
Summary: 5 Stars
What can be said about Kerouac that has not already been abused? I am not sure, but I can say that this is a book that you will remember forever. If you have ever been on a journey of any kind you will flow with the tide of this book peacefully.Book Review: A Trip to Take
Summary: 3 Stars
Jack Kerouvac totally describes a classic trip from the east cosat to the west coast. The freedom of moving from one place to another without boundaries, when the whole point is to follow some dreams and explore on your own what it means to live and take risks.Sal and friends give all their trips everything they can, they hitchhike evrey where, they meet all sorts of people, but at the end that only makes them see more clearly the differences that exist between them...
The best way to know someone is to travel with them...Kerouvac succeeded, let me know what you think, OR ELSE...
Book Review: A Wonderful Ride in Prose
Summary: 5 Stars
Jack Kerouac, a modern pop icon, was also a wonderful innovator in prose. Some may say that On the Road is wild, disjointed, and that it lacks a plot any kind and s more of a travelogue than a narrative. Well, all these things are true, but anyone who reads On the Road and sees only that is not looking at the greater literary beauty behind the book.Kerouac thought that all of life was a text, and he wanted to express that through his writing. On the Road, with it's off the wall narrative style successfully does this. Using Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarity) as his guide, or narrator, Kerouc (Sal Paradise) was able to put human thoughts and spoken words on paper, creating a mosaic of human existence called On the Road. the book is about traveling on many levels. The physical journey of these two men across a continent, the spiritual journey we all must take throughout our lives, and the day to day wanderings and travels of our thoughts. On the Road is a great work of American Literature.
Book Review: A Wonderful Time Capsule Adventure
Summary: 5 Stars
On the Road is without question my favorite novel, along with The Losers Club by Richard Perez. On the surface, it gives a wonderfully vivid (and exciting) picture of a very different America, a place where there were no freeways or computers or mobile phones, and railroads were still important, and you could hitch-hike across the country and survive by manual labor, and hear jazz in its purest form. Besides that, it's probably the ultimate adventure novel, and in some way probes the male mind (and dream of freedom) as well as reexamines the much vaunted 'American dream' as something beyond nationalism and corporate capitalism.
The prose is beautiful, full of vivid portrayals of excitement and emotion. Much imitated, this is one of the few books that I not only enjoyed but which has changed the way I think. Give this wonderful, jazzy book a chance!
Book Review: A book that'll change your life
Summary: 5 Stars
"On the Road" may not be the greatest literary achievement of all time, but it certainly is the most powerful. The beats were a group of intellects as much into experiencing life as absorbing it through literature and shared ponderings. "On the Road", like a whirlwind, does not allow the reader to sit idly, witnessing the manic, life affirming adventures of its characters. Kerouac demands the reader find a way to do it himself--revaluating all that is routine and prosaic in life and doing something about it while gawd there's still time. One cannot read any page of this book without desiring to leave the house and celebrate the great joys life offers for each of us, not too far down the road.