On the Road by Jack Kerouac Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of On the Road
Book Review: will always appeal to the adolescent male-no matter how old
Summary: 3 Stars
A much over rated book which, despite the rhapsodizing of its fervant accolytes, is destined to remain what it has always been a : a cult classic.Still, I enjoyed it after rereading it for the first time in 30 years. Kerouac and Cassady, Ginsberg et. al. had a certain juvenile, nihilistic, contempt for the dull, mindnumbing routine of modern life that will resonate 100 years from now.
After rereading OTR, I got interested in Cassady and the Beats and read some memoirs about them, one by Cassady's wife. A not very admirable group - pathetic really. Ginsberg told Gore Vidal (read Palimpsest by Vidal) that Kerouac spent his last years drunkenly raging against "Jews and fags". Cassady died nothing more than a strung out butt-of- jokes for Ken kesey's younger and hipper Pranksters. Both Jack and Neal were bi sexual, a fact which Kerouac didn't dare mention despite his anti establishmant pose.
This type of book will always have an audience like the early Jack London books, Melville's pre Moby Dick work and Robert Lewis Stevenson's adventure novels.
But it is not great literature.
If you like Kerouac, why not read the works of a similar but vastly more gifted writer, Frederick Exley. Start with A Fan's Notes.
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Summary: 5 Stars
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