On the Road
1955 • 254 pages
Ratings142
Average rating3.3
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Ratings142
Average rating3.3
Described as everything from a "last gasp" of romantic fiction to a founding text of the Beat Generation movement, this story amounts to a nonfiction novel (as critics were later to describe some works). Unpublished writer buddies wander from coast to coast in search of whatever they find, eager for experience. Kerouac's spokesman is Sal Paradise (himself) and real-life friend Neal Casady appears as Dean Moriarty.
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this book is a just a long boring roadtrip.also I could not connect with the characters. it felt like a diary.
Wildly overrated “novel” about a bunch of beatniks travelling around and having “adventures”, mostly involving drugs and sex and being liberated and putting it “to the man”. Pathetically trying to be cool and irreverent but coming off immature, like rebellious teenagers. I don't understand why people rate this book highly. It's not much and what there is is repeated again and again.
I think that stream of consciousness books are not for me.
Ok I got through like a half of the book and I grew tired of those rides and stuffs and debauchery. So literally I skimmed through it and in the end i was like what? Again a ride?
