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On The Road, the most famous of Jack Kerouac's works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing, On The Road is thinly fictionalised autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life friends, lov0
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Amazon Review On The Road, the most famous of Jack Kerouac's works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing, On The Road is thinly fictionalised autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life friends, lovers and fellow travellers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac's alter-egos, this cross-country bohemian odyssey not only influenced writing in the years since its 1957 publication but penetrated into the deepest levels of American thought and culture. --Acton Lane
"I had started this years ago and eventually had to put it down to read some mandatory shite instead. Then it just stood on the shelf...
I'll have to get back to it one of these days, from the beginning."
tartan_skirt added this to a list 4 years, 9 months ago
""...I shambled after as I've beeing doing after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, made to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like stars and in the middle you see the blue centrelight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'" p. 11
"But no matter, the road is life." p. 199
"You don't die "
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