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3.27 AVERAGE
3.27 AVERAGE
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
i read the entire book and retained none of it. worst book i’ve ever read for school and i read song of solomon
I loved the story and how in certain moments the characters were as one with the car they were driving and the people they met. On the other hand I didn't like how the author focuses on describing things that aren't very important, sometimes making the book less interesting.
adventurous
challenging
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Something that was a very easy read for the level of literary excellence contained inside. Viewing the historical cities through the eye of a drifting narrator provided an excellent snapshot of the American experience for many people in the late 40s. Although vivid and alluring, this cultural and picturesque setting only serve as a background for character studies of many disparate figures who are aligned merely by their perseverance to experience life to the fullest. Each of our characters set out to experience new things, to live fast “on the road”, but they each come to very different conclusions. For some the party never ends while others are sucked into marriages, jobs, children, and more. Interestingly, these experiences in life are seen as neither positive or negative by our narrator. Life simply “is” for him, he lives in the moment, and he is happy to follow wherever he is led.
The most interesting portion of the book for me was the relationship between Sal and Dean. Dean is disgusting, egotistical, reckless, rude, and despised by everyone around him - except for sal. Sal is nothing particularly like Dean, but he views him as a brother and a guide. Sal admires Dean as a pure and uncorrupted soul while everyone else views him as a nuisance. In many ways, this book tells the story of Sal and his recking with Dean’s promiscuous, unpredictable, and dangerous lifestyle while still trying to keep close to him and follow in his footsteps.
The most interesting portion of the book for me was the relationship between Sal and Dean. Dean is disgusting, egotistical, reckless, rude, and despised by everyone around him - except for sal. Sal is nothing particularly like Dean, but he views him as a brother and a guide. Sal admires Dean as a pure and uncorrupted soul while everyone else views him as a nuisance. In many ways, this book tells the story of Sal and his recking with Dean’s promiscuous, unpredictable, and dangerous lifestyle while still trying to keep close to him and follow in his footsteps.
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there is literally no plot or at least not before page 87 or so where I stopped. It’s just a bunch of run on sentences and surface level narration that is soooo boring.
I tried to read this because apparently dean moriarty was partially what inspired dean winchester but I simply could not do it I’m sorry to say.
There was one part early on I enjoyed where the MC was hitchhiking and was on the back of a wagon with a bunch of other people and they came and went and sang songs and made friends with each other and that part alone was very nice but since and before this book was so monotonous (not to mention riddled with slurs but that’s neither here nor there).
there is literally no plot or at least not before page 87 or so where I stopped. It’s just a bunch of run on sentences and surface level narration that is soooo boring.
I tried to read this because apparently dean moriarty was partially what inspired dean winchester but I simply could not do it I’m sorry to say.
There was one part early on I enjoyed where the MC was hitchhiking and was on the back of a wagon with a bunch of other people and they came and went and sang songs and made friends with each other and that part alone was very nice but since and before this book was so monotonous (not to mention riddled with slurs but that’s neither here nor there).
“Now you just dig them in front. They have worries, they’re counting the miles, they are thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they’ll get there- and all the time they’ll get there any way, you see. But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won’t be at peace unless they can latch on to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end”
Loved this book and cannot wait to pick up more by Kerouac.
Loved this book and cannot wait to pick up more by Kerouac.
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
emotional
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
On the Road revived that sense in me to want to take a road trip up to San Francisco again. The last time I went with my partner I gained a heightened view in live. Many of the places mentioned including locally were mentioned in the book like Indio famous at the time of writing because of it being the mid point between LA and Yuma.
I think that the one the overarching themes of the book is that of finding your road in life. Finding yourself through the road which can be a metaphor for life itself. There are many troubles figures in the book that i can relate to not in all but in some ways nonetheless. Maybe I tried harder to find myself in the book seeing that I share the same name with the protagonist.
Although Jack Kerouac would later reject his influence in the counterculture of the 60s one could still see why such a book could be instrumental.
I think that the one the overarching themes of the book is that of finding your road in life. Finding yourself through the road which can be a metaphor for life itself. There are many troubles figures in the book that i can relate to not in all but in some ways nonetheless. Maybe I tried harder to find myself in the book seeing that I share the same name with the protagonist.
Although Jack Kerouac would later reject his influence in the counterculture of the 60s one could still see why such a book could be instrumental.