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bonesfor5dollars's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.25
Graphic: Racism, Sexism, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, and Misogyny
Moderate: Homophobia, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Addiction
Minor: Domestic abuse and Sexual content
hypocrisis's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
Selfish and self-destructive characters like Dean Moriarty can only be romanticised as 'angel(s) of terror' and prophets from the safe distance of a reader ...or a protagonist who's in a permanent state of intoxication.
I'm sure it was groundbreaking at the time, but the lifestyle described doesn't appeal to me, even though i do give into 'madness' at times and love 'kicks'. Maybe I'd get it if i had a real connection to american culture and jazz, or if i had a driver's license lol. Maybe I'm too stuck in my middle-class ways to see it, but i didn't get the point of all these roadtrips just to do the same thing with the same people all over again.
Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, and Addiction
Minor: Toxic friendship and Sexual assault
nessafurtado's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Agora, os personagens são, na grande maioria, detestáveis. Demandou muito esforço mental tentar compreender o que Sal via em Dean, uma fé e dedicação totalmente cegas e unilaterais. Os comentários de Dean sobre mulheres, e uma criança eram deploráveis; os comentários relacionados a pessoas pretas ou gays não eram melhores. Não importa o tempo em que isso aconteceu - 1950, 1960 - isso NÃO é desculpa para ser uma pessoa ruim/babaca.
Moderate: Drug abuse, Addiction, Gaslighting, and Alcohol
Minor: Police brutality, Racism, Homophobia, Misogyny, Gun violence, and Racial slurs
touchingartt's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.25
1) All characters, especially Dean, do not seem like genuinely good people. (cheating, racism, r*pe, and at some point even pe*ophi*ia)
2) Plot is basically non-existent
3) You need to have extremely good knowledge about America in the 1940s and 1950s to understand how some things might have worked or are possible; the same goes for knowledge on certain American cities where they travel a few times (i.e. Denver, San Francisco, New York...), so you can understand which parts of those cities were poor, industrial, fancy, etc.
4) Writing was lazy at some point, so it seems like you can never finish reading one page even tho it says basically nothing
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Racial slurs, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Rape, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, and Sexual assault
noahaimelire's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.25
Graphic: Alcohol
Moderate: Homophobia, Addiction, and Sexual content
Minor: Racism and Adult/minor relationship
_quinnsreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content
serving_goffman's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Drug use, Homophobia, Racism, and Sexism
Moderate: Car accident
Minor: Alcohol, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Addiction
noemi_espinar's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Moderate: Alcoholism, Addiction, Drug use, and Misogyny
mothball's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, and Alcoholism
wretchedtheo's review against another edition
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Homophobia, Cursing, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Sexual content
Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Cursing, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Sexual content, and Slavery