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Sulla strada by Jack Kerouac

29 reviews

kj_suguitan's review against another edition

0.5

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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cthulhu_calamari's review against another edition

It's basically a dubiously "real-life" account of people all of whom you could generally sum up as "an undiagnosed ___" commiting crimes and treating other people's lives as theme parks, with no consequences other than a "man, can you believe it!" story.

I can imagine that boomers "dig it," but it's otherwise of no discernable cultural value. The parts that aren't completely pointless ramblings tend to be about some asshole watching terrible things happen to people, with the narrato 's commentary consisting of "Man, he/she was *wild*, can you dig!"

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annalise_4202's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

yes this book does have some problematic elements. despite that, kerouac’s writing style is extremely interesting and makes it a good read.

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hjb_128's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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vaguelyredhead's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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tobiassoar's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

There are moments of brilliance where I truly understand how novel this book was in its time.

However, the majority of the time I was either bored or repulsed by the racist and paedophilic passing comments by the narrator.

I understand it’s a product of its time and should be treated as such, but it was truly a slog to get through at times.

And if he loved Dean so much, they should have just kissed.

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jordynjohnson's review against another edition

I know that this was supposed to be influential for the time or whatever but life is too short for me to suffer through this. Also, the fixation on high school girls gave me the ick. DNF at 15%

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nachtschreckenirgendwas's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Read this during a strange period of my life and found real comfort in the idea of someone leaving everything and all common sense behind.
Keroaucs romantic descriptions of roadside beauty and spirituality really struck me in a special way. Sal's fascination of and love-hate-relationship with Dean may be one of the best depictions of friendship between men ever depicted.
Beware though, this is an old book with bewildering moral ethics.

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