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ivano456 's review for:
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
At first Kerouac's frenetic prose makes this a hard read but once you get used to it you can start enjoying and feeling the frenetic lifestyle of living on the road.
While there's not a lot of "plot", I guess that's also the way life works, we just go about from one place to another, not knowing where the road will take us, but we must learn to enjoy all of its randomness and whatever the road will bring.
Finally, while I was expecting Sal (the protagonist) to reflect on what his journeys through America taught him about life, there was no such thing ever on the book, but I guess Kerouac leaves that to us the readers to imagine. Should we live life on the road, always looking for kicks, or should we ever settle down and stop? What was the point of all of Sal and Dean's journeys? What's the point of our journey?
Overall a great read and it was very interesting learning about the cultural context of the "beat" generation and culture.
While there's not a lot of "plot", I guess that's also the way life works, we just go about from one place to another, not knowing where the road will take us, but we must learn to enjoy all of its randomness and whatever the road will bring.
Finally, while I was expecting Sal (the protagonist) to reflect on what his journeys through America taught him about life, there was no such thing ever on the book, but I guess Kerouac leaves that to us the readers to imagine. Should we live life on the road, always looking for kicks, or should we ever settle down and stop? What was the point of all of Sal and Dean's journeys? What's the point of our journey?
Overall a great read and it was very interesting learning about the cultural context of the "beat" generation and culture.