coolguyclyde 's review for:

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

1.0

adventurous fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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This book was actually painful to get through,, 😭 it was so incredibly boring and nothing of substance happened the entire book other than maybe one or two impactful scenes. The characters were absolutely insufferable, all the women might as well have been bags of flour with their lack of character/malleability, everyone was so pretentious, stupid, self centered, and ignorant that it was frustrating having to listen to their backwards way of thinking. All of the female characters in the book were so absolutely in love with Dean or Sal that it never mattered that they cheated on them, beat them, or abandoned them, the ladies just forgave them anyway because the men are so awesome and cool!! 🤮
I can see why this book might've had the impact it had when it came out, but it definitely aged poorly. There are other books that do what On the Road is trying to do much much better without all the pedophilic and racist comments. I saw a Truman Capote quote that said "Jack Kerouac doesn't write, he just types," which is the truest thing that dude's ever said. Anyway I wouldn't read this crap, it was horrendous