On the Road, by Jack Kerouac Readers' Reviews:
"'On the Road' is the best book I have ever read. It is the modern man's Bible. This piece of literature is the guide to life. After completing this book, I am living my life like that of Dean Moriarty and my life is better."
- Jamie
"I too played football in college (just as Kerouac did) where I met the most amazing and inspiring people. These people have since spread themselves throughout the States, drawn to whatever light that inspired them for the time. I have been in the search too, I have found myself 'On the Road' to find out what it is all about."
- E.J.
"This book describes the true meaning of freedom. A great read for anyone who is in college or smokes tea."
- Jon
"'On the Road' is a true masterpiece. I loved every moment and it is a must for anyone who ever has wanted to just get up from where he sits and be anywhere but where he is. Kerouac takes you there and shows you the way. The book leaves you with a sense of dissatisfaction as you want it to carry on forever. It is written with real honesty as it shows the glory and the hardship of life on the road."
- Hamza
"'On the Road' introduced to me a view of life of travel and adventure. The book is filled with poetic brilliance and inspiring images of 50s America. To me, it is one of the defining novels of the 20th Century."
- Neil
"I've just found the beat literary, through 'On The Road' and when I read it I could feel the cotton fields, all the smoky jazz bars and, most of all, the highway just crossing in my eyes and I haven't even visited in America (I'm Finnish). Thank You Mr. Kerouac. You showed me the way."
- Jani
"In my eyes, clearly the best book ever written. Kerouac is genius! "
- John
"'On The Road' is not only a description of the ethos of the 'Beat' generation. It is a wild brawl of a story, as applicable now as was then and will, till the final man falls from the earth and makes his great, sad journey to somewhere, nowhere, be an example of how much life holds and drops and scoops back up again. It's like Kerouac's conversations with himself and how these actually extend themselves into the actual living, heaving world. SENSATIONAL!!! Life's in the trimmings, the details, Jack would say. It's every second that passes, rushing or whispering, slurring or staggering. No pretending. Every thing is what it is, don't fool yourself - EVER, don't grab anybody else's coattails and let them drag you on their ride, ride your own current, man, follow it like a rope to the exit of a dark, cold room. Take it and wrestle with it's direction and let it flow. Let every moment be that moment, the next moment is later, now, then - the great giddiness and spins and loops of a half-crazed mind. Only half-crazy, if you can see the other world that lies in your heart and eyes but unseeable and untrackable but definite and unique and readable on faces, sometimes sniffable in the air, ay those who know will know - the poets-and everyone knows. Must be crazy to see these things -the mass of everything in existence hanging on the now, your now, everybody's now. Wild and free (overused) and fruitless, sometimes heartless and always moving, traveling, rolling, going somewhere, gotta do something, even if it's nothing it must be something, anything. So I think they (The Beats) all see this THIS and know it, each intimate in his or her own way with it. Knowing this they simply want to see what can occur, what is possible, what feelings can be gotten, mined from life. And so they wail, wail, wail, rushing for the something, the anything that waits for them in the unseeable future, down the road
- Sam
"I love this book. It is a literary masterpiece, but I don't need to tell anyone that, because they should just read it for themselves. Next book to read will be 'Dharma Bums'. It's gonna be beatific and beautiful."
- Gary Coleman
"When I was studying in Manchester, UK, I discovered the literature of Jack Kerouac. I first read his book 'Desolation Angels' which was a raptured, original copy of the 50's and I simply nurtured from Kerouac's lonely, but hopeful and yearning style of writing. A few months later down in London, I bought 'On the Road' in a luxurious, top-sale copy. This was it. He is me! I felt in every sentence that his spirit will live on in every adolescent man who breaks away from society in search for the meaning of live. I haven't finished both books. I'll try to do it myself. The Beat Generation then and now. The story continues..."
- Jon
"'On the Road' is a book that can change your life. It teaches what freedom is - tolerance and friendship. After reading it, I always try to find the pearl that every travel and every day has inside. And when you find them, you have only to thank that great man who was Kerouac."
- Rossy
"I absolutely loved 'On The Road.' I thought it was the most excellent book I have ever read. Jack Kerouac is now my favorite author. I am now reading the 'Lonesome Traveler'."
- J.S. Bradle |
