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Reading this was an experience. Parts of it had me fascinated, while parts of it were a slog to get through. I'm not sure if I'm interesting in reading more of Kerouac or not.

I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it (some I‘ve had so long I don‘t even remember why!). Feel free to join in!

#ABookADay2024

#ItTakesAllKinds #RoadTrip

Thanks for the tag @The_Penniless_Author
1. It‘s complicated: I learned to drive a stick on an Allis Chalmers tractor with a double clutch. I would have to practice with a car. 😂
2. The tagged book a cross country road trip and a lot about Dean Moriarty aka IRL Neal Cassadys ability to drive all night , park cars close together in a pay lot backwards & fast! I also thought of the film Thelma & Louise.
Everybody play!

After finishing this novel, I am reminded of the saying, “you are who your friends are.” This book displays the unhealthy relationship between two men who have not progressed in maturity and have decidedly regressed themselves in debauchery, drugs, and alcohol while traveling back and forth through the country with no real aim in life. What seems to me an empty and hollow life that can be learned from as opposed to being engaged in. 4/10.

Holy Shitballs! In the time since I‘ve been on here, I: lost my apartment; moved back to my hometown in Idaho from Boston; finalized a divorce;[we all] passed 2 waves of pandemic; moved to Homer,AK; worked at a rare book store; had all my worldly possessions stollen; got home; saw my mom through cancer; started a podcast; got published in the Boston Globe; became a bartender; went back to AK; made it home; became a librarian; & READ A LOT!

#Movie2BookRecs @klou
Prompt: Quadrophenia

#manicmonday #letterO
📚On The Road -Kerouac
🖋Eugene O‘Neill
📺The Office
📽On The Waterfront
🎤Beth Orton
🎸One Love -Bob Marley

Will be landing in Chicago before flying to Philadelphia (first leg of the trip) as we do a delegation visit to our partner institutions next week: 3 unis in one week: UPenn, UConn, Boston College, then a few days in Jersey/New York before flying off to Indianapolis for a conference presentation, then Seattle to spend Thanksgiving with our daughter, before heading back home. Good that we were picked up by uni car from home to airport. ✈️🛩️

Chapter 1 completed. Time for a joy ride! 🙃

Need to update the books I've finished.

Been slow going though, life is busy.

Got lots of responsibilities at work and trying to stay on top of things.

S'all good though.

How is everyone?
Came across any decent books lately?

#OnThisDay in 1957, Jack Kerouac's On The Road was published. The counterculture tale was written in just three weeks, and still stands as a defining work of the beat generation. Exactly one year later in 1958, Boris Pasternak's Dr Zhivago was first published in the US. That year it was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but Pasternak refused to leave the USSR to accept the award for fear of government reprisals. #HistoryGetsLIT

Perhaps an insight into a specific subculture in America, but to me it was a lifestyle less shocking, less radical, less cool, and less profound than Kerouac obviously thought it was. For a tale full of fast cars, sex, drugs and alcohol it was quite boring and repetitive. 4/10

1️⃣ I only take one because I'm usually busy doing activities and going to restaurants etc. 🏖🎢🍝🍹🍻

2️⃣ Yes, I'll take one paperback.

I'll have my Kindle as a back up, just incase I don't like the paperback I take. 📚

Thanks for the tag @PageShifter 🙋

I tag everyone.

@TheSpineView #Two4Tuesday

1️⃣ I have to go with Snowdrops, they're brittle but resilient and look really nice.

2️⃣ I'm going to go with On The Road by Jack Kerouac. I'll go with this one because the feeling I have in Spring is that of the upcoming Summer and there's always plenty of good times then; as with being "On The Road" with good times and endless possibilities on the horizon.

Thanks for the tag @The_Penniless_Author ?

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

I can mark another classic off my list! I‘m giving it a pick because it should be read at least once, but I didn‘t love it. I liked it but to me it was nothing special and therefore a tad overhyped for me. I listened to the #audiobook and Will Patton is the narrator. He does a great job and is so easy to listen to. 3.5⭐️

#classic

Happy 100th Jack!On the Road was the right book at the right time.The Beat monicker would haunt him.Much is made about how they were out for kicks , booze, drugs while leaving women at home. The guys that lived the middle class life wanted the women left at home too w/ the kids , housework & have that martini & a smile when dad gets home.Later ,he would deny link to hippies. He was unhappy, alcoholic & dead by ‘69.Burroughs &Ginsberg lived long.⬇️

#OnThisDay in 1922, Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac was born. You might know him better as Jack. In Jr High, a friend convinced him to join the Scribbler's Club, and it was there he decided to become a writer. Kerouac, along with friends Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs would come to define the Beat Generation, inspiring both followers and detractors.

So I read “the book that defined a generation”. And yeah, that generation was horrible! Honestly, anyone who thinks millennials are bad really ought to read On the Road. The Beat Generation were apparently a bunch of douchebags, or at least Jack Kerouac and his friends were. They gave no shits about anything but themselves, they stole, and they treated people (especially women) like shit. So yeah, Jack Kerouac was an ass. The writing was good tho

#BookReport 45/21

I haven‘t read any book of my forecast, not one book for the challenges or the buddyreads. Just these 200 pages 🤦🏻‍♀️

I liked this book more than I expected. I had been dreading it for years but I actually had a good time on the road with Sal and his crazy friends! The book is a tribute to America. The country, the scenery and the people. A bit cliché at times but still enjoyable. #1001books

#QuotsyOct21 Day 9: #Sneak

. It was the racism and sexism so potent in every page, an appalling prejudice even for the time it was written. The idea of the book sounds so appealing. But that‘s until you find out the road trips are just a means to get drugs, booze, and sex despite them having wives back at home. What was even more disgusting was how the character Dean would ogle and try to get with girls as young as 13.
The only characters I had sympathy for were the women.

#sundayfunday @ozma.of.oz

1. Tagged, but could also have picked Travels With Charley or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
2. Bertie Wooster!
3. I assume space means "outer space", since every road trip is a trip through space ? Either way, I'm choosing time. I'd like to drive into the future and see how humanity's story ends

Overall, this book was surprisingly more enjoyable than I expected, combining tones of a new American age, restlessness, friendship, & rejection of traditional domesticity in a stream of consciousness. I‘m still mulling over certain quotes and trying to piece together what I think the main theme is (maybe meaninglessness?) and whether Kerouac actually accomplished anything profound or if he just stumbled upon something that resonated with readers.

A little random picture of me and my other half, who's also a bookworm! 😍

I'm trying to smile, but the sun was in my eyes and I look like I'm in agony! 😂

#selfie
#introduceyourself

Roadtrip! I'd love to go wander around this super hip alley.

So a little more than a year and a half ago, my ex and I split. Then things really started to happen...

The first book for adults I ever read. My dad saw a copy at a yard sale for 25 cents and bought it for me on a whim. I know the popular take is to sour on Kerouac as you age and the flaws in his craft become more apparent, but I don't care. I will always love this book, not just out of nostalgia but because it's a celebration of all that's legitimately good about America- its youth, energy, natural beauty, music, art, etc.

#QuotsySept20 Day 26: #Swirl

I lived in San Francisco 5 yrs,5 more north of the city .Honestly, I don‘t feel fully alive anywhere else.
1.lots of authors ,David Byrne, Mark Ruffalo he was fun to talk to , saw him leaving the theater after watching him perform.Alan Doyle from Great Big Sea !
2.I‘m thankful for Litsy ,I hope we can get a handle on this pandemic.I know people are suffering w/ so much fallout from it .Heartbreaking .#thankfulThursday
Thx 4 tag @Ruthiella

These are the #3Books I've re-read the most! 📚

I've re-read most of the Stephen King books I've read but I've read The Stand (my favourite book) four times so I went with this one. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

On the Road by Jack Kerouac is a favourite too and I've read that several times, it's beautifully written and filled with mesmerising quotes. 💫

The Hobbit is my go to comfort read! 🤷‍♂️

@OriginalCyn620 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#tarottakeover today is the Death card! ☠

Which represents endings, change, transformations and transition.

First book that came to mind was On the Road by Jack Kerouac because the main character Sal goes through an ending in his life, change and goes through a transformation. 💫

@Meaw_catlady @ErinSueMreads 📚

10

Read this because my boyfriend loves it so much. It did not disappoint.

After buying it in the store, I threw it away later when I went psychotic. I like the style, because indeed it reminds one of Jazz-music in the way he just rambles on; but how does he do it? When I compare myself with Kerouac, I have to see the fact that he was good at sports as the most significant difference: for him, writing was just exercise; for me, it is a test. He didn't care about his thinking; I am obsessed with mine.

“Great beautiful clouds floated overhead, valley clouds that made you feel the vastness of old tumbledown holy America from mouth to mouth and tip to tip.”
I used this vivid quote on a scrapbook page I made about a hike we did 10 years ago. I love how Kerouac used imagery.
#RoadTrip #BoundTogetherJune
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@OriginalCyn620

Possibly the most well-known book about a #RoadTrip than Kerouac‘s story of life in the Beat Generation? Thoroughly obnoxious characters but compelling none the less.

#BoundTogetherJune
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@OriginalCyn620

#BoundTogetherJune #RoadTrip
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

#QuotsyJun20 #road

@TK-421

"You cannot teach an old master a new tune."

#7Tage7Buecher
#7days7books
Day 7 a book a day that influenced or changed your life

“...Ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes ‘Awww!‘”

Kerouac and his imagery!! Gives me the chills.

What about you? Have you read On the Road?? #nfnov #nonfictionnovember

#WIL jack didn‘t like living up to the fame that he gained from writing the “Bible of the Beatniks.

When I pulled On the Road out of my TBR to read for #1001Books, I didn‘t realize it (right) was the first draft of the novel. I compared some passages to the published version (L), and while I have some issues with both, feel the first draft is more honest. For instance, the sexual relationship between Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg is basically censored in the final version.

Real names were changed to fictional for the published version👇:

I am about halfway through On the Road: The Original Scroll, and starting to realize it‘s a lot different than the version published in 1957. I‘ve never read the latter, but just did some comparisons, as above. The scroll version (typed on one long piece of blank newsprint) has no paragraph or chapter breaks and was the very first draft. Pictured: intro lines from both versions. top is the published version. Bottom: the scroll aka first draft.

Sal Paradise seems like a bit of a #Partyman when he goes off on his road trips with Dean Moriarty.

#SoaringScores @Cinfhen @CrowCAH

Starting this one, and now I‘m thinking of Ducks, Newburyport (of which I still need to get, but we all know about “the fact that...” and the stream of consciousness within). 😂

#1001Books