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On The Road (RSMediaItalia Modern Classics Illustrated Edition)
On The Road (RSMediaItalia Modern Classics Illustrated Edition) | Jack Kerouac
On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across America. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use. The novel is a roman clef, with many key figures in the Beat movement, such as William S. Burroughs (Old Bull Lee) and Allen Ginsberg (Carlo Marx) represented by characters in the book, including Kerouac himself, as the narrator Sal Paradise. The idea for On the Road, Kerouac's second novel, was formed during the late 1940s in a series of notebooks, and then typed out on a continuous reel of paper during three weeks in April 1951. It was first published by Viking Press in 1957. After several film proposals dating from 1957, the book was finally made into a film, On the Road, produced by Francis Ford Coppola and directed by Walter Salles, in 2012. When the book was originally released, The New York Times hailed it as "the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat,' and whose principal avatar he is." In 1998, the Modern Library ranked On the Road 55th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.
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Outofcontroltbr
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This was an interesting read. It‘s a story about having wanderlust in 1940s America. I‘m not usually into these kinds of stories but this book is on a 100 Essential Books scratch off bucket list I received as a gift so I read it and it was pretty good.

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JessieSummer
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Haroon_Ishaq
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Morning with books 😍

Jedi_Bruno How did you feel about On The Road? I read it last year. Definitely have mixed feelings on it. 6y
Haroon_Ishaq @Jedi_Bruno I'm yet to read it, thu I liked the intro and my consider it reading sometime ahead 6y
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Tralfamadorian
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Book #5 of 2019. 📚

Crazeedi My daughters all time favorite book 6y
CoffeeNBooks Great book! Welcome to Litsy! 📚 6y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Welcome to Litsy!! 6y
StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego Hope you're enjoying Litsy so far 📖💙 6y
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Dwayne_Shugert
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Mehso-so

Not sure what to do with this book. Brilliantly written and wonderful storytelling but it seemed empty and hopeless. But at least I have some bragging rights...”why yes, I have read (or rather listened to) On the Road by Jack Kerouac,

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GoneFishing

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

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GoneFishing

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding stars.

Rebesta I love this quote even though I prefer to hang with people a little more sane than the characters in the book. 6y
GoneFishing @rebesta it‘s fun for a while with the mad before, then I start to lose my sanity. 6y
Rebesta @jdtchicago - That‘s the problem with “the mad.” They tend to drag you down into the rabbit hole with them. 😉 Hard lessons learned long ago. 6y
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