FREEON THE ROAD EBOOK Kerouac | 352 pages | 31 Oct 2004 | Penguin Putnam Inc | 9780142437254 | English | New York, NY, United States On the Road by Jack Kerouac In the winter ofthe reckless and joyous Dean Moriarty, fresh out of another stint in jail and newly married, comes to New York City and meets Sal Paradise, a young writer with an intellectual group On the Road friends, among them the poet Carlo Marx. Dean fascinates Sal, and their friendship begins three years of restless journeys back and forth across the country. With a combination of bus rides and adventurous hitchhiking escapades, Sal goes to his much-dreamed-of west to join Dean and more friends in Denver, and then continues west by himself, working as a fieldworker in California for awhile, among other things. The next year, Dean comes east to Sal again, foiling Sal's stable life once more, and they drive west together, with more crazy adventures on the way at Bull Lee's in New Orleans, ending in San Francisco this time. The winter after that, Sal goes to Dean, and they blaze across the country together in friendly fashion, and Dean settles in New York for awhile. In the spring, Sal goes to Denver alone, but Dean soon joins him and they go south all the way to Mexico City this time. Through all of this constant movement, there is an array of colorful characters, shifting landscapes, dramas, and personal development. Dean, a big womanizer, will have three wives and four children in the course of these three years. Perceptive Sal, who at the beginning is weakened and depressed, gains in joy and confidence and finds love at the end. At first Sal is intrigued by Dean because On the Road seems to have the active, impulsive passion that Sal lacks, but they turn out to have a lot more in common. The story is in the details. Election Day is November 3rd! Make On the Road your voice is heard. Summary Summary. Next section Part I, Chapters Test your knowledge Take the Summary Quick Quiz. 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To ask other readers questions about On the Roadplease sign up. Should I read this? Eric Don't touch it! Read Faulkner or better yet On the Road McCarthy for the stream of consciousness literary style. This has zero character development probab …more Don't touch it! This has zero character On the Road probably because he wrote it while tripping on acid. Its a total waste of time less. Initially, I was excited to start reading On the Road but after I read the intro by Ann Charters which was basically a mini-bio of Kerouac, I was severely turned off. Does it get better than the intro? Kris If you are into the beat movement in the USA in the 50's, it's an interesting On the Road. What I took from it was sentences that lasted half a page, a lot o …more If you are into the beat movement in the USA in the 50's, it's an interesting read. What I took from it was sentences that lasted half a page, a lot of jumping back and forth and just general annoyance over On the Road of the characters. The book does however portray very well how the Beat movement during that time impacted the people involved, but the endless rambling on and on and repeating himself, associating with horrible people etc. That being said - I read it because I took a class in Beat art and literature, so I learned a lot from the book too. It has it good parts and its bad, and it also involves a severely narcissistic character which was interesting to read about. I had to go back several pages whenever I picked it up again just to remember the context. See all 25 questions about On the Road…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of On the Road. Sep 29, Jessica rated it did not like it Recommends it for: fourteen-year-old assholes. Shelves: dicklitsbad-reads. This is probably the worst book I have ever finished, and I'm forever indebted to the deeply personality-disordered college professor who assigned it, because if it hadn't been for that class I never would've gotten through, and I gotta tell On the Road, this is the book I love to hate. I'd be lying if I said there aren't parts of this On the Road that're so bad they're good -- good as in morbidly fascinating, in the manner of advanced-stage syphilis slides from seventh-grade health class. Keroac's ode to the sad-eyed Negro is actually an incredible, incredible example of For the record. So we On the Road all see it clearly, and KNOW. Please don't get me wrong! My disproportionately massive loathing for Jack Kerouac has zero to do with his unenlightened racial views. On the Road mean, it was written in the fifties, On the Road anyway, it's great that he was able to articulate these ideas so honestly. No, the real reason I hate this book so much is that it established a deeply retarded model of European-American male coolness that continues to plague our culture today. I could go into a lot more depth on this topic, but it's come to my attention that I've been using my horrible addiction to Bookster to avoid the many obligations and responsiblities of my daily life, to which I should now return. And for that very reason, especially considering its serious and detrimental impact on western civilization, I definitely recommend that you read it, if you have not suffered that grave misfortune already. View all comments. Apr On the Road, Adam rated it did not like it Shelves: fiction. I'm supposed to like On the Roadright? Well, I don't. I hate it and I always have. There are a lot of reasons why I hate it. I find Kerouac's attitude toward the world pathetically limited and paternalistic. In On the Road he actually muses about how much he wishes that he could have been born "a Negro in the antebellum South," living a simple life free from worry, and does so seemingly without any sense of irony. On every page, the book is about how Kerouac a young, white, middle-class, I'm supposed to like On the Roadright? On every page, the book is about how Kerouac On the Road young, white, middle-class, solipsistic alcoholic feels, and nothing more. But that's only one reason I hate this book. The main reason I hate it is because, for me, reading Kerouac's prose is almost physically painful. He was a pretentious, self-important bore who produced some of the most painfully bad and inconsequential prose of the 20th century. Or any century. View all 89 comments. Feb 25, Ian "Marvin" Graye rated it really liked it Shelves: reviews. This novel deserves to lounge around in a five star hotel rather than languish in a lone star saloon. Disclaimer Please forgive my review. It is early morning and I have just woken up with a sore head, an empty bed and a full bladder. Confesssion Let me begin with a confession that dearly wants to become an assertion. I probably read this book before most of you were born. On the Road there! Wouldn't On the Road love to say that! If only I had the courage of my convictions. Instead, I have only convictions, and they are many and varied. However, I am sure that On the Road the end of my this sentence, I shall be released.