Review: On the Road (Duluoz Legend)
User Review - Kimberly Walton Mayden - GoodreadsI was prompted to read this book prior to seeing the movie. The author is an exceptional writer, his use of figurative language is profound and he has an excellent vocabulary. However, the writing was ... Read full review
Review: On the Road (Duluoz Legend)
User Review - Molly - GoodreadsIt's considered a modern classic, one of those books every reader should read, so I felt like I should read it. I love the idea of tossing aside responsibilities and driving back and forth across the ... Read full review
Review: On the Road (Duluoz Legend)
User Review - Lauren - Goodreads(In my opinion) the first and most important thing to understand before starting this novel is the writing style; Kerouac typed up the original manuscript in a wild rush over a period of three weeks ... Read full review
Review: On the Road (Duluoz Legend)
User Review - T. - GoodreadsI made it through a third of this book before giving up. I would have given up earlier but after reading about the novel and its many accolades I decided to give it another chance. But I neither found ... Read full review
Review: On the Road (Duluoz Legend)
User Review - Jaime - GoodreadsThis is a book that took me quite a while to read. The first three parts can be summarized in "We traveled back and forth from NY to San Francisco. Heard some music. Drank a lot. Heard Dean's ... Read full review
Review: On the Road (Duluoz Legend)
User Review - Jóhanna Ŭr - GoodreadsThis book was difficult to finish. I only finished it this morning and man, was I happy to get it off my back. On the road is the story of Sal Paradise and his madman friend Dean Moriarty and their ... Read full review
Review: On the Road (Duluoz Legend)
User Review - David Ellis - GoodreadsIncredibly dull and devoid of stakes or building tension. He tends to describe everything with the same short sentences and relatively flat affect, and it all starts to feel the same. I honestly don't know what so many see in it. Read full review
Review: On the Road (Duluoz Legend)
User Review - Heather - GoodreadsI think to enjoy this book you really can't be a middle aged house wife, with two kids and tons of responsibility. Also, this rubbed up against my distaste for hippies. For self-absorbed tales of ... Read full review
Review: On the Road (Duluoz Legend)
User Review - Nicole Thompson - GoodreadsThis might reflect on me poorly to intellectuals, but Kerouac's style doesn't do a lot for me. His characters and stories should be brilliant, but his execution loses my interest. Read full review
Review: On the Road (Duluoz Legend)
User Review - Mark Payne - GoodreadsI'm saying I read this, but I read about three quarters of it. I had to put it down, it really bugged me. The style, the characters, they just got to me and it stressed me out. Plus, it's not ... Read full review
