On the Road
Ratings276
Average rating3.4
Fast, breathless, always moving...
I never connected with the characters. I understood term. I may have even known some Sals and Deans. But I just couldn't connect with them, as people.
Yet, I enjoyed the writing.
Enjoyed the vividness of the scenes.
Enjoyed discovering a subculture of 7 decades ago.
Even, at times, enjoyed the wild wanderings of minds constantly high of mj, insomnia and youth.
Not bad for a book I picked up by mistake.
I only made it to page 92. This does not translate well to modern thinking - dude is pretty racist and sexist. Also I barely care about anyone in this story. Everyone is a bad person, not least because of the racism and sexism.
I feel a lot of emotions went into this book. It's a kind of wild ride back and forth across the United States following WWII – late 1940s and 50s.