![]() ![]() ![]() There was a rhythm to the words, it was luscious, I could hear it being read aloud in my head. He makes friends with self-destructing people like Dean Moriarty, who get him involved in weird schemes that never really work out, but still it works out, if you know what I mean. There's not really a plot - Kerouac supposedly wrote it in three weeks on a long roll of paper, stoned out of his mind - only a bunch of amazing things, one thing happening after another. Hipsters, sad-faced hobos, con-men, muggers, scumbags and angels. On the Road is a semi-autobiographical novel about Jack Kerouac, a druggy, hard-drinking writer who goes hitchhiking around America, working crummy jobs, howling through the streets at night, meeting people and parting ways. ![]() “I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. ![]()
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