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Book Review of On the Road

On the Road
On the Road
Author: Jack Kerouac
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Supposedly one of the most important American novels, but not to me. Kerouac writes like he wishes he were Hemingway and saying all the same things Eliot did in the Wasteland. Traveling around America, from New York, to Denver, to L.A. and San Fran. Everywhere they went it was still America. Only the names have changed. Until they get to Mexico.
There are some really good lines, but it's kind of a boring book to me.