On The Road by Jack Kerouac is one of Modern Library’s Top 100 Novels, it is also on The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list and it is ranked forty second on The Greatest Books of All Time site, it was called ‘A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation’, I have read it for the first time about twelve years ago, I think, and taken it for a second time over the past few days, and I have a mixed verdict, influenced by what (the MAGA side of) America has become, other reviews and notes on films are available at https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedbac
On The Road by Jack Kerouac is one of Modern Library’s Top 100 Novels, it is also on The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list and it is ranked forty second on The Greatest Books of All Time site, it was called ‘A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation’, I have read it for the first time about twelve years ago, I think, and taken it for a second time over the past few days, and I have a mixed verdict, influenced by what (the MAGA side of) America has become, other reviews and notes on films are available at https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html 8 out of 10 I could see that On The Road is a good book, if not the ‘inspirational work of lasting importance, a classic novel of freedom & longing’ for me, it does not mean a thing that I am not exhilarated, it just proves to me again the futility of reading these notes, writing them may make some sense, I was explain to a mate from the sauna ...