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On the Road
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
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Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road, Kerouac’s classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be “beat” and has inspired generations of writers, musicians, artists, poets, and seekers who cite their discovery of the book as the event that “set them free”. Based on Kerouac’s adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose four cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naïveté and wild abandon, and imbued with Kerouac’s love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up. This edition commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the first publication of the novel in 1957 and will be a must-have for any literature lover.
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- Sarah
- 2018-11-15
Fantastically done!
Yassss! I do not know any other way to describe how I feel about this book except for Yes Yassss! Will Patton brought Jack Kerouac’s book to life in my ears. I felt excited, confused and exhausted. I enjoyed Dean and his crazy distracted ways so much. I found myself laughing out loud by the things Dean would say. Yassss. Rarely have I listened to a book and felt the need to also read it. With Kerouac’s On the Road, I want to fully absorb it. I want to listen to it. I want to read it and I want to watch it. I want to experience it all over again in all formats. Yassss! Jack you had me at “I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that's practically all I ate all the way across the country, I knew it was nutritious and it was delicious, of course.”
And just a little bit from Dean. Yasss!
“Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.'
'Where we going, man?'
'I don't know but we gotta go.”
Ps. All you one star reviewers crack me up.
"I think of Dean Moriarty"
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- Martin S.
- 2022-02-27
Patton is outstanding
Will Parton was a spectacular choice to narrate this tale as his energy was infectious, even of the book itself was a pretentious mountain of garbage. Some of the most detestable characters I’ve ever encountered. This story does not hold up over time.
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- Anonymous User
- 2021-09-15
A voice the words were written in
I tried to read this book, but I could never get into it. But listening to this recording brings the poetry and sadness and beauty of it all to light
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- Andriy
- 2018-06-28
This is what audiobooks are meant to be.
Amazingly directed and acted, this audiobook truly shows you what this medium of spoken audio can do. This is the only book I've found so far where voice acting added flavour to the story.
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- Jeanne Currie
- 2023-09-11
A ‘Classic’ That Should Never Have Been
I actually had to force myself to listen to this book to the end since it was a selection made by a member of my book club.
This ‘literary’ experience was like being a passenger on a long distance bus ride and getting blasted by endless verbal vomit spewing out of the mouth of a drug-addled, self-centered ignorant and disrespectful, racist grifter/loser. One word describes this book: YUK.
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- Robert Belanger
- 2019-02-14
Over Decriptive Bore
I finally gave a chance to this "American Classic". Though the narrator gave it his best Americana accents, the story/writing style is just plain annoying. How many characters need to be named and decribed ("that bum, with the baggy pants, that reminded me of your father..." ? Imagine walking through life and over describing every event <from flipping on a light switch or chewing a granola bar>Also, had anyone kept track of Sal's spending? He starts off with $50 but spends a lot on beer, smokes, bus, apple pie with ice cream, etc. I had to stop listening. Thank you Audible for refunding my credit.
I love visiting the States, traveling the lesser known roads, and was looking forward to an audible adventure. Jack, let me down.
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- Trevor sawatzky
- 2022-08-26
Hard to get through
I hated the characters. Sal is a lazy pretentious loser who spends most of his time bumming money off of people. Dean is a manipulative POS who leaves a wake of suffering for his "kicks." These are our protagonists. Every other character is barely developed; therefore, these two are the two we have to cling on to. Sal barely has an arc (he realizes Dean sucks). Nothing Dean does ever comes back to get him. These characters are basically static, are awful people and we're stuck with them. The plot is also a problem. In between the beginning of the story and the conclusion, the plot just goes through random story beats that do not link up to anything. There is no point to any of it. It just feels like the ravings of an author who just spewed words on to a page and handed it in on the first draft. There isn't a goal. There isn't a point. There isn't much of a story here. Perhaps when it was written it was a cool story with the depictions of sex and drugs. This might be why it rose to the station it holds in literary circle. This being said, I truly do not understand why this novel is so deeply engrained in the cultural zeitgeist.
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- Terry
- 2018-11-10
I didn't like it, the story did not hook me.
I just couldn't connect with any of the characters, The character's swaggering tone annoyed me.
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- John Arthur
- 2023-02-25
Deserves to be forgotten
Narration is great, but I can't understand for the life of me why this is a famous classic... the novel reads as a tedious logbook of the timelessly petty and repetitive problems that petty and shallow ppl create for themselves. Who cares?
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