Jack Kerouac Questions & Answers

Any books that have had a great impact on your life, changed your way of thinking? Or any that have touched you're soul, or you thought were beautiful? Any that made you cry like you've never cried before, or laughed so hard it made you cry? Any books at all that you thought were amazing in general? Please let me know, I'll do my best to read all recommendations. If it helps, I just read Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and On the Road by Jack Kerouac and thought they were amazing :) Thanks everyone! Oh yeah, and I did read the Twilight series and I did enjoy them, but please don't recommend those to me because that seemed to be half of the answers last time :P

not the audiobook, just the book boxed set

As I read Kerouac, and he talks about all of the great Jazz musicians, I often wonder, if he was still on the road today, what kind of music would he listen to? back in the later 40's and mid 50's when kerouac wrote, there was not much to listen to besides jazz, so what 90's and above bands do you think he would like?

I love this novel but I'm kinda stuch for the some quote's meaning. if you have any your favorite quote please tell me. and I'd like to know why do you like?

I can't remember this song title and it's driving me nuts! Can someone help me out? Those lyrics are all I remember though... Also, it's from what I call a darker band. They don't generally sing about happy stuff lol.

and what Kerouac novels focus on things that were happening in the fifties?

also, is it a boring book?

This is the list of choices my teacher gave us. We have to pick four books to read throughout the year. Any opinions on book I defianatley should or should not read? By the way, I'm a freshmen in honors english and I hate reading.. if that matters. Thanks! Bradbury, Ray Something Wicked This Way Comes Steinbeck, John East of Eden Chevalier, Tracy. Girl With a Pearl Earring. Alvarez, Julia. In the Time of Butterflies. Kingsolver, Barbara. The Bean Trees. Kingsolver, Barbara. The Posionwood Bible Hosseini, Khalad A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khalad Kite Runner Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club Zinn, Howard A People’s History of the United States Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49 Nabokov, Vladimir Marquez, Gabriel Garcia One Hundred Years of Solitude Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment Kerouac, Jack On the Road Dostoevsky Brothers Karamozov Wharton, Edith Age of Innocence Tolsky Anna Karina Paton Cry the Beloved Country Stoker, Bram Dracula Atwood, M The Handsmaid Tale Morrison, Toni Beloved Plath The Bell Jar Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo Salinger Franny and Zooey Alverez How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls Atlas Shrugged Rand Bastard Out of Carolina Allison Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Adams The Sun Also Rises Hemingway Dubliners Joyce The Breakfast of Champions Vonnegut The Heart is a Lonely Hunter McCullers Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart Agee, James A Death in the Family Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain Bellow, Saul The Adventures of Augie March Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights Camus, Albert The Stranger Cather, Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop Chopin, Kate The Awakening Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage Dante Inferno de Cervantes, Miguel Don Quixote Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers Eliot, George The Mill on the Floss Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying Fielding, Henry Tom Jones Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary Ford, Ford Madox The Good Soldier Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Faust Hardy, Thomas Tess of the d'Urbervilles Heller, Joseph Catch 22 Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God Huxley, Aldous Brave New World Ibsen, Henrik A Doll's House James, Henry The Portrait of a Lady James, Henry The Turn of the Screw Joyce, James A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Kingston, Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior Lewis, Sinclair Babbitt Mann, Thomas The Magic Mountain Heinlein, Robert Stranger in a Strange Land. O'Connor, Flannery A Good Man is Hard to Find O'Neill, Eugene Long Day's Journey into Night Orwell, George Animal Farm Pasternak, Boris Doctor Zhivago Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar Proust, Marcel Swann's Way Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49 Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front Rostand, Edmond Cyrano de Bergerac Roth, Henry Call It Sleep Kuralt, Charles Charles Kuralt's America. Shelley, Mary Frankenstein Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony Solzhenitsyn, Alexander One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom's Cabin Swift, Jonathan Gulliver's Travel Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club Thackeray, William Vanity Fair Thoreau, Henry David Walden Alex Kotlowitz There Are No Children Here Turgenev, Ivan Fathers and Sons Yusunari Kawabata Thousand Cranes Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five Walker, Alice The Color Purple Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth Welty, Eudora Collected Stories Whitman, Walt Leaves of Grass Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Freakonomics Woolf, Virginia To the Lighthouse Cather, Willa My Antonia Shepard, Alan Moon Shot: The Inside Story Potok, Chaim The Chosen Delany, Sarah and Elizabeth Having Our Say

I have so many quotes I like, and have narrowed it down to these. Would any of these look absolutely stupid as a tattoo?? Are any better than the others for placing on the back/shoulders? I'm having trouble picking just one, it was hard enough narrowing down to these! They all mean something to me, so I dont need the answers saying that I should pick what means the most cause they all do, I would just like opinions. Thanks! "My witness is the empty sky" (jack kerouac) "When the love of power becomes the power of love, the world will know peace" (jimi hendrix) "To thine own self be true" (shakespeare) "Afoot and light-hearted, I take to the open road" (walt whitman) "there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you." (buk) "the weight of the world is love" (allen ginsberg)

This is the list of choices my teacher gave us. We have to pick four books to read throughout the year. Any opinions on book I defianatley should or should not read? By the way, I'm a freshmen in honors english and I hate reading.. if that matters. Thanks! Bradbury, Ray Something Wicked This Way Comes Steinbeck, John East of Eden Chevalier, Tracy. Girl With a Pearl Earring. Alvarez, Julia. In the Time of Butterflies. Kingsolver, Barbara. The Bean Trees. Kingsolver, Barbara. The Posionwood Bible Hosseini, Khalad A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khalad Kite Runner Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club Zinn, Howard A People’s History of the United States Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49 Nabokov, Vladimir Marquez, Gabriel Garcia One Hundred Years of Solitude Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment Kerouac, Jack On the Road Dostoevsky Brothers Karamozov Wharton, Edith Age of Innocence Tolsky Anna Karina Paton Cry the Beloved Country Stoker, Bram Dracula Atwood, M The Handsmaid Tale Morrison, Toni Beloved Plath The Bell Jar Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo Salinger Franny and Zooey Alverez How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls Atlas Shrugged Rand Bastard Out of Carolina Allison Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Adams The Sun Also Rises Hemingway Dubliners Joyce The Breakfast of Champions Vonnegut The Heart is a Lonely Hunter McCullers Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart Agee, James A Death in the Family Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain Bellow, Saul The Adventures of Augie March Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights Camus, Albert The Stranger Cather, Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop Chopin, Kate The Awakening Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage Dante Inferno de Cervantes, Miguel Don Quixote Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers Eliot, George The Mill on the Floss Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying Fielding, Henry Tom Jones Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary Ford, Ford Madox The Good Soldier Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Faust Hardy, Thomas Tess of the d'Urbervilles Heller, Joseph Catch 22 Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God Huxley, Aldous Brave New World Ibsen, Henrik A Doll's House James, Henry The Portrait of a Lady James, Henry The Turn of the Screw Joyce, James A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Kingston, Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior Lewis, Sinclair Babbitt Mann, Thomas The Magic Mountain Heinlein, Robert Stranger in a Strange Land. O'Connor, Flannery A Good Man is Hard to Find O'Neill, Eugene Long Day's Journey into Night Orwell, George Animal Farm Pasternak, Boris Doctor Zhivago Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar Proust, Marcel Swann's Way Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49 Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front Rostand, Edmond Cyrano de Bergerac Roth, Henry Call It Sleep Kuralt, Charles Charles Kuralt's America. Shelley, Mary Frankenstein Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony Solzhenitsyn, Alexander One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom's Cabin Swift, Jonathan Gulliver's Travel Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club Thackeray, William Vanity Fair Thoreau, Henry David Walden Alex Kotlowitz There Are No Children Here Turgenev, Ivan Fathers and Sons Yusunari Kawabata Thousand Cranes Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five Walker, Alice The Color Purple Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth Welty, Eudora Collected Stories Whitman, Walt Leaves of Grass Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Freakonomics Woolf, Virginia To the Lighthouse Cather, Willa My Antonia Shepard, Alan Moon Shot: The Inside Story Potok, Chaim The Chosen Delany, Sarah and Elizabeth Having Our Say

I seems to be some kind of organization that coordinated people traveling throughout the United States match them up with others going along the same route. Was this some kind of private organization or like a semi-government bureau.

I need help with the physical characteristics of Sal, including age, physical characteristics, personality and role in the story. two quotes supporting this would help! Also how the author depicts the personality of the character? especially the relationship with another pivotal character. Two quotes with this too? Explain how the author represents the voice of this character through the use of dialogue. Explain how the character speaks and what exactly this reveals about him. Two quotes?' What are two examples of sensory description used to develop the character into a well-rounded and complex character? What are two examples of figurative language used to develop the character?

I'm doing a project on the book "On the road" and I need some critical thoughts on it by anybody whose read it. Thank you :)

1. Dwight Eisenhower, 2. Jack Kerouac, 3. Jonas Salk, 4. "Little rock nine", 5. Nikita Krushev D. Invented the polio vaccine which ended an epidemic. F. beatnik author who wrote "on the road" H. Students who had to be escorted by the national guard when integrating central high school in Arkansas I. Become the soviet leader when stalin died; demanded an apology from Eisenhower for the U2 incident. T. Republican who won the presidency in 1952 because we "like Ike". He ran on promises of moderate policy.

He of course was a very influential person during the 1950's, but was he THAT influential? Is it too bold to say that he inspired the counterculture?

I know it's in Lowell, Massachusetts but I have no idea what cemetery. Any help?

Also, what was he promoting? Non conformity? What? Thanks. (:

my favorite book is On The Road by Jack Kerouac and the next is the marylin manson long road out of hell i want something en lighting and exciting a story but that doesn't go too much into setting details but mostly a good classic story and an older one would be great i like older literature best

It seems more like fiction to me. It was assigned in my AP US HIstory class, but I think it belongs in AP English or something. I don't know.

what is the meaning of these two quotes: Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America. Dust rose to the stars together with every sad music on earth. It's not my homework, I swear. I just read the book and I have no idea what these quotes mean. I love the way he wrote them I just wish I knew what they meant...

Evening San Fran nights are best spent in the streets stirring up trouble with Happy Jack, are you a fool?—life proved my face to be Spat upon—that’s a yes, friend. Joints joints marijuana kief joints Traffic lights reflecting off madcap loonies and stoned Enthusiasts in their suits and glass towers that rent open the tortured sky With a metallic riiiip sreeech! Open to angels And bare-headed smiling oriental garden loving wine tasting chinamen— Morrison says we must die—what a prophet of Jonestown— In car, watching city hills rolling past my window, Feels like I’m miles high, watching the lights of the city roll upon A canvas of my own mind’s painting—such thoughts surge unchecked Through my innocent mind as Hank forces the wheel of poor Aged ‘54 cadillac to squeal like unhappy lovers who couldn’t Quite get the dime in the coin slot, moan, what a boring love scene, In observing such playing out in my mind—“dear, we’ll try again in the morning”—“But I’m drunk!”—“Well then do something other than grab me, I feel So used”—“But I’m drunk!”—and so on, until Hank finishes his mad Turn to turn the focus back to the conversation at hand, Does Rimbaud compare to the complexities of the queer prose Of Ginsberg, and Kerouac’s capture of the beat american rapture, I’m sitting drunk in the back seat as Hank turns to me—“what say you, Love?”—to which I drink my wine and smile belatedly, I miss blonde haired lovers, Hank perceives such, “Boy, have we gotta get you fucked by a mad woman! You are unhappy, a night with a wild brunette will set you straight, Look at her, standing solemn on the street, what about her? No wine, boy, no wine.” —and so on, until I’m sick and tired of listening to mad rants on the mysteries of Sex and one night stands, I look forward to conversing with Cass On the subject, perhaps drink and sleep, holding tight, Promised I’d be faithful, and damn, just waiting— Watching wine flowing down her dress as she quirks an eyebrow and Asks “yes?” and cracks a smile to see my expression upon her body, And back to backseat car ride, not sure where we are headed, I had never been the one to care, just the one to smile and drink And smoke to loosen up, to which I then open my soul Gushing forth and banging the headseat and bursting out, The world smiles and I laugh, Lucas moans to the pair of fancily adorned Women on the corner, four way stop, luck dealing him a red light, Groaning poetry about his journeys to lakes with lovers and red lips To which the ladies laugh and continue on their way, Suddenly the radio pushes out another tune, “hate your next door neighbor, But don’t forget to say grace”—to which I cry, “Boys, we’re on the Eve of destruction driving in this mess of a tank, Let me out!”—O, and poor happy me, Wine bottle in hand, staggering out on the streets, Searching for queens, finding wives, Who are being happy indeed, I feel as in court, but is Only my mess of a mind, red wine seeping creeping, And I stumble into a corner, a hub of activity Where I observe zen cats passing out on the streets and rocking down hillways Thumbs in pockets an’ eyen’ the passerbys cold and hard, Like mankind’s ***, And to me they stop and share their wares and offer me a ride, Humbly I stumble into a ’92 subaru white and speeding wildly through San Francisco Parkways and beaches to churches and diners-cafeterias at midnight. Humble college boy with cherubic expression and pool eyes with Visions of Cody Hanging out jacket pocket smiles at me over my meal of beefy soup and Hard-tack bread, tastes of garlic and vegetable oil—I’m not one to complain—especially Over the time I rode six hours straight by Amtrak train from Sacramento to Hanford For Thanksgiving holiday next to hard pimp And drawing up knees to chin curled against window temple resting on churning rocking Window watching the countryside melt along melding into towns rusting abandoned Company windows and loading docks, overgrown yards and farmsteads—needless to say The boy is a knowledgeable loon talking and in constant motion of combing Hair back to smile and blink rapidly—muscle spasm?—and talks to me About novels and classical tone clarity, beating thrumming his ink-stained Fingertips against the grain of the rusting chipped table at which I sit and Slurp soup, words coming up against me rising cascading and running clean Out the other side—I seldom listen to anyone anymore.

I'm like half way through this book. I don't know, there is a natural and really unavoidable expectation for this book to be something of a revelation to the reader. I know if it's because of the hype or what, but I feel a bit non-plussed with it so far. Anybody get me?

What do these quotes mean? 1."I was beginning to get the bug like Dean. He was simply a youth tremendously excited with life, and though he was a con-man, he was only conning because he wanted so much to live and to get involved with people who would otherwise pay no attention to him." 2."They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn..." 3."Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, but Dean just raced in society, eager for bread and love." 4."Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me." 5."And as I sat there listening to that sound of the night which bop has come to represent for all of us, I thought of my friends from one end of the country to the other and how they were really all in the same vast backyard doing something so frantic and rushing-about." 6."I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was — I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds." 7."The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream." 8."They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining." 9."Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk--eal straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious." 10."A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world." And look I realize I should do my own homework but I really don't have enough time to do this because I have a lot of other more work to do. I also realize that I should've thought of this earlier but its a long story. I'm not asking for people to tell me anything else, im asking for your help with this. Thank you.

1. What are the author/character’s reasons for traveling? 2. How does the road trip influence each author’s view of America? 3.Is author’s view of America hopeful or hopeless? Thanks!

I really like jack kerouac but for some reason i just find allen ginsberg out of his mind. I mean he was sent to a lunatic asylum part of his life and one night he was found streaking high on LSD.

I have been to Vegas, never been to san Fransisco, south park says people are smug in Frisco, is that true ,or are there cool people there like Jack Kerouac?

I have a summer reading assignment. I don't know which one to pick being that I'm not that interested in any. Here's the list: - Parable of the sower, by Octavia E. Butler - The natural, by Bernard Malamud - Nickel and Dimed; on (not) getting by in Ameria, by Barbara Ehrenreich - On the road, by Jack Kerouac - Smashed: story of a drunken girlhood, Koren Zaickas - Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom - The stranger, Albert Camus **I like books with suspence and mystery if that helps. Which would be best? Oh yea I like humor too. :)

The lyrics are: Listen to the sex and music in the stereo. Cruisin' in my Cadillac, Ya know I'm gonna losing in Jack Kerouac. Now I'm Cruisin' in my Cadillac, I'm gonna lose me, Jack Kerouac I said I'm Cruisin' in my Cadillac,, I'm gonna lose it, Jack Kerouac Now I'm Cruisin' in my Cadillac,, I'm gonna losing, Jack Kerouac. Lately, I've been dreaming, trying to find my inner healing. All the trouble I've been leaving, don't you wanna know?. Time hang as me, as a minute, I'm alone, for this feeling. I'll find all that cellding, where I'm on the road. Cruisin' in my Cadillac,I'm gonna losing in, Jack Kerouac, So I'm Cruisin' in my Cadillac,, I'm gonna losing in Jack Kerouac. Now, love I've been living, My heart keeps on breathin'. For the world I've been needing, I wish you could go. I dream through the season, Gettin' lost for no reason. Find the place I've been leading, where I'm on the road. I'm trying to love you, baby, love just so make me a little crazy. I don't want you to hate me, living on the road.

I'm reading the dharma bums by Jack Kerouac and for the most part i understand it except for when him and his poet friends start talking it just makes no sense what they say to me.Maybe it's the language of poetry are the times.

movies i like: almost famous, into the wild, shawshank redemption, scarface, fight club i really like hitchhiking stories jack kerouac stuff make sure its on itunes

Do you have to be 21 or over to get into Vesuvion, that famous hangout of jack kerouac in San Francisco? Just curious.

''What is your horse called?'' ''Does your job require a profound understanding of Freud?'' ''I'm studying sociology, philosophy, art and music technology?'' ''Do play any instruments?'' ''Are you familiar with the works of Jack Kerouac?'' ''Thank you for buying me a drink!''

Bower blues The story of man Makes me sick Inside, outside,  I don't know why Something so conditional And all talk Should hurt me so. I am hurt I am scared I want to live I want to die I don't know Where to turn In the Void And when To cut Out For no Church told me No Guru holds me No advice Just stone Of New York And on the cafeteria We hear The saxophone O dead Ruby Died of Shot In Thirty Two,  Sounding like old times And de bombed Empty decapitated Murder by the clock. And I see Shadows Dancing into Doom In love, holding TIght the lovely asses Of the little girls In love with sex Showing themselves In white undergarments At elevated windows Hoping for the Worst. I can't take it Anymore If I can't hold My little behind To me in my room Then it's goodbye Sangsara For me Besides Girls aren't as good As they look And Samadhi Is better Than you think When it starts in Hitting your head In with Buzz Of glittergold Heaven's Angels Wailing Saying We've been waiting for you Since Morning, Jack Why were you so long Dallying in the sooty room?  This transcendental Brilliance Is the better part (of Nothingness I sing)  Okay. Quit. Mad. Stop.     

I'm leaving my current job in about a year, and I've always harboured literary ambitions that I have never had time to fulfill - I write a lot in my job but its not creative writing and it exhausts that my part of my brain - Anyway, I saw 'The Shining' again last night (the Jack Nicholson vers.) and I was thinking wow - thats the job for me - obviously except for the whole spooky murder type thing. Y'Know a job with lots of isolation and free time that lets a writer concentrate and work on a project while keeping up with the bills - like a hotel winter-watch person... or like when Jack Kerouac worked one of the mountain supply posts for six months on his own.... any ideas?? I live in UK but could travel. Ty. a.

for a 14 year old girl? Angela’s Ashes by McCourt, Frank Bean Trees, The by Kingsolver, Barbara Bel Canto by Patchett, Ann Bodega Dreams by Quinonez, Ernesto Body and Soul by Conroy, Frank Brighton Beach Memoirs by Simon, Neil Cold Mountain by Frazier, Charles The Color Purple by Walker, Alice Dandelion Wine by Bradbury, Ray Death in the Family by Agee, James Dreaming in Cuban by Garcia, Christina Dust Tracks On a Road by Hurston, Zora Neale Education of Hyman Kaplan by Rosten, Leo For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide by Shange, Ntozake Franny and Zooey by Salinger, J.D. Giles Goat Boy by Barth, John Girl with a Pearl Earring by Chevalier, Tracey Go Tell It On the Mountain by Baldwin, James Green Mansions by Hudson, W.H. Handmaid’s Tale by Atwood, Margaret Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The by McCullers, Carson House of the Seven Gables, The by Hawthorne, Nathaniel How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Alvarez, Julia Into the Wild by Krakauer, Jon Line of the Sun, The by Ortiz Cofer, Judith Lovely Bones, The by Sebold, Alice Manchild in the Promised Land by Brown, Claude Man in the Moon Marigolds by Zindel, Paul Man With His Heart In the Highlands by Saroyan, William Middle Passage by Johnson, Charles On the Road by Kerouac, Jack Power of Myth by Campbell, Joseph Raisin in the Sun by Hansberry, Lorraine Razor’s Edge, The by Maugham, Somerset She’s Come Undone by Lamb, Wally Skin: Selected Stories by Dahl, Roald Skipped Parts, Sorrow Floats by Sandlin, Tim Stories of John Cheever by Cheever, John Sula by Morrison, Toni Summerland by Chabon, Michael Thirteen Stories by Welty, Eudora Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark Walk in the Woods, A by Bryson, Bill Winesburg, Ohio by Anderson, Sherwood World According To Garp, The by Irving, John Yellow Raft in Water, A by Dorris, Michael Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Pirsig, Robert name a couple around 5 or so thanks a lott!

when i read the book i was under the impression it was true life events between Jack Kerouac and neal cassidy. Than i here some of it is believed to be based off true life events. Im very confused. Also when I read it, it always referred to neal as neal but than i hear people call him dean moriaty and it never once mentioned his name when i was reading. Also Kaerouac never refered to himself as sal paridise. Take in mind i read the original scroll, so maybe thts it. Also there making a movie about it just wondering when its due thanks.

I was in a room with these guys that looked somewhat from the 40's 50's (think jack kerouac). They told me to put this ribbon on my finger and read a passage from a book. I did this and when i looked up from reading i saw an apparition of the devil.

i have heard of 'On The Road', but haven't actually read it... can someone tell me if its a good book please? please don't spoil anything, do not tell me the story.. but is it good because i'm thinking of buying it.. ty

I am trying to think of a good question that compares or even contrasts 'Catcher In The Rye' by J. D. Salinger and 'On The Road' by Jack Kerouac. The obvious theme to compare would be something like journeys. Can any one else think of a good question or an interesting theme to compare between the two novels.

i got a reading list from my english teacher for the summer, and i have time for only 1-3 books. it would be nice to read all of them...but i dont have the time for it. so im trying to choose a few, but i dont know what to do.If you have read any of these books and could recommend any good ones, that would be great! The Gift by Lewis Hyde Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde Metamorphoses by Ovid The Republic by Plato Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison The Awakening by kate Chopin Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Authobiography of Benjamin Franklin Walden by Henry David Thoreau Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare Long Day's Jounrey into Night by Eugene O'Neill Matin Eden by Jack London On the Road by Jack Kerouac The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway Runaway by Alice Munro A Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Straight Man by Richard Russo Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami Thanks in advance!

First reply gets best answer(10 Points). I could use the codes to try to win free gas for my cross-country roadtrip. Want to relive Jack Kerouac's On The Road. Any and all codes will help support this man's vision of the American dream. E-mail codes to josssssshua (at) yahoo.com Thanks! The codes are under the caps. Thanks!

I'm a little scared to post this question because some people are absolutely obsessed with it! I'm sorry, but I've rarely been that disinterested in a book in my life. Hate to use the B word, but I found it boring and tedious. I didn't form any attachment to the characters and really didn't care what happened to them on the way. And yes, before you ask, I did finish it until the end! I know I might get some responses about how I have bad taste in literature and probably only read drivel like Twilight etc. - but I've read and loved plenty of the classics, and I threw down Twilight after the first few pages. Am I alone in this?

For my english a-level i have to write a 3000 word thesis on two books. These two books must be american literature but by two different authors.. i read big sur by jack kerouac and loved it, but am struggling to find another american book with which i can draw parallels and write a compare/contrast kind of essay... does anyone have any advice? thanks very much for any help!!

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard Paddy Clarke: Ha ha ha - Roddy Doyle The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson Crick Crack Monkey - Merle Hodge The Bone People - Keri Hulme On the Road - Jack Kerouac Short Stories - Alice Munro Vernon God Little - D.B.C. Pierre Brokeback Mountain - Annie Proux The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh Orange are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson

hey everyone, im a 21 year old guy. and i am on the edge of a nervous breakdown...not really but im very stressed at this point in my life. when i was 13 i read "On The Road" by Jack Kerouac, it changed my whole life. fast forward nine years I did the whole college thing for 2 years, and found out that it wasnt for me, ive also traveled around the country a bit but its always just for a couple days or as week tops at a time.... . now im 21 entering the workforce and i allready see that im not where i want to be. where im at now isnt even close to where i want to be. i dont ever want to look back when im older and say "what if ?" im torn between keeping my job which i am very lucky to have in this unstable economy, paying off all of my bills and beginning to settle down...which is not what i want to do at all. i have this urge to just say to hell with it all and hit the road, see where it takes me. i live in ohio i just got back from a short trip to california and there is so much more out there than just this small town. im really into music, festivals, books, all that. i consider myself an intellectual person, but i just have this burning desire to say fuck it all and just go....why????? if i do i think i will be commiting financial suicide for the rest of my life. ive got a car loan and plenty of school loans to pay off. i could leave and try to find myself, happiness, peace, possibly god or something close, the meaning of life, and my niche... or i could stay here and be miserable and mad at life just like everyone else... heres my problem though... i dont just want to take short trips, i want to search the globe, i want to LIVE a traveling lifestyle on the road... but money doesnt grow on trees...ive tried researching the subject and seeing how people acomplish this, but i cant seem to find anything i know im not alone...i guess im just a free spirit.. i feel held back and the clock doesnt stop... if i am going to go, i feel i have to do it now, before its too late...any ideas, thoughts, links, words of wisdom...ect would be greatly appreciated. thank you... Xander