This was January’s book and I thought it was fantastic. Again a complete contrast from the last book I read, The Great Gatsby, so it was a little hard to get started. Once I made it through the first fifty or sixty pages the book really took off for me.
The situations created through-out are incredibly complex and impossibly funny. This book had me laughing out loud several times. I think this book has definitely affected me in some way. Working for a large company as I do, I see some parallels between work and the book for sure, and if anything made some of these things a little less serious and a little more humorous.
I would recommend this book to most anyone and think it is more or less a must read.
I finished this book just as the year ended. Pretty drastic change in style from the last book I read, which was The Dharma Bums. I really don’t know that much about the 1920′s in America and so this was pretty cool to get a glimpse of what people were doing then. I think this is another one most everyone has read already at some point, probably out of necessity for some class in school, but I hadn’t and it shows up on just about everyone’s must read list.
by admin on September 13th, 2009 /
Category: books
I recently finished this book and was very impressed. At first it was very difficult to read through but eventually it caught on and I couldn’t put it down. I love the way the author just rolls everything together and sometimes a sentence is nonsense but somehow it works.
This book really did make me want to dust of the backpack and head out for some adventure. I think for my sons generation this is a must read simply because of the way it makes the reader devalue all the material shit we all stockpile in our lives and really spend some time thinking about what we all are born with, ourselves. I’m pretty sure I will be coming back around to Kerouac again.
