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Kerouac's "On The Road" turns 50

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:14 am
by Tora
here is a book I read 3 times and I place this very author among my beloved ones... I'm not good at saying words you know, so just read the links if you're interested... Not that I recommend it to read to everyone - as it's just for those who feel same with me, and I don't want jerks and nerds to be familiar with this book... it's just the way I judge people, I ask him/she whether he/she has read this book or not, and if the answer is affirmative I think of the person as very nice... :lol:

newsweek article
wikipedia article

and a request of mine also - if anybody has the text of the book "Lonesome traveler" on his/her computer don't hesitate to send it to me, please :wink:

Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 9:47 pm
by MissLT
Got his on the road in my favorite netlibrary account. I'll check it out when I have time. Is it a psychological book? :?

Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 2:47 pm
by Tora
LennyeTran wrote:Got his on the road in my favorite netlibrary account. I'll check it out when I have time. Is it a psychological book? :?
not exactly, it´s a book about everything - life, love, friends, and the ROAD! We all know what is a road movie and it is a road book

let me know when you finish it :wink:

Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 8:16 pm
by MissLT
I haven't started it yet. I've been listening to a thousand splendid suns. When I'm done with this book, I'll start reading this one. It sounds interesting based on your description. Let's see, I'll get a weekend break for Thanksgiving next week, so I think I'll check it out.

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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 3:47 pm
by Tora
LennyeTran wrote:I haven't started it yet. I've been listening to a thousand splendid suns. When I'm done with this book, I'll start reading this one. It sounds interesting based on your description. Let's see, I'll get a weekend break for Thanksgiving next week, so I think I'll check it out.
Will I stand a chance asking you whether you liked it or not? 8)

Re: Kerouac's "On The Road" turns 50

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 6:33 pm
by MissLT
:lol: Sorry, sweetheart, I totally forgot about the book. You can ask me about it next week. I'm on my break right now, so I'll start on the book. My hands have been tied with the complete idiot guide to... books, that's why.

Re: Kerouac's "On The Road" turns 50

Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 5:46 pm
by MissLT
Tora, I'm "traveling" with him to San Francisco right now. So, how do you feel after the trip he's taken you all over the States? :wink:

Re: Kerouac's "On The Road" turns 50

Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 6:01 pm
by Tora
LennyeTran wrote:Tora, I'm "traveling" with him to San Francisco right now. So, how do you feel after the trip he's taken you all over the States? :wink:

I'm feeling of packing the rucksack, pouring a pint of coffee into the thermos and getting off on a canoe to San Francisco... It captures... I love Kerouac with all my heart! :oops:

I need to visit SF some day, probably I'll go someday to my relatives in LA and take a greyhound to SF... Can I still take a greyhound?

Re: Kerouac's "On The Road" turns 50

Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 6:17 pm
by MissLT
Oh yeah, you definitely can, but why do you need to take a greyhound when you can just give me a call? It was an unfortunate that I couldn't take Dixie around because of my schedule, but this has changed. I'd love to take you around S.F whenever you come to the Bay. Just give me a call and I'll be on my way.

Re: Kerouac's "On The Road" turns 50

Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 6:18 pm
by MissLT
Did you laugh out loud when a kid said he'd like to become a hobo when he grew up and he did? :lol:

Re: Kerouac's "On The Road" turns 50

Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 6:29 pm
by Tora
LennyeTran wrote:Did you laugh out loud when a kid said he'd like to become a hobo when he grew up and he did? :lol:
it is all hilarious. If you have reached a moment when he travels with some company in a open body of a car of two smiling brothers ( :roll: explanation sucks) and drinking and one of the guys is going to pee and the car is waddling like a duck to and fro on the road and he is all wet... gosh... I'm feeling a bit ashamed of what puts me in stitches :lol:

Re: Kerouac's "On The Road" turns 50

Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 11:06 pm
by MissLT
I'm on Chapter 12 right now, but what you said still doesn't sound familiar. :? Maybe, it's a bit later at the end? And I kinda flinched a bit when I heard the word nigger. It seemed to me he was kinda a hippie at first. :|

Re: Kerouac's "On The Road" turns 50

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 6:12 am
by Tora
No wonder, the language is rather harsh, but it is all said without any racist anger, it was written in the 50s, so probably that time it was nothin in saying nigger...

I've searched for this extract... I'm a true explaining idiot, that was in the chapter 4, a couple of pages after a child telling his mom he wanted to be a hobo :wink:

Re: Kerouac's "On The Road" turns 50

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 5:00 pm
by MissLT
:shock: Really? I must have missed it, then. I only remember the part he wanted to buy booze. And the part he hitchhiked the "wrong" car because the driver was so frigging boring. I thought it was funny since not everyone would appreciate the ride if the driver is not much of an entertainer.

I'll continue to listen to it this weekend, for I have some books I must read before the break is over. Then I'll tell you more what I think of the book, Tora. :wink:

Re: Kerouac's "On The Road" turns 50

Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:05 pm
by Tora
I have no idea if MissLT (nice to meet you, young lady {-: ) have finished it or not, I believe she has. Today I'm walking in the sky as I have registered in Moscow American Center and now I can borrow books (and I'm responsible for the condition and return of borrowed property) and I have this very book at home, so in the nearest future I'm starting it in English! By the way also I have grabbed Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco road - I was looking for it in local book shops - but all in vain - about the years of Great Depression in Georgia (the state, not the country we have so-called invaded :!!: )

Re: Kerouac's "On The Road" turns 50

Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:40 pm
by MissLT
:oops: I'm sorry, Tora. I haven't finished the book yet. I've been swamped with other projects; therefore, I haven't had time to go back to where I left off last time. I think I will start reading it again when I have my Kindle or some similar device, which I will hopefully get on this Thanksgiving sale.

Re: Kerouac's "On The Road" turns 50

Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:50 pm
by MissLT
Tora wrote:By the way also I have grabbed Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco road - I was looking for it in local book shops - but all in vain - about the years of Great Depression in Georgia (the state, not the country we have so-called invaded :!!: )
This one? http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/ ... p?id=h-521

It seems pretty interesting. Tell me how it goes. And by the way, how did you know all those books?

Re: Kerouac's "On The Road" turns 50

Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:29 am
by Tora
MissLT wrote: It seems pretty interesting. Tell me how it goes. And by the way, how did you know all those books?
I hope to tell about it when I finish reading Tobacco road. You know some time ago I read a book by Andre Kaspi, a french historian specializing in the history of the United States, "The united states in the Era of propsperity 1919-1929" - there were quite many references including Caldwell's novel and John Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath. The latter is much easier to be found...