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Jack Kerouac

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2025-05-16 3:04am

One of those books that's really fantastic yet quite simplistic. It's just a guy and company traveling across the United States for really no purpose other than to live life to the fullest. Jack Kerouac takes you on emotional rollercoasters here and to make matters more extreme, you feel exactly what he's feeling as he describes it. You experience true joy and true heartbreak in one book- one journey. It's one of those books that's just so absolutely full of life and personality I think you have to read it to some extent. It almost feels hard not to mentally go alongside Jack- uh, Sal on his spiritual voyage. There are really any themes (mainly just cause it's semi-autobiographical) or deep concepts to analyze, but it more than warrants its status as a classic. This book is far from a book, it's a search for meaning.