This is a look at Jack Kerouac's On The Road and it's influence of the people who have read it.
Well it's trying to be.
What this really is is a mix of people talking about life on the road and people waxing poetic about what the novel means to them.. It's all decorated with some sunning images of people and places.
The problem is that none of it comes together. Its a series of great sequences that never tie to together. We know what people like about traveling, but how does it tie into the book? We know how the book influenced people but we never feel the wonder they do. Intellectually we do, but not emotionally. I never felt why this book means something to anyone.
Its not bad, but for a book that has changed the world and influenced generations it is never transcendant.
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