Hit the Road, Jack - Mimi Thebo

Advantages: An expansive lyrical visionary dreamland
Disadvantages: Makes you wanna road trip sooo bad.

...I always knew I needed to escape the squalor and opression of life. I just never knew how. Until I read on the road by Jack Keruoac( who was quite hot in a James Dean kinda way but apparently a terrible sexist). It challenged my perspective, and ruined my cosy little life plan. On the road is so much more than a roadtrippin' travelogue. It's all the joy, sadness, limitation, freedom, love , hate, craziness ,heat and sweat of life.Our narrator Sal Paradise is a writer of the infamous beat generation. We're supposed to follow him, but everyone knows Sal's crazy monkeyboy buddy Dean Moriarty (Neal Cassidy in disguise) is where the real action lies. The book hurtles through smokey nightclubs, blue starry city nights across America in hot pursuit of...well, Dean mostly, and all the bug eyed wide open spaces and sleazy city scapes... Read review

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Advantages: Insight into a generation
Disadvantages: Some of the lingo might leave you wondering

...Sometimes you come across a book that changes your life…and sometimes you put off reading one, in case it might. For me the latter has always been Kerouac's "On The Road". It's been on my reading list since before the list ever got long enough to write down. I've always figured my feet are itchy enough without picking up the original 'life-changing-throw-it-all-up-and-hit-the-road-Jack' novel. But it wouldn't go away. It's always been there in the background, whispering. So in a year when big trips failed to materialise and I'm exploring the backwaters and tourist-traps of my own land, I finally figured it was time. Two things that hit me very early on. Firstly, am I the only person in the world who doesn't (or didn't) understand what "the beat generation" really means? I have this image of smokey bars, and black... Read review

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Advantages: Plenty of great plots
Disadvantages: None

...Another great and exciting crime novel from Lee Child featuring Jack Reacher, ex-military cop. ************************************************************************ Jack is in Texas and it is damn hot. Following a bar room brawl, Jack decides it is time to move on again. Especially now he knows the guy he hit is a cop. He hits the road and the heat is rising. After walking along the road for a few minutes, Jack`s luck is in. He gets a ride. And from a woman too. His ride is called Carmen Greer and Jack is just what she was looking for. Carmen has a problem. Her husband, Sloop. He is in jail for not paying his taxes and Carmen and her daughter Ellie are living with Sloop`s mother and brother on a ranch in Echo County, Texas. Neither Sloop`s mother or brother have any time for Carmen or Ellie. Carmen is Mexican... Read review

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