On The Road CD by Jack Kerouac
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Book Reviews of On The Road CD
Book Review: On the Road
Summary: 4 Stars
I am a huge fan of both Keroauc and the audio book in general. I am glad this was unabridged. I have a copy of an abridged version that I downloaded a while ago, which cut out some of the flavor of the novel, I thought. However, I didnt care much for Dillons reading of it. It wasnt bad, just not nearly as good and natural sounding as the guy that read the abridged version. But, for the relatively low price of this ten disc set, and the pure enjoyment of the story, this is still a good deal.Book Review: What a book, ehhh on the reading
Summary: 3 Stars
On the Road is an amazing, beautiful, tragic, disturbing, uplifting, inspiring, discouraging book. If you're looking at these reviews to decide whether you want to read or listen to it for the first time, stop deliberating. It truly is one of the great novels of the 2nd half of the 20th century.
On Matt Dillon's reading, let's be honest, he simply slugs his way through big portions of this book. While listening to it I thought to myself numerous times that he wasn't even paying attention to what he was reading, but was just reading the words on the page. He does much better when there's dialog to be read. I liked his Dean very much and thought his William S. Burroughs (Bull Lee) was spot on. So what you get is a somewhat uneven reading of a truly classic book.
Book Review: Great book, mediocre reading
Summary: 3 Stars
On The Road is a masterpiece, but this reading is disappointing, particularly in the rendering of Dean (who sounds like Howlin' Wolf on Valium.) Comparison of this recording with Kerouac's own reading of sections of On The Road highlights Matt Dillon's shortcomings and makes you wonder if he did any homework (i.e., listened to any of Kerouac's recordings) before stepping up to the microphone.Book Review: A glimpse of history
Summary: 3 Stars
"On the Road" does not tell a particularly compelling story, but it offers an interesting and entertaining view into the lifestyle of a generation of post-World War II era beatniks. Matt Dillon is sometimes great with his narrative and sometimes awful, running on in a dull tone and ignoring punctuation in what feels like an effort to plow through the material.