On the Road, by Jack Kerouac

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What does the speaker say the book is about?
The cultural variety of the U.S.
Non-traditional culture in the U.S.
How to travel on little money
The importance of traveling when young
Why does the speaker think hitchhiking is harder now?
People no longer pick up hitchhikers.
The roads are too busy.
The police no longer allow it.
It is more dangerous.
What did the speaker think was interesting about the characters in the book?
They all had something to teach.
They were all from the same area.
They were all very kind to the traveler.
They all were different from each other.
What does the book make the speaker want to do?
Read more by the same author
Meet a wider variety of people
Take a long trip
Change her lifestyle
What is this talk mainly about?
A book she read for class
Personal reactions to a book
How a book became famous
The characters in a book

One of my favorite books is On the Road, by Jack Kerouac.
And, it's about_ uh ,it takes place in the forties.
And it's about the, the whole beatnik, um, culture underground bohemian life style.
And, it's, it's one of those books just really makes you want to get up and go and just do what Sal Paradise did and_ where he just got in the car and went, and he_ uh, there's a lot of hitchhiking involved and a lot of times no direction and it was just fun.
And it was just go go go drop everything, and leave.
And it's something that, that it's a lot harder to do in our society now, I know.
Hitchhiking you could get like killed if you picked up a hitchhikers sometimes.
But it wa- it was that, that same free spirit that can still be found if you try hard enough.
And, I just_ I loved it, it such an inspiring book and it makes you just want to get up and go across country and explore  the United States because there's so much to do here and there's so many people to meet.
And that's one thing I really liked about book is, is there were so many people that, that he and his friends came in contact with that...
were so unlike them.
And so, different from the communities that they grew up in.
And that's something that I always want to do.
And now after reading the book, I know that I have to, do at least one cross country trip before I die.