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You had me cracking up, I swear :-D. I also liked the quote about the "law" godano agnelli. Really, well done. Of course, I'm looking for the album...

Nice proposal! Great to have you back :-)

@finnegan... what you say is understandable, but more than an escape, it seemed to me like a quest for vitality; it doesn’t appear that they wanted a place that could belong to them, not at all. They traveled because it was a need; frankly, I don’t know if they felt out of place, after all, they had friends in many of the places they stopped... on the road seems to me more like an extreme run just to feel alive; their sense of not belonging to particular places was probably intentional as well (take Sal with Terry).

here you go..

Fuck you, you are a fucking bastard, fuck you, with love, eh... in any case, you have to fuck off. Ah, how ugly envy is...

Was Terry the hot Mexican? :-D

I don't really like the review, it's too superficial - descriptive. The book is one of my cornerstones (how could it not be? :-D), something that goes beyond literature, for sure. Anyway, here Sal (Jack Kerouac) often downplays himself to inflate the ego of the other characters, Dean in particular, already showing his more closed-off character. It also has to be said that on the road, along with the subterranes, is the best book he has written; the others are a bit of garbage in my opinion (though I haven't read all of them). Among the beat generation, Burroughs is my absolute favorite (also as an author in general), but Kerouac is the one who has defined its spirit with his pen.

@avvelenata, even without going too far, I really "studied" the fantasy genre in middle school and high school; my anthology book had two stories taken from The Lord of the Rings :-D.
I still emphasize that, in my opinion, saying "the biggest book ever written in this millennium" doesn't mean anything at all; it's a completely empty phrase, after all, what does it even mean? How do we determine that a book is the best of the millennium? I mean, should we discredit certain literary genres in favor of others? What should the biggest book of the millennium be about? Should it address social issues? Should it be a fantasy? A thriller? Or maybe a nice piece of "experimental" literature?
I believe that such a statement cannot be either agreed upon or contested; it simply has no reason to exist. It's just a cliché.

Yeah, okay, let's not say nonsense now, the book is not at all a colossal load of crap. I also hate that whole modern trend that started here, but what sets The Lord of the Rings apart from any other fantasy saga is the "behind the scenes"; you're talking about someone who wrote a work after 20 years of studies on languages and history and practically invented a new world from scratch with many nations, each with its own cultures. It’s a very heavy book, to be honest, that you read only once in a lifetime (as a teenager), it stays with you, and you never dream of picking it up again. But if we consider literature like Poe, Lovecraft, Stoker, we cannot disregard Tolkien as well. It’s literature; you might like it or despise it, it doesn’t drive me crazy and I (almost) always preferred other readings, but it remains literature.

I agree with Mauro on the conceptual work behind this tome. However, I still believe that calling it the "greatest book of the millennium" doesn't make sense, at least not in such a general way. The novel remains a manifesto of fantasy; practically the entire genre has taken from it, and I'm not sure if that's a good thing... after all, if it hadn't been written, we wouldn't have to deal with 18-year-olds playing Magic and bookstores with crappy covers in their windows. :-D