Riding with Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty is truly one of the great literary adventures of this century. The passion and beauty that this novel conveys resembles the splendor of the untamed America. This wonderful dance is full of spontaniety and vigor. The complex movements flow into simple turns, then back again. At times quiet at other times outrageous this book is the unleashed excitement and the hidden sensitivity of humanity. Sal and Dean's quest for truth, love, and fufillment is the voyage every being must take on the road to finding who they are..."the road is life."- this book is life