On The Road is one of my favourite books of all time. It’s influenced my travels and shown me how good writing can be. Now it’s being made into a movie.

It’s always risky making a film version of a classic.

But I think I might just like this one. Not only because I was at junior school with the lead actor, but because the trailer (below) includes what is possibly my favourite paragraph in any book I’mve read…

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars, and in the middle, you see the blue center-light pop, and everybody goes ahh…”

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