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David Carradine Reads “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac. Listen for Pleasure (two cassettes, abridged). The surprise is how flat and dated Kerouac’s beat novel sounds, an exercise in self-absorption that now carries only footnote historical interest. Footloose travel as antidote to alienation, leading to self-discovery and a sensitive evocation of people and places has since been done far more movingly by William Least Heat Moon in “Blue Highways.” Carradine’s twangy voice is good casting, but this sounds like a cold, first-draft reading, mispronunciations and all. Information: (800) 843-8404