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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
It made me wish I could travel around in a technicolor bus. Except I'd play more Joni Mitchell and change all of America's hearts into peace loving friends out for a good time!
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Absolutely loooooved this book. I loved getting to read about the Grateful Dead and Hells Angels. The imagery was beautiful and inspiring.
Wolfe paints an amazing picture of how the psychedelic movement was started and Ken Kesey’s role, tying the beatniks with the hippies. The whole boom is a trippy but approachable experience, kind of like what the Pranksters were trying to create.
I have wanted to read this book for at least 20 years, not sure why I didn't sooner, but it's pretty great.
So many thoughts about this book. 400 pages was too long and almost stopped reading halfway bc I get the approach of capturing the acid head vibes but it just wasn’t fun to read (sober) for sooo many pages. Feel like I need to go read more about the pranksters in a historical context to accompany a book that came out in the moment. While these aren’t the choices I’d make, it’s super interesting to understand people so hyper focused on community and living outside established expectations.
And where is anything more on Faye??
And where is anything more on Faye??
adventurous
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speedrun de los libros de New Journalism en los que voy atrasada. me he enterado de 0 unidades de contenido tbh😬🙌🏽
Read this back in high school and thought it was pretty cool. I still think that there is a lot there that's great. But the trouble is that it's a lot clearer now how much shit there was in the story that they were telling themselves and the world. How much it was just privilege and naivete. Still sounds fun in parts though.
Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" is much more Hunter Thompson than Irvine Welch. Which was not a good thing to me, but I can see how this book would be great for someone else.
This book is considered an essential work about the hippie lifestyle. Wolfe, a journalist, tells the story of Ken Kesey and his Merry Band of Pranksters as they experiment with LSD. The book's style is supposed to feel trippy to reflect what's going on, but I found that more irritating than effective, unfortunately.
Unlike Wolfe's book "The Right Stuff," which was awesome and had incredible insights into the world of astronauts and pilots, this book seemed more surface to me. Wolfe is never part of the counterculture and never really gets to the heart of why the Merry Pranksters followed Kesey who is depicted as a Christ-like figure. After reading the book, I really didn't feel like I knew much new about the 1960's.
This book is considered an essential work about the hippie lifestyle. Wolfe, a journalist, tells the story of Ken Kesey and his Merry Band of Pranksters as they experiment with LSD. The book's style is supposed to feel trippy to reflect what's going on, but I found that more irritating than effective, unfortunately.
Unlike Wolfe's book "The Right Stuff," which was awesome and had incredible insights into the world of astronauts and pilots, this book seemed more surface to me. Wolfe is never part of the counterculture and never really gets to the heart of why the Merry Pranksters followed Kesey who is depicted as a Christ-like figure. After reading the book, I really didn't feel like I knew much new about the 1960's.