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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
funny
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
funny
slow-paced
Written as if the pages have had an electric bolt to the dome. Truly wacky, never read anything like it, don’t know if I fully gave myself to it tbh. These hippies are all so apolitical, like nothing actually means anything. But an impressive impression from someone so out the scene, truly expressionist writing. Also I think “that’s not my movie man” needs to come back into the popular lexicon.
This book was a recommendation of Mark's and I read it in about a week. At first I thought the book was pretty hard to follow and I didn't really have any idea what Wolfe was talking about, and in all honesty I think I ended the book in the same mind state. But somewhere in the middle, I found myself turning the pages quickly and visualizing the pictures I was reading.
After reading this book it really makes me think about what the 60's and 70's were like. It seems like a ferry tale. or a good book I suppose.
The most interesting part about this book, and after having several conversations with Mark about it (who had read it a number of years before), was that there seems to be more than one way to interpret the book. Mark would try and have a conversation with me about he way he remembered one scene and in all honesty I couldn't even almost recall most of them. Who knows, maybe I was daydreaming through the book (I have that nasty habit), but all in all a good book. I think I'd like to add it to my to-read list again in a few years. I'm sure I'll be reading a completely different story then.
After reading this book it really makes me think about what the 60's and 70's were like. It seems like a ferry tale. or a good book I suppose.
The most interesting part about this book, and after having several conversations with Mark about it (who had read it a number of years before), was that there seems to be more than one way to interpret the book. Mark would try and have a conversation with me about he way he remembered one scene and in all honesty I couldn't even almost recall most of them. Who knows, maybe I was daydreaming through the book (I have that nasty habit), but all in all a good book. I think I'd like to add it to my to-read list again in a few years. I'm sure I'll be reading a completely different story then.
Tom Wolfe chronicles novelist and jackass Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters as they travel across America, hosting acid tests -- massive psychedelic parties serving LSD-spiked Kool Aid.
Half of me was like, ngl sounds like fun, I'm in (excuse me, I'm "on the bus")! But the other half was like, pota ang gulo niyo, sarap ipa-barangay
Hippies
Half of me was like, ngl sounds like fun, I'm in (excuse me, I'm "on the bus")! But the other half was like, pota ang gulo niyo, sarap ipa-barangay
Hippies
adventurous
dark
informative
slow-paced
honestly i'm off the bus. these people seem really unpleasant to be around. the girls by emma cline is so good and means i could never truly enjoy this book
overall very interesting and weird book but boring at times.
slow-paced
Did I love this? No, but I did learn much. I totally recommend reading this and Hunter Thompson's Hell's Angels together. It's interesting to read about such diverse groups within our culture, their
concurrent history and the overlap between the two.
concurrent history and the overlap between the two.
For the life of me I couldn’t get into this book, even after 400 pages