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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by Tom Wolfe
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.