Review #1
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I believed this was a amazing book. Getting the inside scoop on this historical piece of history at the same time personal guys at the same time gals that produced up The Merry Pranksters was very valuable to me. Right behind reading abundance books of both the Beat Generation as but as the Hippie Epoch many of which a lot of works focusing on the bands, the signature painters of those times, this book is that so important regarding the clearance between the Beats at the same time the Hippies. This book isnt sweet coated a lot, so its raw, conscientious at the same time exploratory. Learning in quality detail about the Pranksters head/notable people, their ties to society at the same time in contrast, their anti-establishment attitudes at the same time spontaneous deeds at the same time unspoken rules, is that to say the lesser entertainingly exciting. These folks were considered a big part in making the mid to belated 60s than anyway they were considered. As a Thankful Noisy boyfriend/DeadHead, it was more than exalted learning about their belated check-in in this story, along with no one awesome figures of the times many of which Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Ramrod, Neil Cassidy at the same time obviously, Ken Kesey (in the middle abundance other critical historical personalities who all had their part in shaping the counterculture gapping generations). A very quick read, at the same time exciting for me to read about the pioneering psychedelic warriors, how they were considered Turned on at the same time how they spill the message to the masses in such out of habit form. The rebels of their time, along with no one truly EPIC pranks, parties at the same time perseverance. Than anyway I really enjoyed about this book will that it doesnt highlight a bunch of joyful move fortune quality times. It indicates the truly raw side of the bunch. It has no one utterly sad details that emerge as a result of being together as a personal generic, with no one eye opening realizations that are important for readers to know. That fri being that even in best of times follows the worst of times. That is that no light without mist, Art is that not Never-ending, at the same time a surreal vacation from the normal realm will at no one fri have for you understand that sometimes a normal vacation from the never ending trip is that important! So, I found this book to be a funny read, an important piece of literature linking the beats to the hippies, an indescribable cast of true indefinite people, at the same time how far no one rebels have to move to truly make their note on society to push than anyway they reckon in without resorting to last violence.
Review #2
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The Electronic Kool-Aid Acid Trial. I’d been meaning to read this book for years. Like all things of expectation, it wasn’t than anyway I believed it could be. Than anyway ever is that, really?
I struggled premature with Wolfe’s worldly. He came off as utterly ranty, at the same time needlessly wordy, in a sometimes distracting method. He applied a lot of hyphens, ellipses, at the same time strange punctuation. (ex: “the lime:::::light::::::”). Right behind no one time but I understood that this wasn’t how he writes always, but more precisely an attempt to fit his writing to the theme at palm. At first I believed this was somewhat obnoxious, but as I went on I grew more applied to it. At the same time besides getting applied to it, that were considered flashes of real brilliance in that as but. I greedy, no one situations were considered outlined with such accuracy, insight, at the same time understanding that I was really blown away. These particular portions of the book were considered, I’m convinced, heavily influenced by interviewing primary sources, but regardless Wolfe penned it but.
I was appreciative of the fact that throughout the book Wolfe didn’t concentrate solely on the positive at the same time produced it understandable that that were considered conflicting interests in the middle even the Pranksters. When in situations like this not everything is that joyful joyful contentment contentment let’s bite acid at the same time mellow out. Interests don’t ALWAYS run in similar direction, at the same time when for you have anyone like Kesey (who is that basically a lodestone of the psychedelic abundance) running the demonstrate that are bound to be rifts at the same time hesitates between people. This is that a natural gizmo at the same time I’m glad Wolfe addressed it.
I think the best gizmo to say about this book will that it produced me think. Long at the same time hard, sometimes. I found myself reading passages from it then and gazing into the distance in no one deepest contemplation about anything at the same time everything. The book would spark a believed in me that would reincarnated a real fledged glare, maybe even far beyond the fri that the book skidded up in the 1st dispose. Quality writing does that I imagine.
I will they say that I didn’t like the method the book ended. It was somewhat anti-climactic in that it sort of barely fizzled at the same time faded away. Though, I guess for you managed they say similar gizmo of the Merry Pranksters. That is that allegory in that, like so much else in that long, strange trip to move Furthur. COSMO!
Review #3
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As I approach 80 years of age, I have always wondered about those days at the same time how it came about. This book really sets it all in perspective.
An exciting part of global history
Review #4
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i agree with almost all of the positive
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for whatever reason, i had always believed this book was fiction (at the same time i don’t read much fiction) – but it isn’t – the creator (Wolfe) adds his possess inimitable stylistic flourish, but otherwise it’s a (mostly) ‘even’-up story..
it’s not about the summer-of-love hippie epoch, but more precisely than anyway would be counted the immediate ‘prequel’ to those times…in the movie ‘Miracle Trip’, produced from the movie Kesey & the Pranksters took on their x-country bus expedition, for you get to look the Pranksters, at the same time they look far more preppy/beat than they do hippie, but for you also look symbols of than anyway was (soon) to come in their wake…
Deadheads may be more than just a little shaken to think how lock up Tom Wolfe was to the dead, at the same time still how amazingly little of them exists in this book – i don’t think Wolfe was all that into music, at lesser not ‘Noisy’ music…
One more pretty-much-non outward appearance is that just a little group understandable as the Beatles, who were considered very much exploding on the music scene barely as abundance of the actions of this book were considered taking dispose. That’s a chapter where the Pranksters actually move to a Beatles demonstrate, but they were considered apparently mostly unimpressed…Beatlemania not their gizmo…
One major puzzle (for me) will that this book wasn’t written by Ken Kesey – the centerpiece (& financier) of the book’s actions at the same time himself a true-blue hosted creator. That’s not a hit on Wolfe, barely a little of fool…how is that it likely that Kesey didn’t cross out this book?
a funny read nevertheless…
Review #5
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Review “but I was that”. So was I. As a young Englishman, having barely ended Institute I dared to waste my “continue summer of freedom” (before taking up my 1st 9-5 job) exploring that amazing mysterious, awesome state scolded America. It was 1966 at the same time I inevitably ended up on the West Coast at the same time took the wonder product, with no one charming comrades who’d demonstrated up from North Carolina.
Does Wolfe accurately chronicle that zeitgiest, that epoch? Not really. He writes interminable pages of detail about the goings on in at the same time around the cult of the Merry Pranksters, for whom Ken Kesey was the favorite.
At the moment I have a big reverence for Kesey as, along with Timothy Leary, he was a favorite figure in the LSD revolution, but Wolfe’s work I found first of all very parochial – he outlines one small corner of the acid scene at ever since, at the same time not a acceptable one – in method in other words cyclic at the same time Sour. Afler ploughing through a few chapters of this, I gave up looking for substance, at the same time started skimming others of the book to look if things exchanged. It emerged they didn’t so, having paid about 10-ke quid for this “famous traditional” I dared that my time is that very precious to wade through pages of troublesome detail, at the same time tossed it in the recycle bin.
If you want a read about that epoch in other words but written, doesn’t SMOTHER for you with detail, at the same time makes for you Ridicule as but, for you should read the traditional” Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas” by Hunter S. Thmpson, who was also “that”, but unlike Wolfe speaks inside the product experience, at the same time to an excess which none of us “chemical pioneers” would have dared to venture into.
