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| Original Title: | The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test |
| ISBN: | 0553380648 (ISBN13: 9780553380644) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Ken Kesey |
| Setting: | United States of America |
Tom Wolfe
Paperback | Pages: 416 pages Rating: 3.92 | 66640 Users | 1886 Reviews
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Tom Wolfe's much-discussed kaleidoscopic non-fiction novel chronicles the tale of novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. In the 1960s, Kesey led a group of psychedelic sympathizers around the country in a painted bus, presiding over LSD-induced "acid tests" all along the way. Long considered one of the greatest books about the history of the hippies, Wolfe's ability to research like a reporter and simultaneously evoke the hallucinogenic indulgence of the era ensures that this book, written in 1967, will live long in the counter-culture canon of American literature.
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| Title | : | The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test |
| Author | : | Tom Wolfe |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 416 pages |
| Published | : | October 5th 1999 by Bantam (first published 1968) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. History. Classics |
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Ratings: 3.92 From 66640 Users | 1886 ReviewsArticle Of Books The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
I was assigned to read this book in college(1975). I couldn't finish it, it seemed to be so....poorly written. I tried again this year as I've just reread Kesey's books and On the Road. This book focuses on a bus trip organized by Ken Kesey and driven by Neal Cassidy(the real Dean Moriaty in On the Road shortly after Kesey finished Sometimes a Great Notion--and the bus ride is basically one long acid trip. I read it this time- more as an interesting history of compelling characters from aTo me, nothing says Christmas better than trippy colors mixed with love, peace, and harmony. Turn on the lights and turn yourself on, find the bus and/or Santa's sleigh, and it's truly the season to be jolly!... and freak out the squares, man.Break the mold in our lives, put on the day-glow, THINK DIFFERENTLY, and DEFY EVERYTHING! It's CHRISTMAS-ish. :) Let's check out those elvish helpers...The Merry Pranksters! Ken Kesey (un)led this band of social explorers took so many mind-altering trips
A mega doozy! A unique faux/dopey emblem of hippie Americana that blows angelic trumpets in your face with the celebration of a dadaesque topsy-turvy rover's lifestyle. So, oh so VERY unique. Is it all nonfiction? Really?! Or is it a horror film in disguise (no, no, no, just hear me out!) wherein body snatchers captivate the fragile minds of the youth, ensnaring them in major LSD consumption, "intersubjectivity," codependent thinking and a fantastical creation of genuine communal attachment? The
Did the Man in the White Suit have "Sweet Tooth" pushers ?In the 60s he teased through his hat, to great acclaim ; his liberal dose of saucy irreverence bursts with a briskvein of low humor. He injected the comic strip into dailyjournalism-scribbles and it became his pet province. Meanwhile,he remains a sort of modest church lady. Some of his pieces are swell; he's at his best when he's at his waggiest (for henever reaches wit). As a New Journalist, he dares to probe inner thoughts of others;
On the bus or off the bus?The trolley glided along the tracks. Hovering, floating, flying. The ticket checker, his name tag read Mitchell, had the head of a warthog. Feed the bee, he said. :::: What? Jeff seemed trapped in a powerful time space vortex. His hands looked rubbery, like Plastic. Plastic Man. But drawn by a meth freak. A bunny, half-gold, half-silver, Day Glo halo, blood dripping from its fangs. Feed the bee, she said. Feed it now! Its hungry. Jeff turned to the other passengers. I
My favorite idea presented in the book."A person has all sorts of lags built into him, Kesey is saying. Once, the most basic, is the sensory lag, the lag between the time your senses receive something and you are able to react. One-thirtieth of a second is the time it takes, if you are the most alert person alive, and most people are a lot slower than that.... You can't go any faster than that... We are all doomed to spend the rest of our lives watching a movies of our lives - we are always
I have Tom Wolfe's aesthetic taste figured out: He likes exuberance. He doesn't like ascetics. Asceticism is unamerican.In The Right Stuff, he prefers Yeager and the test pilots to the astronauts who don't get to really fly their capsules. In From Bauhaus to Our House, he loathes the European modernists (Mies et al.) and he likes FLW and Saarinen. In The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, he sides with Kesey and the Pranksters with their undoctrinaire deployment of LSD and technology against other
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