The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe Reviews
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Newest Review: ... for some psychiatric studies of new chemicals, among which is, you guessed it, LSD. Supplies start to go walkies from the ... more
... labs and into the waiting mouths of a small community about three years ahead of its time. Around a nucleus of Kesey, Neal Cassady(already famous as Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's "On the Road")Ken Babbs, and a few more, there built up the group that came to be known as the Merry Pranksters. This story details their journey across America in the famous painted bus with "furthur" on the destination board, the "happenings" in San Francisco, when acid was given out in a big vat of ko...more
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Customer The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe Reviews (1)
by - written on 27/07/01, updated on 27/07/01 (Very useful, 1044 readings)
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I don't read this book any more. It makes me cry. Which is odd, really, since Tom Wolfe was no hippy flower child, and by no means ranked himself among the people he describes here. So I just have to call this book an excellent piece of journalism, as he captures the spirit of the times, movingly and grippingly and with a remarkable understanding of what it must have been like to be one of those psychedelic pioneers. The story starts around 1964, with one Ken Kesey,(yes, the famous author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (and the criminally ignored "Sometimes a Great Notion" and "Sailor Song"))who is ... Read the complete review
