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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Dazed Zeppelin

Dazed Zeppelin

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I am currently reading this amzing novel The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe and I just wanted to know if any of you bluelighters red it.

I am almost done and it is already one of my favourite books. Just wanted to know what you all think.
 
no i havent... what's it about?
school is done for me FOREVER in 3 days -- it might be something i would want to check out.
 
I think it's preety bad. The most interesting thing about it is the amount of people from the gang who go insane after such extended psychedlic use.

It's poorly written, from a period where there was an idea circulating around some writters, that it doesn't matter if people didn't understand what they were trying to say. Or more, that understanding isn't pivotal. I suppose it's a novel snap shot of an odd subsection of society in a odd period of time, and I suppose I'm glad I read it, but I'm even more glad I didn't buy it.
 
I went to Amazon to look for Jack Kerouac - On the Road and there was a list of other books readers of On The Road liked. It included Slaughterhouse 5[which i liked], The Catcher in the Rye [which I liked] Howl and other poems [which I liked] and this book... I kinda assumed I would like it too! ;)

eh... I think I'll check it out.
 
BilZ0r said:
I think it's preety bad. ....
It's poorly written, from a period where there was an idea circulating around some writters, that it doesn't matter if people didn't understand what they were trying to say.
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This book is a very well writen and shows his point clearly. Tom Wolfe is one of the best autors of the 1960's, The Electric Acid Kool-aid Test tracks the story of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, it is the closes book to show the revolution of the "hippy" generation.
I think it is a great read and one of the best books I ever picked up.
 
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If you liked Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests, you might like 'A Long Strange Trip, The Inside History of the Grateful Dead' by Dennis McNally.

It tells the story of origins of lsd, its makers and users, and how it all ties in to the Dead, excellent read concerning lsd's early days.

Also, The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture' by Stewart Tendler and Davaid May. This is also a explains the timeline/manufacture/use concerning lsd very well, this one is available on-line.

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/books/belcont.htm
 
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