UK - Ken Kesey's Magic Trip: Merry Pranksters redux

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Guardian

Steve Rose
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 24 November 2011 22.14 GMT

With reader comments

In 1964 Ken Kesey embarked on a coast-to-coast-and-back road trip, spreading the word of LSD with a busload of costumed cohorts; it is the stuff of pop-culture legend, and the founding gospel of the hippie movement. But most of what we know comes from Tom Wolfe's florid account in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. It's said that if you can remember the 60s, you weren't there, and in a way, Wolfe wasn't; he didn't meet Kesey and his Merry Pranksters until they had returned.

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just read kesey's cuckoo's nest, was an excellent read i recommend to anyone