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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, by Tom Wolfe
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“Tom Wolfe is a groove and a gas. Everyone should send him money and other fine things. Hats off to Tom Wolfe!†―Terry Southern“The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is not simply the best book on the hippies, it is the essential book . . . the pushing, ballooning heart of the matter . . . Vibrating dazzle!†―The New York Times“Some consider Mailer our greatest journalist; my candidate is Wolfe.†―Studs Terkel, Book Week“A Day-Glo book, illuminating, merry, surreal!†―The Washington Post“Electrifying.†―San Francisco Chronicle“An amazing book . . . A book that definitely gives Wolfe the edge on the nonfiction novel.†―The Village Voice“Among journalists, Wolfe is a genuine poet; what makes him so good is his ability to get inside, to not merely describe (although he is a superb reporter), but to get under the skin of a phenomenon and transmit its metabolic rhythm.†―Newsweek
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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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Product details
Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Picador; First edition (August 19, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 031242759X
ISBN-13: 978-0312427597
Product Dimensions:
5.4 x 0.8 x 8.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.2 out of 5 stars
394 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#7,320 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I've always been somewhat fascinated by hippies; the free spirit, the promotion of love and peace and the desire to move away from materialism. The problem for me was the drugs. I had some experiences with the books titular drug but only a handful of tries. I found it too stupefying particularly since I was in college and needed to keep some semblance of wits about me. I was born as the hippie movement was on the down swing and by the time I was in high school and college the movement was moribund. It's not a criticism to say that the book was not what I expected and the hippies seem less concerned about peace and love and more concerned about being high 24/7.The book follows Ken Kesey, author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", and his merry band of Prankster as they drive around the U.S. in their day-glo school bus dropping acid and doing pretty much any drug they can get their hands on. What's interesting is that the book is basically written in the third person omniscient with the reader delving right into the very private thoughts of the Pranksters despite the writer not being present during a vast majority of the activities. Wolfe was helped immensely by the extreme narcissism of the merry pranksters who filmed almost everything they did and loved to talk about their experiences. The intention was to edit the film into a monumental movie but what seems AWESOME while tripping on acid may be far less so to a sober audience. I suspect it played out about as well as it would if I tried to splice my home movies into a theatrical release.The journey is less an acid trip and more an ego trip. My image of hippies advocating "flower power" and "ban the bomb" and putting flowers in gun barrels is completely absent here. This is all about hedonism, self indulgence and attracting as much attention to yourself as possible. It is essentially a group addiction dressed up as something revolutionary or evolutionary. Even when Kesey was being hunted by the Feds and the Mexican police down south of the border he would still drop acid and smoke weed at every opportunity. That isn't clear thinking, that's being out of control. The only thing they seemed really good at was throwing legendary parties but that's not exactly going to move a society.I knew a guy back in high school who dropped enough acid that he thought the world was coming to an end and stole a police car. He once told me that a large group of people were getting together on bicycles to ride downtown and cause `maximum capacity' i.e. block traffic through sheer volume. I said, `so you're basically going to be a jackass'. A few decades later and now he's a far right wing conservative, a transition that seems less uncommon than one might think. I did a little research on some of the Merry Pranksters and their lives today. Some are dead but most do seem consistent through the years and genuinely interested in making a positive difference but unless this book is painting an unfair picture of Ken Kesey his chief concern really does appear to be himself.Regardless of whether Kesey was a prophet or a goof this is an absolutely fascinating account. Wolfe writes in a stream of consciousness manner that almost feels like the book itself is an acid trip with :::weird:::punctuation::: and run on sentences that can extend the entire length of a page. In the finale Kesey and his pranksters move from being the center of the storm to being childish irritants which is sort of what they always were. The book isn't what I expected but it's a crazy journey that I highly recommend taking.
As I approach 80 years of age, I have always wondered about those days and how it came about. This book really sets it all in perspective.An interesting part of world history
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. I'd been meaning to read this book for years. Like all things of expectation, it wasn't what I thought it would be. What ever is, really?I struggled early with Wolfe's prose. He came off as incredibly ranty, and needlessly verbose, in a sometimes distracting way. He used a lot of hyphens, ellipses, and strange punctuation. (ex: "the lime:::::light::::::"). After some time however I realized that this wasn't how he writes all the time, but rather an attempt to fit his writing to the subject at hand. At first I thought this was somewhat obnoxious, but as I went on I grew more used to it. And besides getting used to it, there were flashes of genuine brilliance in there as well. I mean, some situations were described with such accuracy, insight, and understanding that I was really blown away. These particular portions of the book were, I'm sure, heavily influenced by interviewing primary sources, but regardless Wolfe penned it well.I was appreciative of the fact that throughout the book Wolfe didn't focus solely on the positive and made it clear that there were conflicting interests among even the Pranksters. When in situations like this not everything is happy happy joy joy let's eat acid and mellow out. Interests don't ALWAYS run in the same direction, and when you have someone like Kesey (who is basically a lodestone of the psychedelic variety) running the show there are bound to be rifts and doubts between people. This is a natural thing and I'm glad Wolfe addressed it.I think the best thing to say about this book is that it made me think. Long and hard, sometimes. I found myself reading passages from it and then gazing into the distance in some deep contemplation about anything and everything. The book would spark a thought in me that would turn into a full fledged reflection, maybe even far beyond the points that the book brought up in the first place. Good writing does that I suppose.I will say that I didn't like the way the book ended. It was somewhat anti-climactic in that it sort of just fizzled and went out. Though, I guess you could say the same thing of the Merry Pranksters. There is allegory in that, like so much else in that long, strange trip to go Furthur. COSMO!
A one-of-a-kind document, stylistically daring and lovingly researched, that shows at once everything appealing and everything appalling about the 60s with a remarkably neutral eye, neither idolizing nor demonizing any of the figures that it shines its piercing light on.
This book is a "must read"! It is the the key book defining the history of the intelligentsia of the best parts of the emerging psychedelic movement in the 60's. Its Main character is Ken Kelsey, famous for writing "One Flew Over the Cook-coo's Nest". One of Tom Wolfe's best, and clearly his most significant work.
A great book, one of my favorites. Fascinating subject, fun to read, and extremely well written, especially since it's narrative non-fiction. Given that half of the action occurs in the characters' minds, and given that three fourths of that is neither real nor readily describable, it has to be said that Wolfe did a truly expert job.
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