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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 306
EAN: 9780312427597
ISBN: 031242759X
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: August 19, 2008
Publisher: Picador
Release Date: August 19, 2008
Sales Rank: 2362
Studio: Picador
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Product Description:
'An American classic' (Newsweek) that defined a generation. “An astonishing book” (The New York Times Book Review) and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey, his Merry Pranksters, and the 1960s.
Amazon.com Review:
They say if you remember the '60s, you weren't there. But,fortunately, Tom Wolfe was there, notebook in hand, politely decliningLSD while Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters fomented revolution,turning America on to a dangerously playful way of thinking as theirDay-Glo conveyance, Further, made the most influential bus ride sinceRosa Parks's. By taking On the Road's heroNeal Cassady as his driver on the cross-country revival tour anddrawing on his own training as a magician, Kesey made Further into abully pulpit, and linked the beat epoch with hippiedom. PaulMcCartney's Many Yearsfrom Now cites Kesey as a key influence on his trippy Magical MysteryTour film. Kesey temporarily renounced his literary magic forthe cause of 'tootling the multitudes'--making a spectacle ofhimself--and Prankster RobertStone had to flee Kesey's wild party to get his life's workdone. But in those years, Kesey's life was his work, and Wolfeinfinitely multiplied the multitudes who got tootled by writing thismajor literary-journalistic monument to a resonant pop-culturemoment.
Kesey's theatrical metamorphosis from the distinguished author of One Flew over the Cuckoo'sNest to the abominable shaman of the 'Acid Test' soirees thatlaunched TheGrateful Dead required Wolfe's Day-Glo prose account to endure(though Kesey's own musings in Demon Box are noslouch either). Even now, Wolfe's book gives what Wolfe clearly gotfrom Kesey: a contact high. --Tim Appelo
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great Book
I recommend this book to anyone that want an inside look at the start of the hippie revolution.
Rating:  - Post Jack Kerouac
I have really enjoyed many of Jack Kerouac's novels and was looking to explore something along those lines. This all takes place post Kerouac prior to the 'Woodstock' movement in the San Francisco Bay Area/ California. It can be a little difficult at times to read due to the lack of punctuation, but if you read it in a fashion to a person with A.D.D. or on a acid binge (like they were) it makes more sense. A little rambling, but so much fun!!
Rating:  - Good, better if you have read "On The Road First"
Good book.More in context if you have read "On The Road" by Jack Keruoac first.
Rating: - Fascinating to contemplate
"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" is the second totally drug inspired documentary I have read.The first was Hunter Thompson's autobiographical "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."That book, to me, was the scariest ever.Wolfe's, however, fascinated me.The difference I think is clear.Thompson was totally under the influence and control of drugs while covering a law-enforcement convention in Sin City.Wolfe is just an observer, not a user, as he follows Ken Kesey (respected author of "One Flew ... Read More
Rating: - Interesting and well-written
Tom Wolfe takes us through part of the acid-movement of the 60's with Ken Kesey (author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") and company as they embark on their journey across America to popularize acid.Wolfe writes in a way that sort of makes you feel that you are on acid too.His writing style in this book is very unique and he has an incredible way of describing things which is one thing I really enjoyed.Now I can finally understand what many of those baby-boomers went through!
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