The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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- ISBN13: 9780312427597
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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“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.
They say if you remember the ’60s, you weren’t there. But, fortunately, Tom Wolfe was there, pad in hand, politely declining LSD while Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters fomented revolution, turning America on to a dangerously playful way of thinking as their Day-Glo conveyance, Further, made the most influential bus ride since Rosa Parks’s. By taking On the Road’s hero Neal Cassady as his driver on the cross-country revival tour and drawing on his own training as a magician, Kesey made Further into a tough pulpit, and linked the beat period with hippiedom. Paul McCartney’s Many Years from Now cites Kesey as a key influence on his trippy Magical Mystery Tour film. Kesey temporarily renounced his literary magic for the cause of “tootling the multitudes”–building a spectacle of himself–and Prankster Robert Stone had to flee Kesey’s wild party to get his life’s work done. But in persons years, Kesey’s life was his work, and Wolfe infinitely multiplied the multitudes who got tootled by writing this major literary-journalistic monument to a resonant pop-culture moment.
Kesey’s theatrical metamorphosis from the distinguished leader of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest to the terrible shaman of the “Acid Test” soirees that launched The Grateful Dead required Wolfe’s Day-Glo prose account to suffer (though Kesey’s own musings in Demon Box are no slouch either). Even now, Wolfe’s book gives what Wolfe clearly got from Kesey: a contact high. –Tim Appelo
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If you are looking at this because it’s linked to Hunter S. Thompson, I would steer clear. The book was wholly unreadable. I left it on a Boeing 777 over the atlantic after about 50 pages. If you like Hunter, dont expect much from this.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Haven’t had much time to read this yet. I got a small way through it and it seemed to be pretty excellent so far. Hope I can find the time to end it!
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Though I reflect the sixties were an appealing time period in American history, I could just not get into this book whastoever. If you were there and understood what went on in San Fransisco in the 60s, you might like this book. But I reflect that it’s the most nonsensical piece of crap I have ever come across. At first, the book is appealing, but you have to admit that 432 pages is a BIT too much for completely incoherent acid ramblings, right?
The book is so unbelievably disjointed that I thought briefly that maybe “Tom Wolfe” was an alias for an conduct experiment that involved a million monkeys on a million typewriters. But sorry to say it is the fantastic journalist who wrote this, who by the way is reliable for a number of fascinating books like Bonfire of the Vanities. Say it isn’t so.
I despise to knock Wolfe, but I could write a better, more coherent book than this if I went up to a computer and typed completely random thoughts and words for an hour. Maybe this book is why so many people despise hippies. If you were there and have taken acid, you will like this book. Others will reflect, “God, no marvel acid is illegal now, since so-called books like this were really written under the influence of it and printed to bore readers out of their minds!”
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The only possible explaination for this atrocious book is that Tom Wolfe himself was partaking of the mind altering chemicals.
Tom Wolfe must have been under the influence when he wrote this atrocious book. It’s just not enjoyable on ANY level. He rambles on for pages in what I assume is his attempt to convey the psychedelic experience to his readers and it just doesn’t work. Perhaps if you have never taken these drugs you might find this kind of drivel persuasive but for me it was just silly.
Tom Wolfe really comes of age in Bonfire and Simmons.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I was truly excited to start the Electric Kool Aid Acid Test after hearing some excellent buzz about it. Sorry to say, I feel as though I was misled. I made it about 160 some odd pages before I stopped reading in lieu of another novel.
Although, to clarify, I do see how many view Wolfe as a revolutionary and a fantastic philosopher of American culture. There were times in the novel where I saw glimpses of genius. But, Wolfe seemed to be his own worst enemy in my opinion. His train of thought was, well “elusive” at best and sporadic and fleeting at worst.
I also would acknowledge that the book aims to capture a generation that rebelled against tradition, even in its writing style. Yet I do not feel it was done in a way that was able to also keep a fluidity to the novel.
A name suggested reading after a few glasses of wine… maybe I should have tried that.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5