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Summary: You're either on the bus or off.
Review: An excellent book. The book has the ability to make a long plane trip a lot less plain and much more trip. Essentially a peek into the realm of Ken Kesey during the 60's but his experiences....you wouldn't believe. Crashing a Unitarian Church conference, staging Kesey's death, partying with the Hell's Angels. It doesn't get much better than this. Especially relevant if you live in the bay-area the picture crystallizes with familiar references. Two tie-dyed thumbs up.
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Summary: 'On the bus'
Review: The Electric Kool-Aid acid test is one of the most humorous, mind appealing things i have ever read. It lets you peak inside times you only wished you had been around for. Being too late to have experianced the '60's myself, Wolfe brings about a great sense of the entire Era, from its ruthless beginings on up. Lovely! Simply Lovely.
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Summary: Are you on the bus?
Review: What all of the previous reviews are trying to say::ask is............are you on the bus or off? If Cowboy Neal is taking you on a bus to Nevereverland this book is for you. As an added bonus: EKAT will show you how to live life as YOUR movie. Enjoy
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Summary: Wuthering indeed
Review: Well as if the Nineteenth Century weren't bad enough we now have Penguin shoving it down our maws every other day with another re-issue of some tepid "classic." Miss Bronte has done it again and wielded her magic pen as a wand and cast her net of sleep on the unsuspecting reading public of America. The only consolation the non-preteen girl reader can get form this sack of slumber is the final realisation that "wuthering" is British slang for "your eyelids are getting heavy, why don't you just nod off?" I really have to say to Miss Bronte that I did not find Garfield's antics convincing in the least
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Summary: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Review: If the psychedelic movement has a canon, this book is its bible. I have a special love for this book: It influenced my life more than any other piece of literature. I read it during my senior year in high school, as I prepared to apply to colleges. Tom Wolfe introduced me to people who had asked big questions about life, arrived at no real answers, and survived anyway. When my parents and school counselors applauded my decision to go to Stanford, they had no idea what my motivations were!
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Summary: They put microphones in the forest!
Review: To the creative, hippy at heart, this book will open up doors,and Im not talking about drug use! The "pranksters" putmicrophones everywhere... on the inside of the bus, on the outside of the bus (their primary means of transportation), and out in the forest behind the gorge where they lived. Thought, spirituality and experimentation abound here. A weakness that many wont come out and say is that sometimes the author lapses in to stream-of-consciousness writing. While it is in keeping with the spirit of "rapping", I found myself skimming those parts just as I skim the token "dream scenes" written in italics in Stephen King novels. They just get a bit wierd to follow. The reader is not high on acid-- just let us know whats happening and we can make our own inferences. Other than that, read on! Informative as well as I didnt know too much about ken kesey before I read the book. END
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Summary: Tom Wolfe--The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Review: Boy, where to begin. To start I must say Tom Wolfe is truly a gifted writer, this book works because is was written by a non-judgemental third party, in this case Wolfe, who told you how it was. Wolfe lets you form your own opinion, without his getting in the way, though on most points you would tend to agree with him. This is not just a story of Kesey and the Pranksters, Wolfe gets all of the little nuances,i.e the passages on Hesse, Nietzche etc. could they have fit the bill for a prankster? The book only has one major flaw, but it is not Tom Wolfe's or Ken Kesey's fault. The fault is the book came out in 1968, or it was published in a magazine I dont know I was not alive then, acid experimentation was pretty new and hardly anyone, at least no one in the book, experienced a flashback. So in turn the book seems like an add for acid use, which will turn off so more conservative readers, and it doesnt bring to light some of the possible detremental effects, but its no fault of Wolfe, so read this great piece of literature, not propganda.
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Summary: Read before you do acid
Review: This book explains thoroughly what tripping on acid is like and how it will rock your perspective. I would very much recommend you read it before you try the drug yourself, so you know what you are getting yourself into. Beyond that, it is a very interesting book and you won't want to put it down for the most part.
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Summary: Worth a reading
Review: This book is definitely a must read in the canon of American literature. Wolfe, as always, does an excellent job in his journalistic role, placing himself with Mailer and Capote in this area. However, the one unfortunate part of this book is that if you ARE reading it then you ARE NOT currently engaged in reading one of Kesey's own books, which is a shame. If you haven't read Kesey, you must. If you've read CUCKOOS NEST, you have to read SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION. If you haven't read SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION, you have my condolences.
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Summary: boogerboo
Review: i must say that after reading this book it has left me searching for a new high. High meaning in a book sence. i find it extremely fasinating that back in the day they were so creative in there trippy ways. i found wanting to read more and more, more than once i felt like i was on the bus with the merry pranksters. this book is defenatly at the tip top of my all time favorite books of all times. This book gives a whole new meaning to CONTACT HIGH! 1
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