The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Posted on 02 September 2017 by Tom Wolfe

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. New Read Kindle ePUB The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test author Tom Wolfe – kino-fada.fr You know those books that blew your mind in high school Like Siddhartha or anything by Bukowski or Nietzche and you read it in a cafe trying to look cool to the older hippies who ran the place and one of them sleazed up to you and said, you have beautiful skin and gave you a copy of Tom Wolfe s book on the Merry Pranksters and tr...I think this should have been half the length Most pages seemed as though Tom Wolfe was simply describing some seventies hippy picture in as much detail as possible It would have beeneffective if he just showed me the picture.On the bus or off the bus The trolley glided along the tracks Hovering, floating, flying The ticket checker, his name tag read Mitchell, had the head of a warthog Feed the bee , he said What Jeff seemed trapped in a powerful time space vortex His hands looked rubbery, like Plastic Plastic Man But drawn by a meth freak A bunny, half gold, half silver, Day Glo halo, blood dripping from its fangs Feed the bee , she said Feed it now It s hungry Jeff turned to the other passen On the bus or off the bus The trolley glided along the tracks Hovering, floating, flying The ticket checker, his name tag read Mitchell, had the head of a warthog Feed the bee , he said What Jeff seemed trapped in a powerful time space vortex His hands looked rubbery, like Plastic Plastic Man But drawn by a meth freak A bunny, half gold, half silver, Day Glo halo, blood dripping from its fangs Feed the bee , she said Feed it now It s hungry Jeff turned to the other passengers I just want to grok , he thought, but the passengers turned toward him Sensing his thoughts They started to howl Are they howling because they re pixilated, speckled like a Seurat You should have tried the strawberry Kool Aid You have choices CONTROL CONTROOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLL Outside the trolley, flying monkeys were flinging sugar cubes at MaPaBuddySis Paul is dead Just go with ...These nut jobs actually came to Houston with their bus and parked it two doors down from my best friend in Houston Around 1969, moon, Led Zeppelin touring, people taking LSD and sitting on the hill in Hermann Park staring at the sun My older brother and sister would drag me along to look at the hippies then the next day in the paper would be another story of a young Houston man who had become blind forever by roasting his retinas with pupils wide open looking at the sun Guess I should h These nut jobs actually came to Houston with their bus and parked it two doors down from my best friend in Houston Around 1969, moon, Led Zeppelin touring, people taking LSD and sitting on the hill in Hermann Park staring at the sun My older brother and sister would drag me along to look at the hippies then the next day in the paper would be another story of a young Houston man who had become blind forever by roasting his retinas with pupils wide open looking at the sun Guess I should have given him my shades.Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters are the subject of this real life look into the lifestyle of California hippies , commune living, and all those weird things you kids have heard of happening in the sixties Well, The weekend they were in Houston, Ken Kesey a benign Manson went to the stadium where a day long concert of the summer Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe and the Fish, Quicksilver Messenger Service blah blah was happening and again I was in tow by m...A mega doozy A unique fauxdopey emblem of hippie Americana that blows angelic trumpets in your face with the celebration of a dadaesque topsy turvy rover s lifestyle So, oh so VERY unique Is it all nonfiction Really Or is it a horror film in disguise no, no, just hear me out wherein body snatchers captivate the fragile minds of the youth, ensnaring them in major LSD consumption, intersubjectivity, codependent thinking and a fantastical creation of genuine communal attachment The hipp A mega doozy A unique fauxdopey emblem of hippie Americana that blows angeli...This book was a huge disappointment It s hard to believe that a book that included so many interesting people, Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsbergh and Neal Cassady just to name a few, could be so tedious and uninteresting Wolfe s descriptions are clunky and monotonous This is a guy who is about as square and straight as they come attempting to describe to his readers what it was like for Kesey and the merry pranksters to be high on acid and most of it reads like a hollow impersonation of Jack Kerouac This book was...I love anything to do with the hippie movement I m looking at the era through idealist eyes but it was such a time of great change, great music, great clothes and freedom After my midterm on Tuesday I was lucky enough to find an old 68 edition of this book being given away for free at the student trade shelf, and it was excellent Bizarre, funny, interesting and unforgettable, The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test is one of the strangest things I ve ever read but also one of the most addictive sto I love anything to do with the hippie movement I m looking at the era through idealist eyes but it was such a time of great change, great music, great clothes and freedom After my midterm on Tuesday I was lucky enough to find an old 68 edition of this book being given away for free at the student trade shelf...What we are, we re going to wail with on this whole trip What Ken Kesey is is a prick, so let s not get any delusions about that But most great leaders are pricks, and the case Wolfe is making in this masterful biography is that Kesey, in his way, was a great leader His early days on the Furthur bus, discovering LSD and inventing the psychedelic ...First time around, this book positively made me want to try acid Jury s still out on that one, folks.I don t want to be rude to you fellows from the City, but there s been things going on out here that you would never guess in your wildest million years, old buddyOh, to having lived in the Sixties All the things people whisper and get reminiscent about today comes alive in The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test It certainly was a ride, in the most literal sense of the word.I mean, this book is nuts Crazy Insane Tom Wolfe presents his experience of Ken Kesey and his band of Merry PrankstersI don t want to be rude to you fellows from the City, but there s been things going on out here that you would never guess in your wildest million years, old buddyOh, to having lived in the Sixties All the things people whisper and get reminiscent about today comes alive in The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test It certainly was a ride, in the most literal sense of the word.I mean, this book is nuts Crazy Insane Tom Wolfe presents his experience of Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters, who traveled across the United States in a colourfully painted school bus named Further In the 60s they became famous for their use of LSD and other psychedelic drugs and unknowingly lay the foundation stone for the rising hippie movementEverybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there s not going to be anything to apologise about What we are, we re going to wail with on this whole tripThe book today is also...

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02 September 2017

Tom Wolfe