- Taschenbuch: 384 Seiten
- Verlag: Bantam; Auflage: Reissue (1. Dezember 1982)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0553264915
- ISBN-13: 978-0553264913
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17,5 x 10,7 x 2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.5 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (37 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 524.745 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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They say if you remember the '60s, you weren't there. But, fortunately, Tom Wolfe was there, notebook 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 bully pulpit, and linked the beat epoch 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"--making a spectacle of himself--and Prankster Robert Stone had to flee Kesey's wild party to get his life's work done. But in those 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 author of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest to the abominable shaman of the "Acid Test" soirees that launched The Grateful Dead required Wolfe's Day-Glo prose account to endure (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, Amazon.com -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Taschenbuch .
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They say if you remember the '60s, you weren't there. But, fortunately, Tom Wolfe was there, notebook 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 bully pulpit, and linked the beat epoch 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"--making a spectacle of himself--and Prankster Robert Stone had to flee Kesey's wild party to get his life's work done. But in those 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 author of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest to the abominable shaman of the "Acid Test" soirees that launched The Grateful Dead required Wolfe's Day-Glo prose account to endure (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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Let me preface this review by saying I was not alive in the 60's, and I never talked to my parents about their experiences, yet through this book, I feel as though I shared in the madness that were the Acid Tests. Tom Wolfe's masterpiece "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," is an absolutely amazing book written about a group of Hippies hell-bent on spreading they're organized chaos throughout the nation. Apart from the subject matter (which I'll get to) this book is as well written as you could imagine. Somehow, Wolfe captured the experiences of the Merry Pranksters with his writing style. His use of the elipses (...), run on sentances, and his insightful commentary actually puts the reader into this experience. The experience itself is a whirlwind journey accross the US, in a cloud of pot-smoke, a rush of speed and a series of mescaline and lsd induced hallucinations. All the while, this seemingly nonsensical journey is carefully laid out as only Wolfe could have done. To read a book about 15 men and women that travel the nation not knowing right from left, Wolfe explains everything in stunning imagery and intense detail. Whether or not you approve or liked the hippies movement, and even if your offended by drug related subject matter, you should read this book. As a purely literary work, it's easily top 10, and as a story of the acid movement and a historical look at the 60's, there's none better.
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Dieses Buch ist mein Lieblingswerk von Tom Wolfe. Es geht hier um Ken Kesey und die Merry Pranksters und ihre Reise durch die USA. Aber das ist nur die Rahmenhandlung. Es geht in diesem Buch um das Überschreiten von Grenzen und das Ausprobieren immer neuer Sachen. Natürlich spielt LSD in diesem Buch eine große Rolle, denn der Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test ist nichts weiter als ein mit LSD versetztes Kaltgetränk, das die Merry Pranksters bei den Konzerten der Grateful Dead den Zuschauern angeboten haben, um zu sehen, wie das wirkt.
In diesem Buch trifft man lauter alte Bekannte wieder. Ken Kesey, der Autor von "Einer flog übers Kuckuksnest" ist natürlich dabei, ebenso Neal Cassidy, der Dean Moriarty aus Jack Kerouacs Buch "On the Road", oder eben die frühen Grateful Dead.
Dieses Buch ist rasant geschrieben und bietet einen guten Einblick in die Hippie-Subkultur der 60er Jahre. Begleitend zur Lektüre empfehle ich die Musik der Grateful Dead. (Dies ist eine Amazon.de an der Uni-Studentenrezension.)
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I've savored just about every word this man's ever written. I still vividly recall him at a lecture he gave in Berkley in 1972 standing at the lectern in his white Gatsby suit, starched pink shirt and nattily knotted tie. I can't recall the ostensible topic. He covered so much ground and had such a wealth of ideas and insights that the topic was irrelevent anyway. He's always been our keenest observer of American culture, on subjects ranging from hippies, art snobs, wall street, the space race, to the Southern nouveau-riches.
In terms of unadulterated reading enjoyment, however, this book is still my favorite. He captures the era perfectly. This was the period in the mid-sixties when the hippie philosophy and lifestyle was still genuine, before it had become commercially exploited by the mass media, before Manson and Altamont and the seeds of evil. It was an uncorrupted, pure, joyous movement and moment. Owsley was the bay area chemist who produced hits of Sandoz-quality acid that sent the children out dancing blissfully through the night and into the purple dawn. It truly looked like a brave new world. If you are young and can't undertand why former hippies wax nostalgic about it, it's primarily (at least to me) because that tiny era of innocence can never be recreated. The waters of cynisism have washed away all the bridges to that idyllic past. The era can, however, thanks to Tom Wolfe, be revisited. I urge you to take the tour.
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The weakest from Wolfe
First I want to say that I am a big fan of Tom Wolfe. I have read "A man in full", "Bonfire of Vanities" and "The right stuff" with great pleasure and enjoyed every page. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 19. Oktober 2005 von A. Majewski
I wasn't alive in the 60's
I was not alive in the 60's but reading this book gave me a good idea what it was like. For anyone that is even remotely curious as to what that decade is about, this is the book... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 28. Juni 2000 von Jennifer L. Richter
Pure Reading Enjoyment
I've savored just about every word this man's ever written. I still vividly recall him at a lecture he gave in Berkley in 1972 standing at the lectern in his white Gatsby suit,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. Juni 2000 von Bruce Kendall
The Cool Aid to my lit project
This book is one of the coolest, weirdest, and hardest to understand book I have ever read. The topics it talks about are amazing in their awkward happenings. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. Mai 2000 von Will Segrist
The Cool Aid to my lit project
This book is one of the coolest, weirdest, and hardest to understand books I have ever read. The topics it talks about are amazing in their awkward happenings. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. Mai 2000 von Will Segrist
Lifelong Inspiration
I first read this book 20 years ago. Last month a got a new copy and read it again. I realized that this book has been speaking to me, inspiring me all those years. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 6. Mai 2000 von jj
FURTHUR
I suppose the style of writing Tom Wolfe chose to adopt for this book was an attempt to try and capture the turned on and tuned in mind state of it's characters. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 27. März 2000 veröffentlicht
'On the bus'
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. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 6. März 2000 von Brennan
Are you on the bus?
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. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 4. März 2000 veröffentlicht
Wuthering indeed
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. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 8. Februar 2000 von Christopher Hebert
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