- Taschenbuch: 192 Seiten
- Verlag: St Martin's Press; Auflage: 1st St. Martin's Griffin Ed (18. Dezember 1998)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 031218753X
- ISBN-13: 978-0312187538
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,4 x 15,4 x 1,4 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.8 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (4 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.260.586 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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It's hard to imagine that anyone writing for High Times magazine could provide incisive and cutting commentary on contemporary culture, but pessimistic smart-ass Chris Simunek doesn't let the herb go to his head when he sits down in front of the keyboard. This book is a biography of Simunek's years with High Times and his travels to Jamaica, a spring-break bash in Mexico, the Rainbow Gathering, and the annual motorcycle rally in Sturges, South Dakota. Cavorting with criminal bikers, angel-headed Rastas, and hug-happy hippies, Simunek maintains a sly cynicism that makes his self-pitying prose a dark and deeply funny pleasure. --James DiGiovanna
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This work from High Times magazine's "cultivation editor" is a good example of a niche book. Copies might be sacrificed to the flames at a D.A.R.E. weenie roast, but druggies will love it. At a Sturgis biker rally, among Rastafarians in Jamaica, on spring break in Cancun, at a Rainbow People gathering?if drugs are there, so is our intrepid reporter. Despite some existential posturing about the curse of seeing things that others don't and feeling like a freak among freaks, and a not-too-winning tendency to laugh at others more than himself, the author is smart, witty, and fun to read. An aging reviewer is tempted to cluck that he hopes Simunek straightens himself out with the drugs and booze so that he might realize his potential, but that kind of thing is likely to sicken both author and reviewer, so he'll pass. Recommended for larger collections.?Jim G. Burns, Ottumwa P.L., IA
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This book is written in a hip way, and its writer has had an interesting time getting stoned out of his mind.
Unfortunately he is young, cynical and arrogant, and his insights tend to be either shallow or insulting.
I think that he will one day regret having revealed how sordid and pointless a lot of the journalism is for his magazine, and how he exploited his expense accounts in a dishonest way.
Marijuana is a good plant with many uses, but this author and his magazine promote the wrong image for marijuana and its users, and they are one reason that marijuana is still illegal.
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Even if you don't give a hoot about smokin' one, pick-up this book. It's not completely freaky and unsettling like a great deal of beat works of fiction from an author like Burrough's, but it still has that candid and sincere feel to it. Meet a diverse array of characters while you tag along with the cultivation editor for a magazine about the greenest thing on God's earth. Once you're done, you are going to want everyone you know to read this book!
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Aint a smoker worth a dime who aint read High Times. As a cultivation editor of that esteemed publication, Simunek manifests the dreams of many a substance abuser with no real goals, no real aims, no real direction-that is, he gets paid to follow the psycho-delic brick road to where there is untold smoke at the end of the travel rainbow. Free drugs, hoping for a non-commital feel and making a hasty getaway with limbs unbroken is Simunek's Holy Grail. He gets an expense account which seems non-accountable and sometimes doesn't get the story. His editors don't seem to care too much provided he turns up with some buds (not the six pack variety) and a packet of papers. The Marx Brothers had Zeppo, the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers have got Simunek.
While these kind of tales have the pot-ential to bore some people stupid, Simunek relates his adventures in a way that makes us straightos wish we'd inhaled, chuck in our jobs, sell the house and the golf clubs, pack up the family and the Bob Marley vinyl and move to California. Once there, we could live out our days worrying only about low flying choppers and nosy neighbours with an unhealthy interest in genetically confused botany.
Simunek is more than just a doper. He has an acutely sensible eye for cultural criticism and has an ascerbic wit through which he makes humorous value judgements about everyone and everything. His real talent is not so much for detail that can make these kind of yarns tedious, but for the analysis of situations from a viewpoint motivated by both a need for self preservation and lifestyle protection. I like that in an author. He is well aware that the attention span of many of us is weaker than a sparrow's ankle and moves onwards quickly to the next town, the next adventure, the next bong. His relating of a story at an LA heavy metal convention is simultaneously hilarious and sad.
I reckon Simunek has probably given one lung, one nostril and innumerable brain cells knocking out this book. Pull out the bong, light up the lava lamp and recline in the bean bag. Where there is smoke there is fire - Simunek is worth a read.
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