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| 1001 Books to read before you die : Best 1001 Books Alphabetically | | 199 | Nickelini, November 2008 | |
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Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test was pretty good, gave me acid nightmares.
There must have been some, though I don't recall exactly, in Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs. Funny book about random stuff. ... - Going a lot slower than it used to. I do enjoy it, still, but the movies may become the definitive versions for me.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe - so far, the best book I'm reading at the moment. Hilarious and interesting history of the LSD group that included (and was ... ... Doing a bit of the fantasy reading with The Dragon Reborn and The Two Towers, and I think I'm gonna start reading The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test soon. Trying to decide between Mistry's A Fine Balance and Wolfe's Electric Acid Kool-Aid Test. ... Vice on the advice of several people in this group. This is my first Pynchon, by the way. I just last spring read Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, which was published much closer to the time period. I hope this one (IV) holds up to the authenticity of the other. ... seems like a lot of work. I already have House of Leaves, so I will try that one first.
Saturday I started reading The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. I'm a little bit freaked out by it and I am having truly bizarre dreams. I've always been told that I have a hippie mind set, but I hope ... The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Travels With Charlie by John Steinbeck
The Road From the Past by Ina Caro
River Horse by William Least Heat Moon (it's a river journey but has the same feel as a road trip)
The Happy Isles of Oceania by Paul Theroux (same idea)
... ... One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. As I had recently read The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test it was good to read this sooner rather than later. I can't believe I never had to read it for school or anything!
Fourpawz2, would you ... Tee hee...
The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe Since they've tackled The Right Stuff, I'd love to see more Tom Wolfe, maybe The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Hell's Angels, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, or The Great Shark Hunt would be fun, too. Since Ralph Steadman's illustrations already exist for much of the above, they wouldn' ...
... Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
Other random books I enjoyed:
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
The Butc ... Bumping to E-books:
Still haven't changed my opinions since my last post:
The Electric Kool-Acid Test is one of my favorite books. Tom Wolfe and Ken Kesey are both very cool.
The Elementary Particles is my favorite Houellebecq novel. Not for everyone, but I find him an incredibly ... Haven't read Wolfe's fiction, just his "new journalism" stuff: ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST and a few others.
He and John Irving have some kind of literary grudge match going, don't they? I've seen Irving, in particular, dissing Wolfe, dismissing his writing. Wonder what that's all about... ... Trophies by Richard Brautigan
9. Hippie Hippie Shake by Richard Neville
Possibilities:
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
Storming Heaven by Jay Stevens
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out - Timothy LearyAtomic Candy - Phyllis Burke Since turn about is fair play, I choose The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe which I have always wanted to read, and will now wish for on BookMooch. ... by Hermann Hesse.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhnwas also extremely influential.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid test by Tom Wolfe was also pretty good.
Another good one is Wholeness and the Implicate Order by David Bohm.
If he likes ... ... The Mayor of Casterbridge, but we also got to choose two other books from a list of about 150. I chose Dharma Bums and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test as a big fuck-you to the book list.
But really. You shouldn't be teaching Twilight or Stardust in English class. That - holy cow! - ... ... The Edible Woman count? Or Biggie and the Fricasseed Fat Man?
Also Like Water for Chocolate
Lemons Never Lie
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe ... about the 1960s.
Nixon Agonistes Garry Wills
Trout Fishing in America Richard Brautigan
Rabbit, Run John Updike
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom Wolfe
The Fire Next Time James Baldwin ... Yeager, the recreations of the aerial test flights...lovely. I read the book too--my favorite Wolfe offering (although ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST is fun).
What did you think of Norman Mailer's A FIRE ON THE MOON, Ian? Worth seeking out for my space reading? ... I love to read outside. Right by my house is great open space and sometimes I like to bring my book (I'm currently reading Electric Kool Aid Acid Test ) and sit in the tall grass and read and feel very picturesque.
Basically anywhere where I can be for a long time...with a great book, and ... ... the wonderful characters, the social commentary on mental health care and because Ken Kesey was friggin' awesome (read The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test to find out why).
Of Mice and Men is one of the most perfectly written short dramatic novels I have read. The setting and the ... ... materialism.
I still have quite a bit of early Tom Wolfe that I love - Radical Chic & Mau-mauing the Flak Catchers, The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, The Pump House Gang, From Bauhaus to Our House, The Painted Word. They are all short. Maybe that's part of the issue - his short ... I cut my Wolfe teeth on early stuff like The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Kandy Colored Tangerine-flake Streamlined Baby. In these works he sounds like Dylan's reporter, Mr. Jones, (You walk in the room, with your notebook in your hand . . .
He's trying to report something from the ... I finally, finally, finally get to chime in. I've read The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test but remember very little about it. It was so long ago, sorry.
How about Kokoro? ... miser father at all.
Okay, I get to list one of my all time favorite novels that is not on here yet:
Who has read: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test? And what did you think?
-- M1001 The Electric Kool-Acid Test is one of my favorite books. Tom Wolfe has the ability to jump from tradition style journalism to abstract, artsy descriptions of LSD trips. He really captured the 60's experience -- I think, I wasn't actually around then -- and Ken Kesey is one of my favorite ... The Electric Kool-Aid Acid - Tom Wolfe.
This certainly isn't a favorite, just the only "e' book that I've read. Coincidentally, it has a cast of characters similar to those described in my "d" book, Drop City. Tom Wolfe writes about Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters http://en.wikipedia. ... According to Wikipedia, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe is a work of "literary journalism". Who knew. Haven't read it, so I can't comment further. Just adding to the list. ... real-life Dean Moriarty. Kesey wrote Sometimes a Great Notion and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Tom Wolfe's The Electric Coolaid Acid Test - about Kesey, Cassady and the Merry Pranksters. Allen Ginsberg's Howl. The Octopus, by Frank Norris
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
White Noise Don DeLillo
Barfly by Charles Bukowski
Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test? It's the first one I came to in your library, Phil, that has 1700and-something co-owners. If I'm wrong here I'm going to have to suggest everything on your list till I get it right. 2007, I picked 150 books to read. However, the last Harry Potter book completely ruined things for me and I had to desire to pick up another book until recently. I got around 50, if I was lucky (see http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=6899).
So, I'm not going to bite off more than I ... The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe Instead, there were some kind of nuts out here.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe. -^288 (media1001) I think you're probably right about Kesey and McMurphy. It's been a long time since I read The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, but it must be where I got most of what I know about Kesey now, lol. ... bet you anything that Kesey wanted someone like himself to play the role of McMurphy. I don't know if you have read The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test yet, but it is all about Kesey and you can really see the similarities between McMurphy and Kesey in that novel.
... I thought it would be. I thought Sylvia Plath would be more dreary and artistic, but I liked her writing style.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test was excellent. Had no idea what to expect of it, but I discovered that I love the style of Tom Wolfe.
The Elementary Particles is ... ... about drugs would also be in your list to be kept private. Books such as Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream and The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test.
I guess Robert Anton Wilson's Sex and Drugs: A Journey Beyond Limits is not one you would make visible (especially since my ... Tom Wolfe (The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test > Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest > Jack Keruauc The Dharma Bums, Some of the Dharma, > Zen Flesh Zen Bones, Dhammapada. Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud (but that might be a compliment to some...LOL)
A Maggot by John Fowles
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
The Idiot by Dostoevsky
and for something modern, The Yellow Bastard by Frank Miller
(The first four were from the 1001 must-read books ... ...southern England this time
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The electric kool-aid acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Tamar by Mal Peet
The dancers of Arun by Elizabeth A. Lynn
The Bourne identity by Robert Ludlum
... is my first direct encounter with Wolfe, the writer who brought us The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test--and I’m just a little giddy with, finally, discovering the delights of his masterly synthesis of reportage and incisive, cutting-edge, ... ...
"i am an invisible man."
ralph ellison, invisible man
"that's good thinking there, CoolBreeze."
tom wolfe, the electric kool-aid acid test
and while i could hardly insert the whole thing here, since i'm not sure there are any periods in the whole thing:
"i saw the best ... ... be a working class hero) , Stranger in a Strange Land (just mind-bending and positive), Howl (poetry can be visceral), The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test (there's a community out there), and Naked Lunch (even strange, obsessive fantasy has value). All of these books spoke to me in a context I ... ... on my MTIN (Maybe This Is Next) pile:
Conversations with Shelby Foote
Night Over Water by Ken Follett
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by {Tom Wolfe
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman
The crazed by Ha Jin
New Orleans Stories edited by John Mille ... ... Buddhism, Taoism, martial arts, qigong, non-fiction and mysteries among others rather than, say, Thomas Wolfe (besides The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test anyway).
How about the rest of you? Have you managed to change your plebian (if they were) reading habits for something finer? Yesterday, actually. I bought The Historian and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test with Christmas Gift Cards. ... and
thirteen moons by Charles Frazier
Those were the gift books. With gift cards, I have purchased (so far) The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe and The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. Now leave me alone, I have reading to do.
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