This book had been sitting on my shelf for over 5 years, unread. I had borrowed it from a teacher's collection, and borrow turned into "inherit".
Tom Wolfe is a powerful linguist, I feel. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test explores the world of Ken Kesey (author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) and the Merry Pranksters in a time before LSD was illegal in the United States. I say that Wolfe's grasp on language is so great because he was able to write objectively in the style of the Pranksters. This narrative is broken up by short bursts of pseudo-beat poetry as well as flow-of-conscious writings. It's really quite impressive.
I highly recommend this to anyone interested in the acid scene of the 1960s. It's an important work chronicaling the rise of acid and the king-like state Kesey held over everything. This review is horribly short, which I apologize for, but the book really just needs to be read. 5 stars.
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