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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by Tom Wolfe
Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters' bus trip and acid tests, written in Wolfe's new-journalism prose. The 1960s from inside.
Read it if…
you want the counterculture's defining book.
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Skip it if…
you dislike exclamation points.
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Three things you will actually use
- Style can be reporting.
- Movements have leaders.
- Furthur.
Do this first
Read the bus chapters.
Our verdict
Wolfe's Pranksters.
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