Acid Dreams

[Derek Davis]

>This was a wild book, a-and the first book the gave me the idea that
>LSD might be u-um interesting, and the first book which pointed me
>towards Ken Kesey and the Dead.

I haven't read this, but it might be fun to go back to Tom Wolfe's Electric
Koo-Aid Acid Test, which was the definitive Kesey tribute of the 60s.

>ObPynchon: Anybody else notice that Vineland and  Sailor Song by Kesey
>had a similar ambience, or was it just me?

Yeah, definitely, the main difference being that I couldn't get through
Sailor Song because, at least by mid-point, it had no substance, just a
string of clever, determinedly funny incidents. Seemed like Kesey had lost
his oars and was trying to pick up someone else's.

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