Talk:The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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I felt like I had to clarify some of the language in the "influences" section. honestly, i'm not even sure "influences" is the correct title for it. regardless, i think i edited it in such a way that it no longer reads like an 8th grade book report. no disrespect, it was just reduntant and circular. I redid the intro for clarity as well... someone needs to tackle the summary, but i dont have the energy. it's not as confused as the other sections, so it would really just be simple proofreading and editing.
- Much better! Thank you very much Monkey Tennis 11:40, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
What is this? A film, a novel, a story, a what? --Menchi 08:49, Aug 21, 2003 (UTC)
- Its a book. Don't know much more than that, though. - David Stewart 09:03, 21 Aug 2003 (UTC)
It's a non-fiction book, written in the "new-journalism" style by Tom Wolfe in the 1960s. It records the activities of Ken Kesey, Hunter Thompson, the Hell's Angels, and other major figures from that time, especially in relation to the use of LSD.
Kesey later compared Wolfe and Thompson as "Shit floats and cream rises. Hunter Thompson is cream." Thompson himself described Wolfe as "a crusty old fart". Wolfe's generally conservative views and distain for the hippies comes across in his book, and this is cleary what fueled Kesey's and Thompson's dislike of him.
I have read the book and didn't immediately feel Wolfe's disdain for the hippies. It seemed to me that he was very ambililant to the whole "hippie" movement in general and Ken Kesey in particular, but any thing deeper than that I didn't pick up on. 207.157.121.50 04:04, 11 October 2005 (UTC)mightyafrowhitey
The entry would benefit from a rewrite into a more neutral point of view with some clean up some of the people mentioned (Tom Wolfe vs Thomas Wolfe). I know, I know, I should do it. Just pointing out the need so that others don't wonder if it's just them. --Zippy 02:09, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I had a go at NPOVing the intro and deleted the final thoughts, which seemed particularly POV. The summary section isn't so bad, but the influences bit doesn't seem to make much sense. It basically says: "In writing this book Tom Wolfe was obviously influenced by his life. But he didn't travel on the bus much and rarely took drugs. He did some interviews for this book." I'm not sure what to do about it. Thoughts anyone? Monkey Tennis 14:10, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] spoiler
Does one need to worry about spoliers in a work of non-fiction?Theblackgecko 20:57, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
- hmm . . . good question. i dunno. there's probably a wikiproject dealing with this . . . --Heah talk 21:55, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
- I cannot see how a spoiler warning would do any harm (if that is what you are asking). --Walter Siegmund (talk) 21:53, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
"I have read the book and didn't immediately feel Wolfe's disdain for the hippies. It seemed to me that he was very ambililant to the whole "hippie" movement in general and Ken Kesey in particular, but any thing deeper than that I didn't pick up on. 207.157.121.50 04:04, 11 October 2005 (UTC)mightyafrowhitey""
While I have a great fondness for beginnings of the hippie movement, I can certainly empathize with Wolfe's ambivilance. There he was, a pretty straight guy, careening around the country on a bus full of people who behaved (for the times) as though they were completely insane. Although it seems somewhat acceptable now, back then it was absolute lunacy to paint a schoolbus, wire it for sound and then travel the nation with the express purpose of shocking people. Wolfe must've felt like a white-suited fish out of (LSD-tainted) water.
--Helenabucket 16:03, 25 May 2006 (UTC)helenabucket
- actually, he wrote most of the book from interviews, notes, audio tapes recorded by Hunter Thompson & watching footage of the epic road movie filmed during the bus trip to NYC. he was not really "on the bus," literally or metaphorically. ZebulonNebulon 22:10, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] summary
Can someone please put a summary of the book back on the page? A poorly written one is better than none. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 152.13.45.8 (talk) 08:01, 7 February 2007 (UTC).
