/lit/ - Literature

it's shit, wolfe is a hack

>>6542529
Just purchased it, seems like an interesting story but the authors note (at the conclusion of the story in my edition) makes it clear that Wolfe also captured the spirit of the trip itself in the writing of the story, and thus I wouldn't credit it as much more than a hallucinogenic semi-fictionalized travelogue novel.

>>6542529

Very fun read, if you're interested in the era.

>>6542534

this, it fucking sucks droopy wrinkled scrotal bags

>>6542537
Yeah, that's pretty obvious from the way it's written. Though I assume he did a fairly decent job of evoking the mood of the whole thing, even if it's not strictly accurate when it comes to exact historical details and such.

>>6542571

you assume wrong, cuck

this book is fucking trash

>>6542534
>>6542565
>>6542574
Samefag, please stop mindlessly shitting up this thread

Never read it but if you want a great and entertaining read from the time I'd check out Robert Anton Wilson's illumantas trilogy

Also because a lot of it was written on acid its one of the few books where the audio book helps a lot

>>6542579

lmao at this pathetic loser not being able to take criticism over a book he hasn't he read yet

you gonna cry, little girl, huh? you feel like crying like a little fucking queer? haha CUCK

>>6542583

Having read it, I doubt very much any of it was actually written on acid. It is great though.

It's extremely boring. Tom Wolf has a gift for taking exciting situations and murdering them. This book lead to my pet conspiracy theory that the CIA released LSD to hippies. Ken Keysey was a test subject for the US govt and then created The Grateful Dead with his acid tests and toured the country distributing it. The goverment learned that LSD incapacitated organized groups of people through experimentation on the military.

US Blues by The Greatful Dead:
>I'm uncle sam, that's who I am
>I been hiding out in a rock n roll band

With some tinfoil on top

>>6542596

that theory's bad and you should feel bad

>>6542599
It actually is a documented fact that the CIA distributed LSD to people as part of MKULTRA, the person you're responding to's theory takes this a little far I think though.

>>6542588
Just what I have read but you are probably corrext, LSD inspired perhaps but not conceived during.

RAW is an under rated mofo phoneix rising was great too

>>6542615
Prometheus rising to many beers

>>6542599
That's why it is a tinfoil theory

>>6542608
Oh yeah and Keysey really was a test subject for the govt before doing all of that stuff I mean it really happened, as partially described in this book.

>>6542585
>"Criticism"
>Nothing but one or two sentence posts with words like "hack", "cuck", "queer", "shit"
Chad pls go