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 enlarge | Author: Tom Wolfe
Publisher: Picador
Category: Book
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Rating:  133 reviews
Sales Rank: 2810
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 031242759X
Dewey Decimal Number: 306
EAN: 9780312427597
ASIN: 031242759X
Publication Date: August 19, 2008
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 On The Road (part two) April 3, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
!!Freeeeeeaky!! (Almost)::::dated
So, Tom Wolfe tries to describe the Hip-Acid-Flower-Love groove. It is effective--SOMEWHAT--though his book blots up extra words and bloats up too many pages ("There is too much distance between the covers of this book.")
Kerouac was accused of typing--instead of writing--in creation of "On The Road". And since this is but a sequel to "On the Road". . .(Neal Cassady is really in this book!). . . Wolfe is guilty of. . .too much typing {[(and too much TyPeSeTTing here)]}. . .but he does write, too. . .effectively enough so I, think, I don't need to try LSD. Effectively enough, so I become nostolgic, at times, for that time of Haight-Ashbury, for that time of innocent experimentation, for that time of "braless breasts jiggling and cupcake bottoms wiggling" (that's Wolfe!). . .
. . .but enough after 200ish pages; I want to be out of Wonderland. . .out of the pudding. . .off the bus. . .
 Very good...not great. November 17, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very interesting account of the birth of the Hippie Movement in America (if not the world). When Wolfe's words are flowing it's awesome. But his jumbling up of styles, though intended to reflect what he was experiencing, more often than not, is boring and a bit pretentious. Specifically, when he attempts Kerouacian spontaneous prose, it largely comes off, for me anyways, as gimmicky. I wish he would have to stuck to a straight ahead style...I think the craziness and uniqueness of what he was witnessing would have still come through. Overall, though, worth the time spent reading it.
 Counterculture history in a page-turner! November 13, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I loved this one.
I normally write long and detailed reviews (see my listmania lists) but, suffice it to say that almost anyone would much enjoy reading this well-organized and closely-documented lunacy.
My highest recommendation! *.*
best book ever June 13, 2007
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I read this book in college (as an assignment for history class) and it literally changed my life. I've read it three more times since then. It's the only book I have ever read more than once.It's interesting and thought provoking. And it's true. 'Nuff said.
Thought-provoking and amazingly well written June 1, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Wolfe masterfully examines the life and times of Kesey's "merry pranksters" by offering first hand experience in detail that I haven't read before. The scenes are vivid and made me really better understand this segment of a generation that I haven't been exposed to.
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