The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test was the defining work of the young author Tom Wolfe. Using the intense genre of hysterical realism, he tells the epic story of Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters, as they rocket across the country in a dayglow 1939 International Harvester school bus, rapping away on the best soundsystem anywhere, and filming everything they could.

Final thoughts

Whether they were using a movie as a metaphor for life, or a bus whose only destination was Furthur, Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters were perfectly captured and chronicled in this book. Regardless of its slight difficulty with the writing style, it perfectly demonstrates that an LSD experience can indeed be captured in a book.

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