Are YOU On The Bus? (First Draft)
Alrighty...So here's my book review. I decided to do something a little bit different and went with The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, written as if it was being published in The Village Voice in 1968. I chose this book for a lot of reasons but the two main reasons were: 1) Kesey's whole goal is to figure out how to capture the now. He understands the lag between thought and action and hopes to remedy that lag by any means necessary. 2) I've always been really fascinated by New Journalism (a term that wasn't even coined until the 70's so that was a hard one getting around in this review). Wolfe basically created an entirely new way of writing in this book in order to capture the new waves of consciousness that Kesey and the Pranksters were on.
So basically I tried to capture those two thoughts, without being so obvious. I tried to capture the tone of the times (thanks in part to my mom) without sounding too cliche - though the best part was realizing that everything from that time sounded cliched. So if I was going the cliche route I was in the right direction. Ok this intro is going on a little long - so in short let me know if/when I lost the narrative, I sound out of character/time, if anything I mentioned before is even remotely visible in the review!