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The Harvard Psychedelic Club (2011)

by Don Lattin(Favorite Author)

3.75 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0061655937 (ISBN13: 9780061655937)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

HarperOne

review 1: This book covers the Timothy Leary years with his fellow Harvard profs and their drug experiments. However, it does go beyond those years to explain what happened in their lives as a result of not only their experiments but their devotion to several drugs and the effects on their friends and families. The book is interesting about a time when drugs were an enigma to many and the experimentation was groundbreaking. Leary already had issues with marriage and parenthood before taking drugs regularly and always, it seems, thought highly of himself and his intellect. I did not love the book but it certainly covers a different time and a different place in history.
review 2: A book about the 60's psychedelic culture and four men who played a big role in starting it.L... moreet's just start with some issues that I had with this book.The main one is the fact that it includes some made up dialogues. I can understand that technique used in historical fiction, but in a non fiction book this blows. This and the fact that the author was kind of subjective in his views to the issue made it harder to completely believe the book.Another problem was that he created a nickname for each of them and it seemed like he was trying to keep them in this particular assigned role, so again too subjective and wonder how many things were cut out.I was also a bit confused by the organization. I can see that he wanted to compare all four men, but jumping all over decades is not something I usually like. After all the complaints I just voiced one may believe that I didn't like the book. But I surely did. It is a fascinating time and a fascinating subject. Would love to have lived back then and be in that crowd! So the topic itself makes me like the bookAnother thing I liked was how the author made some cultural references that made the times easier to imagine. I think I might have liked the book more if I actually lived back then and had a better idea of it. less

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