Trippers
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.14 (854 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1908248963 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 504 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"What we did on our holidays" according to Julia E. Adams. This little novel is a window into the life and times of several young men in the early 70s who decide to take a male bonding and mind altering road trip to the English seaside town of Weymouth. Their experiences and observations ring true especially for those of us who came of age in those groovy years. The playlist of music alone is worth the ride and I suspect the book is more than a little bit autobiographical. I thought back to journeys and friends of my own along the way backpacking through the . Roger Keen said Fabulous Freakdom. It's the summer of 1971 and an eighteen-year-old Bill Booker has reached an important developmental point. With a childhood lacking in self-confidence behind him, he's branching out, finding new friends, thinking about purposeful journeys and being lured by the exciting scent of changing times. There's a host of new music to dig, from serious cred stuff such as the Floyd and Syd Barrett, King Crimson, Cream and Beefheart, to the more middling cred ELP and Hawkwind, to the downright lightweight, such a. zentao said One from the heart. Trippers is the story of a 1970's British Siddhartha. It is an engaging, true story of one young man in search of personal truth and meaning. Trippers - as the title suggests - is also an exploration of the effects and revelations experienced while under the influence of one of the most potent psychotropic compounds ever discovered - LSD. This is not a sensational exploitation, but a realistic exploration of subjective experiments in consciousness. It is at once empathic, confrontational, at times hil
Bill Booker wakes up to the fact that he's a lonely stranger amongst his so-called friends and, spurred on by the need to sort his head out, he sets off on a journey accompanied by some new friends, roving from place to place, wandering through his memories, dreams and reflections, cadging cigarettes from strangers, soaring upon hallucinogenic wings, devouring egg and chips in back street cafés, haunted by a pair of apparitions, his insecurity and his friend's abominable feet This is Bill's quest to find his personal Grail Bill Booker's unique outlook, thought-provoking comments and observations on life will appeal to anyone who enjoys reading about personal discovery, personal relationships and to every new generation that wants to know what hippies/freaks/acidheads really got up to in the early 1970s and anyone who lived through that time who's ready for a nostalgia fix.. On the road in England 1971 'I began to desire a compass and almost bought one, but realized at the last minute that it was the concept I was enamoured with, not the artefact.' A very English Kerouac set to a 'Withnail & I' scale, this book is based upon the author's personal experiences in the summer of 1971