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Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties
by Robert Stone

32865 Taylor's review
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bookshelves: favorites, non-fiction, own
recommended for: those with a passion for new journalism and/or the '60s & '70s, fans of honest memoirs

Two things that will color my review of this:

1. I'm convinced I was born in the wrong decade. I am completely addicted to and fascinated by the '60s and '70s, to the point where it actually grieves me that I didn't live through them.
2. Within the first 10 pages, I knew that Robert Stone is the kind of guy that I would have fallen head over heels for had I existed in those times and ever met him. Maybe that's a weird thing to say, and that's honestly never happened to me while reading anything else before, but I can safely say that Robert Stone is my kind of guy.

It seems to me that most of the people who weren't pleased with this were upset by one of two things (or both): the realization that this is not, in fact, another Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test or memoir about Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and/or Stone's writing style, which is rather... fuzzy.

This is a memoir of Stone's golden years, and he treats it as such. It's written in such a way that I can hear him tel...more

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message 1: by Robert
05/07/2008 11:33PM

127741 You're dressed for it Taylor.

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message 2: by Ruth
05/08/2008 07:09AM

335159 Sigh. I was born in the wrong decade, too.

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message 3: by Taylor
05/08/2008 07:19AM

32865 Haha, grass is always greener, right? Not that I'm not delighted with these times...

I'm completely obsessed with ancient roman history, too. Although I don't know if I would have wanted to be alive then unless I was super rich. I think life for the average person then wasn't so great.

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message 4: by Koeeoaddi
05/08/2008 07:25AM

321764 As happy as I am to have been there are lived through it, I have to admit I'm relieved it's over. No one should be expected to keep up that level of intensity (or grooviness) for more than a decade.

Nice review, Taylor.

:)

Ko

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message 5: by Taylor (last edited 05/08/2008 07:38AM)
05/08/2008 07:36AM

32865 Oh, I could imagine. It's probably best for everyone that it's over - America would be a very.... interesting place had it continued. My fascination is more about the creative stimulation than anything. There were some rather amazing products of those times. Social turbulence has provocative effects. But depending on how politics go in the next couple years, I'd say we could be due for another intense period in the not too distant future.

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message 6: by Robert
05/08/2008 07:39AM

127741 I totally agree with you Ko. It turned me into a duck. (Ah- what memories if only I could remember them).

Ko-come on Sunshine, as if you're not still groovy...

But truly, somewhere Sunflower Who-Walks- With-Puddles
pushes a shopping cart.

Great review Taylor. I think I read it yesterday.

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message 7: by Taylor
05/08/2008 07:45AM

32865 "They say if you remember the '60s, you weren't there." Or however the saying goes ;)

Thanks, Robert!

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message 8: by Robert
05/08/2008 08:14AM

127741 I wish I could have skipped the eighties though.

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message 9: by Taylor
05/08/2008 08:17AM

32865 I would say the same but they're the decade responsible for my birth, so I can't hate.

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