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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.92 — 80,214 ratings — published 1968
Chronicles, Volume One (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.98 — 62,947 ratings — published 2004
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.18 — 88,576 ratings — published 1968
The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.75 — 626 ratings — published 1987
Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,302 ratings — published 1985
1968: The Year that Rocked the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,491 ratings — published 2003
11/22/63 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.35 — 704,880 ratings — published 2011
No One Here Gets Out Alive (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.94 — 46,969 ratings — published 1980
Wonderful Tonight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.73 — 16,526 ratings — published 2007
Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,684 ratings — published 2001
The Haight-Ashbury: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.87 — 288 ratings — published 1985
Inherent Vice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.80 — 39,898 ratings — published 2009
I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.69 — 21,919 ratings — published 1987
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.06 — 156,502 ratings — published 1974
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.06 — 388,374 ratings — published 1971
Utopia Avenue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.99 — 27,974 ratings — published 2020
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,238 ratings — published 2019
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.36 — 530 ratings — published 2020
Edie: American Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,415 ratings — published 1982
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.26 — 4,974 ratings — published 2008
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.69 — 101,843 ratings — published 1965
Trout Fishing in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.75 — 17,246 ratings — published 1967
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,093,840 ratings — published 2009
Countdown (The Sixties Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.90 — 11,052 ratings — published 2010
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.21 — 380,490 ratings — published 2010
A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,301 ratings — published 2008
The Portable Sixties Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.94 — 362 ratings — published 2003
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,773 ratings — published 1966
Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.54 — 451 ratings — published 2007
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,525,662 ratings — published 1969
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.55 — 129,858 ratings — published 1963
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.00 — 791,489 ratings — published 1962
1966: The Year the Decade Exploded (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.11 — 532 ratings — published 2015
Tomorrow-Land: The 1964-65 World's Fair And The Transformation Of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.74 — 397 ratings — published 2013
Loose Change: Three Women of the Sixties (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.98 — 538 ratings — published 1977
The Sixties (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.68 — 63 ratings — published 1998
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.01 — 53,708 ratings — published 1979
The Sixties (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.43 — 330 ratings — published 2009
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,372,266 ratings — published 2001
American Pastoral (The American Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.95 — 91,344 ratings — published 1997
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.99 — 13,134 ratings — published 2011
Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps (New York Review Books Classics)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.13 — 540 ratings — published 1972
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,719 ratings — published 1959
They Marched Into Sunlight: War And Peace, Vietnam And America, October 1967 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,975 ratings — published 2003
Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,601 ratings — published 2005
Laurel Canyon (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,064 ratings — published 2006
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.20 — 795,186 ratings — published 1962
The Beatles Anthology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.38 — 18,184 ratings — published 2000
“Mrs. Porter was from Virginia and had a smooth-as-cat-fur way of speaking. She taught me how to say, “Fiddle-Dee-Dee,” just like Scarlett O’Hara and she made her split-pea soup with bacon and even let me try on her lipstick sometimes as she teased up my hair in the same sixties style she wore, “Ala Pricilla Presley,” whoever that was.”
― 1:32 P.M.
― 1:32 P.M.
“This photo is classic aestheticism. The engaging expression, the loose dress and fluid posture. Early to mid-1860's, if I had to guess."
"It reminded me of the Pre-Raphaelites."
"Related, definitely; and of course the artists of the time were all inspired by one another. They obsessed over things like nature and truth; color, composition, and the meaning of beauty. But where the Pre-Raphaelites strove for realism and detail, the painters and photographers of the Magenta Brotherhood were devoted to sensuality and motion."
"There's something moving about the quality of light, don't you think?"
"The photographer would be thrilled to hear you say so. Light was of principal concern to them: they took their name from Goethe's color wheel theories, the interplay of light and dark, the idea that there was a hidden color in the spectrum, between red and violet, that closed the circle. You have to remember, it was right in the middle of a period when science and art were exploding in all directions. Photographers were able to use technology in ways they hadn't before, to manipulate light and experiment with exposure times to create completely new effects.”
― The Clockmaker's Daughter
"It reminded me of the Pre-Raphaelites."
"Related, definitely; and of course the artists of the time were all inspired by one another. They obsessed over things like nature and truth; color, composition, and the meaning of beauty. But where the Pre-Raphaelites strove for realism and detail, the painters and photographers of the Magenta Brotherhood were devoted to sensuality and motion."
"There's something moving about the quality of light, don't you think?"
"The photographer would be thrilled to hear you say so. Light was of principal concern to them: they took their name from Goethe's color wheel theories, the interplay of light and dark, the idea that there was a hidden color in the spectrum, between red and violet, that closed the circle. You have to remember, it was right in the middle of a period when science and art were exploding in all directions. Photographers were able to use technology in ways they hadn't before, to manipulate light and experiment with exposure times to create completely new effects.”
― The Clockmaker's Daughter
