I didn't finish the acid test because I tried reading this while at a residential job where I could be (and was) interrupted frequently which didn't really work with the attention this story requires. Someday I want to pick it up again and give it another shot.

I've only read "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" and not the others, but it was a breath of fresh air even though it was written in the 60's. It seemed to really capture the feel of experience that they had, and it felt like a mental documentary to me (that is that all documentaries are based upon a perspective, and this clearly had a perspective). It's amazing what was being done at that time culturally and literally.

Required reading in some intro college level (or high school lit) classes. As it should be. Clever.

I think your opinion of a book depends on who you are when you read it. I read this in college, and it opened my eyes. It was my #1 favorite for a while. Not sure how I woudl feel about it if I read it now. I'm not quite as liberal.

I just read the kool-aid. Culturally important, but these people and the book are tedious.

acid test is of course fun but the other two are unbearable. really. just too frantic and no payoff.