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Sixties Books
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.92 — 79,289 ratings — published 1968
Chronicles, Volume One (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.98 — 62,125 ratings — published 2004
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.18 — 84,165 ratings — published 1968
The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.75 — 621 ratings — published 1987
Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,281 ratings — published 1985
1968: The Year that Rocked the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,412 ratings — published 2003
11/22/63 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.35 — 665,834 ratings — published 2011
No One Here Gets Out Alive (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.94 — 46,539 ratings — published 1980
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 — 3,655 ratings — published 2001
The Haight-Ashbury: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.86 — 283 ratings — published 1985
Inherent Vice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.80 — 38,732 ratings — published 2009
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,037,787 ratings — published 2009
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.21 — 359,541 ratings — published 2010
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.06 — 154,652 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 — 380,813 ratings — published 1971
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 5 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.55 — 123,595 ratings — published 1963
Utopia Avenue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.00 — 27,284 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 4.04 — 37,810 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 — 513 ratings — published 2020
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,357,567 ratings — published 2001
Edie: American Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,349 ratings — published 1982
Wonderful Tonight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.73 — 16,203 ratings — published 2007
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.26 — 4,865 ratings — published 2008
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.69 — 98,432 ratings — published 1966
Trout Fishing in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,815 ratings — published 1967
Countdown (The Sixties Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.90 — 10,925 ratings — published 2010
I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.69 — 21,571 ratings — published 1987
A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,213 ratings — published 2008
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,715 ratings — published 1966
Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.54 — 448 ratings — published 2007
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,492,420 ratings — published 1969
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.00 — 774,943 ratings — published 1962
A Single Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.05 — 37,905 ratings — published 1964
1966: The Year the Decade Exploded (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.10 — 509 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 — 392 ratings — published 2013
Loose Change: Three Women of the Sixties (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.98 — 534 ratings — published 1977
The Sixties (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.73 — 62 ratings — published 1998
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,860 ratings — published 1979
The Sixties (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.42 — 321 ratings — published 2009
American Pastoral (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.95 — 88,912 ratings — published 1997
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.99 — 12,954 ratings — published 2011
Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps (New York Review Books Classics)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.13 — 529 ratings — published 1972
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.46 — 99,087 ratings — published 1959
They Marched Into Sunlight: War And Peace, Vietnam And America, October 1967 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,955 ratings — published 2003
Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,457 ratings — published 2005
Laurel Canyon (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,957 ratings — published 2006
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 4.20 — 783,629 ratings — published 1962
The Portable Sixties Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sixties)
avg rating 3.94 — 352 ratings — published 2003
“John Lennon once claimed that his band, The Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Lennon’s life paralleled Christ’s - both came from nothing, became figureheads of worldwide cults and changed the world. They also had premature, painful and undeserved deaths at the hands of others who envied and craved their abilities, influence and popularity. In the late Sixties, Lennon even seemed to adopt a Christ-like image with his long hair, beard and the various robes he started wearing, perhaps as a sly visual parody of his previous remarks.”
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“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
