I FINISHED THE BEAST!!!

The beast, of course, being Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamavoz.

I'm still in shock, actually. I need to read some really trashy chick lit to make up for these past 3 months of such learned reading.

7/10

976 points

An Afternoon in the Sixties

Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream, by Jay Stevens, was a whirlwind introduction to America's relationship with LSD, from the scientists and psychologists who controlled it in laboratories, the men who tried to start a spiritual revolution based on the discoveries from their trips, to the hippies who almost got away with an entire cultural shakedown.

I've never really been well-read on this subject, and this book offers a lot of great background information and a who's-who on the most important players. However, there was so much covered that I feel like I've only scraped through the very first layer of comprehension. I'm planning on reading more on the topic in the future, so I'm glad I read this first to give me a solid primer to the various aspects of this complex, controversial and often misinterpreted substance.

8/10

574 points