Shelfari! 10 counter culture novels that will get you high on life From the European Romantics of the 18th century avant-garde to the pre-WWI Bohemians, the world’s been struck by many a powerful counter-cultural movement. The one that’s closest to our hearts, though, spanned the mid-twentieth century, and was rooted in the USA: from the post-War 1940s right though to the early days of the 1970s, America was bombarded with hippies, flower-power, drop-outs, squatters, pacifist campaigners and (not least) feminists, each of them battling against the status-quo and the staid, conservative middle-classes. And what helped to stir this revolutionary stew? Why, books, of course! Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut (1969) It’s trippy, it’s tragic, and It’s one of the finest, saddest, most savage indictments of war ever written. Franny and Zooey, J.D. The Group, Mary McCarthy (1963) Sex and the City for the sixties (but much smarter), this novel was banned in some counties (Australia – we’re looking at you) when it first came out. Catch-22, Joseph Heller (1961)
Joe Hill's Thrills One-quarter of the year down and I figure it’s time for a report on the best of what I’ve read, seen, and heard in the first leg of 2014. Someone has to make sure you’re all properly entertained. I feel like if I don’t take action you might wind up sitting at home in your Captain Caveman jammies, eating Pop Tarts and watching 3-year-old episodes of Wipeout. Here are five reasons to live: Lexicon by Max Barry Holy shit can this guy write. Barry has a killer idea here - a secret society of people euphemistically referred to as Poets who have perfected the art of disabling free will through the manipulation of word fragments - and he sells the idea by reminding us of how easy it is to manipulate us already through the apparatus of mass media. Oh, man, and it has brilliant set pieces too, like when a whole small town in Australia transforms into a village of homicidal maniacs. Ultimately, though, you wind up falling in love with Barry’s characters even more than his brain-busting concepts.
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