A little tour in France vs The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test: Which Should You Read?

A little tour in France Henry James · 1884 ★★★★☆ 3.6 255 pages · ≈ 4 h 43 m · Challenging

“I am ashamed to begin with saying that Touraine is the garden of France; that remark has long ago lost its bloom.”

| caption = Cover of the 1900 edition, published by Houghton Mifflin

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom Wolfe · 1968 ★★★★☆ 3.9 416 pages · ≈ 7 h 42 m · Moderate

“THAT'S GOOD THINKING THERE, COOL BREEZE. COOL BREEZE is a kid with three or four days' beard sitting next to me on the stamped metal bottom of the open back part of a pickup truck.”

One of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Test is the seminal work on the hippie culture, a report on what it was like to follow along with Ken Kesey and the Merry…