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Books : Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (Twentieth-Century Classics)
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (Twentieth-Century Classics) by: Richard Farina List Price: $16.00 CD-Charts Price: $10.88 You Save: $5.12 (32%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780140189308 ISBN: 0140189300 Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: May 01, 1996 Publisher: Penguin Classics Studio: Penguin Classics Sales Rank: 50725 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: Farina evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the Jazz Age. The hero, Gnossus Pappadopoulis, weaves his way through the psychedelic landscape, encountering - among other things - mescaline, women, art, gluttony, falsehood, science, prayer, and, occasionally, truth. Amazon.com Review: This is the ultimate novel of college life during the first hallucinatory flowering of what has famously come to be known as The Sixties. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me follows haunted ur-hippy Gnossos Pappadopoulis upon return to his old university town that's just tilting into a new era, and Gnossos' involvement in a swirl of sixties-style drug taking and the search for love and the meaning of it all. It is a hilarious and haunting book. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Nostalgia isn't what it used to beFor maximum enjoyment of this book, I suggest that you read it in 1968 when you are 17 years old. You will think it's hip, relevant and revelatory. Those forced to read it dreary 2008, however, may find its charms drifting right over their head. What to make of the paragoric Pall Mall, women's dorm curfews, the "rucksack"? Even now, however, it's valuable as an anthropological exploration of the dawn of the Sixties, when young adults, who had up until then been dismissed as children whose lives had no read impact on the world of adults began to see themselves as movers and shakers in the wide world. The narcissism, the inherent sexism, and the naive belief of the youth movement that they had discovered what no generation ... Read More: Rating:  - An American ClassicIt's hard to knock this surrealistic journey from the mind of a truly original talent. At turns hilarious and horrifying, the sensibility behind the story shines through at every page, a post-apocalyptic coda to "Huckleberry Finn." Rating: - The Beat Sound without the Beat SoulThis is a tough book to critique - it's championed by Thomas Pynchon and other people from that era as a book as important to the Beat Generation as "On the Road" and work by Ginsburg and Burroughs. The language has a jazz styling that captures the sound of the era. The lack of rhythm and disjointed prose, coupled with characterization as detailed as a haiku, seems in line with the generation that brought us "Howl." Yet, there is something not quite right here, something missing, something unsatisfying. With generations in love with the road novels, full of drugs and sex, but also a spirit of freedom, one that continues to inspire current generations, this book doesn't fit in properly. Farina's so-called masterpiece is little more than a disjointed narrative ... Read More: Rating: - a good book about a strange lifethis is real and worth reading for those who want to know about the strange times of beat era lifestyles. he doesnt dwell on the sex exploits, but they are there. as they were for all during those days (and still today). the best part is the way you see how open to change all the world was. the controls were much less than and odddball behavior was not anaylyzed. it just happened and changed the way people lived. Rating: - We Don't Like It When Someone Breaks the RulesI was compelled to read this book. I had just read David Hajdu's wonderful biographical book, *Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina*, a book that I highly recommend to readers generally interested in Dylan and Baez and the cultural phenomenon of the 60s zeitgeist, or to readers wanting to know more about the U.S.'s fascination with folk music during the late 50s and early 60s. I'll get to Farina's book in a second, but first I want to say something about Richard Farina. Hajdu's seductive account of Farina--his manic ambitions, peripatetic wanderings, multiple artistic talents, brilliant conversations, spontaneous insights, Lothario lifestyle, and con-artist bravado--compelled ... Read More: |
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