![]() Well, with no due respect, Mark, you are wrong. I believe this to be the best new format idea ever invented…" " Acid Christ was born from my publisher's idea of a 'participatory biography.' Unlike conventional biography which keeps its subject at arm's length and attempts at every level to be fair and balanced, a 'participatory biography' would be the tale of how a major modern cultural figure, in this case Ken Kesey, effected the life of the author personally and subjectively. So I was finished with the book and had already tossed it down in disgust when I read the author's "explanation" for his approach to the book: Silly me, I read books front to back, and the “Acknowledgments” appear on page 415 of Mark Christensen's non-biography of Ken Kesey, Acid Christ: Ken Kesey, LSD, and the Politics of Ecstasy (Schaffner Press). ![]() ![]() If only I'd read the "Acknowledgments" first. ![]()
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