Books like The Stoned Apocalypse (The Vassi Collection)
The Stoned Apocalypse (The Vassi Collection)
Stoned, rolling from here to there on that route from megasex to metatheater, & gathering no moss--just a certain amount of grundge--this is young Marco Vassi's search for...who knows. It begins with a Gurdjieffite psychic who comments that killing himself will be the "one significant act" of which he's capable; goes on to LSD & Scientology where a lovely girl smiles "deep into his libido," travels west to a commune, the Haight, the nude encounter, a place called the Grainery which is half macrobiotic, half fruitarian, & finally to a hospital as an unpaid aide where supposedly he's getting into other people's heads before he's his Laingian revelation. Sort of like that soiled stub of a Greyhound bus ticket, it's just a tedious remnant of the world we've seen too often in books like this even if Vassi has managed to retain some of his youthful energy.--Kirkus