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Title: Hippies From A to Z: Their Sex, Drugs, Music and Impact From the Sixties to the Present by Skip Stone, Paul Williams ISBN: 1930258011 Publisher: HIP Publishing Pub. Date: 10 December, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.56

Rating: 1
Summary: Don't waste your time
Comment: This boring essay is a good one if you know nothing about the 60s at all or you can't find any other books. Most of the information seems regurgitated from other sources and doesn't seem that well written when compared to other books about hippies. Skip this one. A much better book is The Hippie Dictionary by John Bassett McCleary.

Rating: 1
Summary: Don't waste your money
Comment: Nothing new here. With a quick research engine on the internet, all of the information can be had in a few moments. Although it's nice to have all information compiled together, you can find much more on the web. But if you want a compendium, a better choice is the book "The Hippie Dictionary," by John Bassett McCleary.

Rating: 3
Summary: Enjoyable
Comment: While writing an undergraduate term paper at Harvard University on the Counterculture of the '60s and '70s, I used this book as a refference. I had a good time with reading it and it was a good start to my research. Stone's own experiences and opinions as an "old hippie" help to give this book a very friendly and personal glow. It truely made me wish that I had been born a few generations earlier (not that I didn't already wish that). The first half of the book is a more in-depth account of hippy philosophies, drugs, sex, fashion, activism etc...and the second half of the book serves as more of a list of events, people, places, music, literature etc... which helped to shape the counterculture. I would suggest this book for pleasure reading purposes rather than as a source of refference mostly because it is a biased perspective (the perspective of a true and full-blown hippy) and because the accounts of people and events (all of which are extremely essential to the understanding of the hippie movement) don't go into great detail...rather they are more like extended summaries. However if you are researching the counterculture, you aren't already very familiar with it, and you need a place to start, this book will serve as a great starting point with every aspect of the counterculture nicely summarized and topped off with the thoughts of a true hippie who was there, lived it, loved it, and wants to share it with the world.

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