Books: Can't Find My Way Home

I am not the book reviewer in residence by any means, GC is better at critiquing literary creations than I am, but once and awhile, I read a book that is actually worth me taking the time to blog about. The full title of the book is, "Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Stoned Age. 1945-2000," and its author, Martin Torgoff takes the reader on an amazing journey through the years of drug use and how drugs pertain to the world of music and everything pop culture. I am obsessed with the world of music and, including drugs. Torgoff starts off with his own experimental period with weed and then even hallucinogenics like shrooms, but he stresses that he was in no way a hardcore druggy and that he does not believe that drugs are this amazing catalyst for the creation of brilliant music; and then he proves himself wrong. He does not talk about his life for long, instead he jumps into the 40's and the world of jazz, blacks, heroin, and where it all started. He chronicles every decade like a history lesson but actually talks about the awesome stuff that your history teacher never brought up in class. As the reader, you learn the science behind drugs, who created them, how they influneced music, people, lives, and generations. For some reason, drugs are a taboo topic sometimes and this book presents drugs in a way that makes everyone understand that drugs helped shape America's pop culture world. Torgoff paints imagines so vividly that it makes you feel like you are hearing Cocker at Woodstock and you in a Warhol style rave. Torgoff goes into such detail about events, that it really makes you feel like you were hanging out with The Dead at Haight-Ashbury. I don't really know how I can really describe how good this book is, I am finding it very difficult to review a book but anyone who likes to go back in time, especially the history of music, read this book.

Until Next Time,
Hazy

Book: Can't Find My Way Home: Awesome Read