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Anonymous
Posted November 14, 2003
This book was certainly original, interesting and entertaining. It puts a great spin on the hippie generation. The vantage point is great and the story is unique. I recommend this book to anyone interested in psychology but more importantly to anyone interested in the roots of hippiedom.
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Posted March 20, 2003
There are only a handful of memoirs about schizophrenia, and this book and 'The Quiet Room' are probably the best ones available. The author apparently inherited his father's excellent writing and storytelling abilities, as this is an engaging and insightful description of life in the 1960s and the descent into and emergence from schizophrenia. The description of the illness alone makes the book worth reading, and is in some ways reminiscent of 'Darkness Visible' and 'The Bell Jar'. The book is also quite humorous. Highly recommended.
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Posted August 3, 2002
I read this book when it was first published in the 1970's and it remains one of my favorite books of all time. In fact, I still remember the last line in the book and you will too if you read this book. This is an often tragic, yet funny and poignant book.
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Overview
"Most diseases can be separated from one’s self ... schizophrenia is something we are." So begins Mark Vonnegut’s depiction of his descent into, and eventual emergence from, mental illness. As a recent college graduate, self-avowed hippie, and son of a counterculture hero, Vonnegut begins to experience increasingly delusional thinking, suicidal thoughts, and physical incapacity. In February 1971 he is committed to a psychiatric hospital. The Eden Express, an ALA Notable Book first published over 25 years ago, is his honest, thoughtful, and moving account of the illness of schizophrenia.