Thursday, May 08, 2008

A Book in Review – Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty

Book Count: 38

Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty By: Tim Sandlin
Fiction 308 pages, 2007

This book is NOT a “I saw Elvis at 7-11” book. The idea is not that Jimi Hendrix is some how still alive, but that the youth of the 60’s are in their late 70’s- early 90’s and now in a retirement home/nursing home feeling the same anti-establishment feelings as their youth. And as the aged are treated much the same way. The main character is actually from Oklahoma and not an old hippie, but most of the others in the home were hippies. There are lots of references to rock, San Francesco and other parts of the 60’s culture and the story is a real page turner with humor, tragedy and twist and turns.

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