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| Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty | 
 enlarge | Author: Tim Sandlin
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 670291
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 1594482837
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781594482830
ASIN: 1594482837
Publication Date: January 2, 2008
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Condition: NEW BOOK UNREAD MAY HAVE REMAINDER MARK
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 Not the usual Tim Sandlin book February 10, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm a Tim Sandlin fan, and I'd read in our local paper that he'd written a new book about hippies living in a nursing home. Sounded interesting, so I rushed to Amazon.com to buy it.
I'm disappointed. Tim Sandlin usually gets me laughing, but there isn't much to laugh about in Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty. In fact, parts of it are, in my opinion, quite dull. The premise is unrealistic, and no amount of description and explanation can bring me to believe these characters.
The point of view flips from character to character, so we're in the heads of many, many people. It gets a little confusing sometimes remembering who is who and who does what and why.
Perhaps if I had lived through the sixties, I'd find this book less drab. There are so many references to those days when the moon was in the seventh house and Jupiter aligned with Mars, and many I am not familiar with. I suppose someone who'd like a trip down memory lane might find those details of vivid interest.
I'd hazard a guess that Tim Sandlin wrote this book out of love and respect for his generation, and this was a book he had a great time writing. Unfortunately, I did not have as much joy reading it.
 a jewel of a book February 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty" is destined to become the Bible of the boomers as we age and are forced to confront our own mortality. In Sandlin's vision of the inmates taking over the asylum, I felt like I was meeting up with some long-lost friends: the feminist activists, the stoners, the Deadheads, the masters of the sit-ins and the protest rallies. Those who didn't live through those years might view the book's characters as caricatures, but we who survived the '60s (perhaps without remembering much of that decade) can see that Mission Pescadero's residents truly represent that era.
It's not all hijinks and hilarity though. All of these characters have a history that is still a part of them. Rocky's brief fling during the Summer of Love leaves her with a lifelong reminder that there are consequences to one's actions, as does Judith coming out of her drug-induced coma only to be unmasked as a fugitive for the past 60 years. Phaedre, the self-defined creator of feminism who strove for equality and liberation has turned into the oppressor, turning the younger and adoring Suchada into nothing more than an indentured servant and sexual toy. And Winston lacing the iced tea with LSD, sending the residents on unwanted trips, reminds everyone that there's a reason that some parts of the past should stay in the past.
In addition, many of the issues raised in this novel are all too real and should be addressed before something like the plot of this book actually happens. Through his comedy, the author has given us much to think about: how we treat the elderly, how our society views its senior citizens as burdens instead of valuable contributors, how a "senior moment" can all too often be misconstrued by adult children and even the medical community (which should know better) as dementia. And most importantly, how those declining bodies still have the desire and ability to laugh and to love.
The issues raised, and the bittersweet ending, will probably stay with me for far longer than the hilarious trip down memory lane.
Tim Sandlin does it again November 14, 2007
This is a vey humorous look at the now. The first official Baby boomer has applied for social security!!! That makes this a very timely novel while also giving into the Nostalgia of the sixties thru the characters. Mr. Sandlin is one of the best novelists we have in this country today, this isn't his best novel but it will do until he gets us the next installment of the Gro-Vont series.
Great Novel for Baby Boomers November 2, 2007
Jimi Hendrix is a great novel for us Baby Boomers who remember the late 60's, early 70's and work in a Nursing Home or work with senior citizens in any way. It's also for people who will one day become a senior citizen. It's a joyous read for everyone.
Grumpy Old Stoners August 14, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As much as I would love to take credit for that descriptive title, I cannot. That is merely another gem from Tim Sandlin.
If you enjoy reading a well written, entertaining, laugh out loud funny book with a whole lot of heart then you are in luck because "Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty" will deliver on all counts.
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