The Hippie Handbook: How to Tie-Dye a T-Shirt, Flash a Peace Sign, and Other Essential Skills for the Carefree Life Reviews

• For Wannabee Hippies

  
  By AJYPAZ3JBHBKD on 2006-05-03
  I think if you're an old hippie (like me) you know everything in this book already..Now if you can justttt remember it!!! LOL I think it is written for young people who want to discover the art of being a hippie, and adopt that lifestyle, more than for old heads or the people who have "been there, done that" For the old heads, I would recommend a book I've had since it first came out in the 60's (i think) Living on the Earth by Alicia Bay Laurel. Or Carla Emery's book The Encyclopedia of Country Lore, these people lived the life and walked the walk, and the information is 'right on'. Namaste.
  
  

• Find Your Bliss!

  
  By A1YAFXQU1SEYYF on 2006-01-18
  Chelsea is way cool....grew up in a commune and all. She takes me back to my Berkeley days hanging out on Telegraph! She covers alot with such a great sense of humor and love. Chelsea shows you lots of fun things to do and tells you why they are so important to the hippie lifestyle. Like taking time to smell the roses and getting in touch with your inner being. Also the illustrations are fun. Stick it to the Man....Thanks Chelsea for making this book!
  Peace
  
  

• So Far-out!!!

  
  By A3161MG169LJQS on 2004-10-28
  This book is awesome! I learned a lot of my hippie skills from this book. I would highly recommend it to anyone even the slightest bit interested in the hippies. This book teaches you about everything from how to name your hippie baby to ambling to protests. You MUST purchase this book! You won't regret it.
  
  

• This book is totally groovy

  
  By A8WUW9V7N8KPC on 2004-08-13
  This book, like, totally rocks my world. I learned all my valuable skills from this book. Stick it to Babylon! Impeach Nixon! Ban the Bra! Hippies ROCK!
  
  

• Yes, I AM a hippie!

  
  By A2U0W6B8IVRVXI on 2006-01-12
  I don't usually like novelty books but this one was quite entertaining and informative. I keep going back to it. Find out how to tie-dye, macrame, make "oregano brownies", (I think I'd use mint instead of oregano), wear proper attire and don't bathe too often.
  
  I love learning about name origins so my favorite section was on naming babies. I passed with flying colors--giving my daughter a proper hippie name--even before reading this book.
  
  It all adds up--I'm a hippie! Hey, man, I'm going to split, light some incense, listen to some Joplin, and--later I'm going to meditate. Namaste.
  
  
• Young Hippie
  By A3HH2N58KOSRYC on 2006-01-29
  I am just 19 but everyone I've ever met said I was a "left-behind hippie" so when I seen this book on Amazon I just thought to myself "if I really am a "left-behind hippie" then I should probably have the Hippie Handbook." That only made perfect since to me, so I bought it and I LOVE IT!!! Now I really can be a "left-behind hippie"! Ha! Ha! Thank you!
  
  
• Groovy
  By A3VMSU7K7LBGD4 on 2005-06-11
  Once you get past the sterotypical idea of the book. It is actually a pretty good book. The craft ideas and simple history it has to offer is worth the price. For a person who lives the counter culture movement, It is a wonderful addition to my library.
  
  
• Silly book for silly people
  By A3TV44K7L1KH2U on 2007-10-17
  I'm sure people who liked this book enjoyed innocently its light-hearted way and its mirthy description of hippy things. However when I read it I have a very different experience.
  
  The book in effect denigrates everything about hippies as goofy and irrelevant. It's the same old tired view of hippie things as ineffectuous, anachronistic and unwanted. Most of all, unwanted. So everything the hippies worked on and advocated is a big fat joke, har-dee-har-har: their environmentalism, their delving into spiritual questions, their attempts to reform society and politics all become somehow grotesque slapstick. Call me humourless, but to me this amusement is just a kind of callousness, like playing cruel pranks on the town beggar; or like claiming benevolent people, people of good will, are bad; or foolish; or morally insufficient. I guess my reply to this lack of feeling might be the quote from Elvis Costello, "What's so funny about peace, love and understanding?"
  
  Perhaps the author could follow up with some other amusing books to create an entire series. I would suggest as possible titles "Waste Your Time Like A Philanthropist" and "Artists - Who Needs Them?". Can we possibly get any more shallow?
  
  
• Fun Book - Made Me Nostalgic
  By A25KRCDHNK67JC on 2008-01-21
  This is such an enjoyable book and I know I will be going back to it occasionally when I want to once again reminisce about those happy, groovy days of my younger years. I never lived on a commune but have always been curious about the experience. Chelsea's memories of this, told with a touch of humor, were fun to read about.
  For those who are younger, read this book and find out what you missed. Those were some of the best years of my life. Peace.
  
  
• childhood
  By A1QEF68GDUKHMI on 2008-04-11
  So way brought me back to growing up late 60's early 70' I loved this book.
  
  

• The Hippie Dictionary: A Cultural Encyclopedia (And Phraseicon) of the 1960s and 1970s
• Hippie
• Memoirs of an Ex-Hippie: Seven Years in the Counterculture
• Living on the Earth: Celebrations, Storm Warnings, Formulas, Recipes, Rumors, & Country Dances
• The Haight-Ashbury: A History