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  4 0 Thanks for asking an actual question (we've been hit by a bunch of spam recently) and an interesting one to boot. What about Sometimes A Great Notion by Ken Kesey? Kesey was kind of like a hippie godfather (he said he was "too old" to be a hippie) and the novel is set in Oregon, although it really doesn't have anything to do with actual hippies. And despite what you may think of the book, it does have the word "great" in title.  Yes, I am probably grasping at straws here.  Looking forward to seeing what David Wright comes up with. Abby Bass answered in Book Recommendations about 1 year ago | Report 4 comments by "Cagey", Bion Satir, and Josh Bomb… 0 0 That's what I was going to suggest. "Cagey" commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 Me too. And I don't think its grasping at straws - it has hippies (the younger brother), it aimed to be a greatist NW epic, and it takes place in OR. Bion Satir commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 Wonderful book, it really is a NW Epic! Josh Bomb commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 Fourthed - it really is a fine book. I'm sorry my mind was scarred by feature film of it when I was a kid. David Wright commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  2 0 Great suggestion, Hayden - you are soooo close, but I believe he asked for THE great hippie novel of Oregon. I'm not going to equivocate (except a little on the Oregon part - this one strays north): the book you seek is "Nioka: Bride of Bigfoot," by Paul Doyle. Paul runs the Columbia City Cinema in Seattle. Nioka is a young woman who is determined to discover for herself what is real, true and perfect. Fleeing civilization, she seeks wholeness and solitute in the vast rain forest of the Pacific Northwest. There she befriends Indians, lives off the land, encounters Bigfoot, solves a mystery, fights a clearcut, outwits the evil Captain Vibram, and comes face to face with the crocodile god of her own subconscious. I rest my case. Sorry, Ken Kesey. David Wright answered in Book Recommendations about 1 year ago | Report 4 comments by Abby Bass, hayden, and David Wright… 0 0 Nice. I knew you wouldn't let me down, David! Abby Bass commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 Hey, I was quite proud of myself for only equivocating on the "great" part--and very good is almost the same as great. I don't know this one, but I do like Columbia City Cinema. Points for that. hayden commented about 1 year ago | Report 1 0 Oh, I'm sorry, i meant THE great UNDISCOVERED hippy novel of oregon... David Wright commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 This books sounds awesome, and also a lot like a dream I had once! I love reading your suggestions, David. Squirrel Girl commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  2 0 Since all descriptive words are flexible and since it is hard to compete with Kesey, I'm going to suggest as an alternate the novel "Couch" by Benjamin Parzybok. It starts out in Portland and goes to other places. I actually haven't finished it yet, but it is pretty captivating and strange. It is a book about a couch. haha. Yah, but it is... You might want to buy it from Powell's to get the full Portland experience. haha. Anyway, here is a link----> Couch. Also, how can you go wrong with a book published by a press called "Small Beer Press?" :) Kristin Bell answered in Book Recommendations about 1 year ago | Report 2 comments by Josh Bomb and David Wright… 1 0 +1, I was also going to suggest Couch. Love that Ben Parzybok! Pretty sure Thom is actually me. Josh Bomb commented about 1 year ago | Report 1 0 I was at Book Expo America a few years back and one of the curious spectacles there (aside from the curious juxtaposition of William Shatner signing his new bio to long long lines just down from Leonard Nimoy signing copies of his BBW nude photo book to rather shorter lines) was Benjamn Parzybok and Gavin Grant running around the place with a big inflatable orange couch to promote the book, until someone made them stop, I think. I love Small Beer. David Wright commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Anything by Ken Kesey, of course. One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest is set in Oregon. Barring that, Beverly Cleary set a number of her works in Portland, OR. HL Davis won a certain prize for a piece set in OR (Honey in the Horn). Don Barry, Le Guin, Chuck Palahniuk, and others? Not so great nor hippy. But they do some Oregon settings too. Playing it fast and loose with 'novel': DRUGSTORE COWBOY would be my quintessential Portland/Oregon experience. Rev.Enant answered in Book Recommendations about 1 year ago | Report 2 comments by Sphinx and Rev.Enant… 0 0 Le Guin falls under NOT SO GREAT??!!! Are you kidding? Say it ain't so, Rev.... Sphinx commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 Her Portland Or/set in the future book I'm thinking of (the title of which is entirely escaping me.. arg) = not so great as a suggestion for hippy/great/novel. Le Guin writes good fiction though, and her personal character as an author, IMO, outshines her fictional characters by a full magnitude/star. Rev.Enant commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Ha! What a great question.  I'd have to go with Wild Life, by Molly Gloss.  It's got a tough, feminist lady dressing in men's clothes in the early 1900's, an obsession with the local flora and fauna, and maybe some Sasquatches.  It doesn't get much more Oregon and hippie than that, and it's a very good (not sure I'd go quite so far as great) novel. hayden answered in Book Recommendations about 1 year ago | Report 1 comment by David Wright… 0 0 MAYBE SOME SASQUATCHES!!!??? ssssshhhhhh..... David Wright commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 There are two novels that come to mind that nearly every hippy-ish oregonian has read over and over. "The Monkey Wrench Gang" and its sequel, "Hayduke Lives" by Ed Abbey. They do not take place in Oregon, but one of the protagonists eventually lands there (in the sequel, I think). Oddly enough, they are easily two of Abbey's crappier books. But they seemed to tap in to the zeitgeist of Oregon's more peculiar form of hippy-ism that was in full bloom by the time of "Hayduke Lives". Abby's fiction is best represented by "The Fool's Progress" and "Black sun", IMO. Black Sun especially. Desert Solitaire is his opus but not fiction. Tom answered in Book Recommendations about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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