A narrative account of the mystic sixties usually isn't my idea of exciting bedside reading or a harrowing page turner; however, Gary Lachman's Turn Off Your Mind manages to surprise you in more ways than one.

First let me start with the negative. Lachman has a tendency of drowning his paragraphs with sentences. Long and wordy, sometimes, you as the reader, feel like you're getting lost in the shuffle of facts and ...