The late Cleo Odzer [http://www.echo.net/~cleo/] sounded a bit reluctant when I used my early access to email and asked for a review copy of her book. But she liked the review [http://www.echo.net/~cleo/greview.html] enough to put it out on her Echo.Net site.
In fact, I remember that she, post-review, sounded surprised that I could write in passable English! Later, she returned to Goa and passed away here. A stray posting on the Net led many of her friends wanting to know how she died, when, and so on. Incidentally, she has a fan following of sorts, as reflected in this [ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cleo_Odzer] mailing list which reflects on her life! In hindsight, I might have viewed her book differently had I written the review now. Apparently, a number of old timers from the hippy community that was already established around Anjuna (and earlier Calangute-Baga) before she came here were quite upset by her writings. As Augusto says, whatever its flaws, it gives an insight into the hippy world in one of the hippy capitals (with Ibiza-Spain, Kathmandu-Nepal, and Bali-Indonesia) of those times. FN 2009/6/6 augusto pinto <[email protected]> > I happen to be reading Goa Freak, by Cleo Odzer, the cult account of > the Hippies who in the 1970s did little else other than smoke exotic > weed, snort coke, do smack, chew opium and other > crazy things like having sex quite indiscriminately. > > Odzer's brilliant narrative style gives a penetrating insight into > the world of the people who first made Goa into a modern tourist > destination, although they would have hated to be called tourists. > > Highly recommended - except that laying hands on a copy is rather > difficult. It was published by The Goa Adventure Co Pvt. Ltd, > Calangute in 1995. -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/fn M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 http://fredericknoronha.multiply.com/ http://goa1556.goa-india.org "Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry." - Gloria Steinem
