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The Rum Diary : A Novel 126 reviews
Hunter S. Thompson
Simon & Schuster, 1999
a gift
It was actually a gift. Im Jasons g/f Krystal. We share an account and he is a huge Hunter S. Thompson fan.
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The Curse of Lono 26 reviews
Hunter S. Thompson
Taschen, 2005
An unknown classic
This books is probably the least well-known of HST's books. But it was a very pleasant surprise upon reading it. It is classic Thompson, self-destructive, paranoid, and hilarious. If you take his word for it, you might never visit Hawaii yourself!
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Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century51 reviews
Hunter S. Thompson
Simon & Schuster, 2003
Significantly Better Than "Hey Rube"
This book (2003) and "Hey Rube" (2004) appear to be the last of HST's books. While "Hey Rube" contains lengthy discussions of gambling on professional football and basketball (including "March Madness"), this book is more far-ranging, containing everything from Thompson's reminiscences of his youth to his (highly negative) thoughts on George W. Bush. There's even a chapter from "Fear and Loathing ...
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Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (Modern Library)113 reviews
Hunter S. Thompson
Modern Library, 1999
Hells Angels: a hard to find modern classic.
A very high quality production run, hard-bound with illustrated dust jacket etc. of a very hard to find modern classic. Read Thompson as he was before he became a cartoon character like caricature. Succinct and insightful with the acerbic wit front and centre where it belongs. A cracking good read ! Excellent value too in this Modern Libraries edition. Why pay all-kinds of stoopid money on E-bay ...
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Fear and Loathing in America : The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist36 reviews
Hunter S. Thompson
Simon & Schuster, 2001
Crazy Energy. Laugh Out Loud Funny
Ordinarily, I wouldn't think letters would be that interesting. But Thomson's style and sense of humor are so outrageous, I find myself laughing out loud every few pages or so.
But it's much more than humor. The letters overlap the period of Martin Luther King's Assassination, Robert F. Kennedy's Assassination, the Democratic National Convention of 1968 (which he attended), etc.
I was ...
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Screwjack: A Short Story 23 reviews
Hunter S. Thompson
Simon & Schuster, 2000
"Mescalito" is the gem here
The gonzo journalist himself, also known as Raoul Duke, Thompson sees his 1991 collector copy pressing of three short pieces released into the mainstream by Simon & Schuster for 2000. Made up of a whacked-out introduction, the journalistic, stream-of-consciousness-heavy "Mescalito" from 1969, and two 90s-era short fiction stories -- "Death of A Poet" & "Screwjack" -- this slim volume is packed ...
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Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '7267 reviews
Hunter S. Thompson
Grand Central Publishing, 2006
I'm Fearful After Reading This...
This book's setting is eerily similar to the current state of affairs going on in with the 2008 Presidential Election, with the Democrats picking themselves apart while the Republicans sit back and enjoy the show. Richard Nixon is shown as the abomination that he was and HST's writing is as animated and humorous as I have ever seen it. This book surpassed my expectations and was a surprisingly ...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream413 reviews
Hunter S. Thompson
Vintage, 1998
War and Hate
This book shatters any illusion of what a hippie book should be. Not a drop of peace and love to be found here. Behind the partying and humor, this is a book of profound dissillusionment and cynicism. But Thompson does a good job at not turning it into a bitter rant: he approaches chaos with a wry grin. But if you want Flower Power hippie slogans, forget it. These are gun toting, con artist ...
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Gonzo24 reviews
Hunter S Thompson
AMMO Books, 2007
GONZO, THE PICTURE BOOK OF DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES
I got this for a gift a year ago and it is a brilliant well made book. If you a fan of Hunter S. Thompson you will love this and if you do love this book I have some other reading suggestions for you:
"Gonzo" by Jann S. Weener & Corey Seymour
That too also has a introduction by Johnny Depp
and "The Gonzo Way" (Coffee table book) by Anita Thompson (Hunter's former wife)
This is one of ...
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The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time38 reviews
Hunter S. Thompson
Simon & Schuster, 2003
The Essential Hunter Thompson
Much like Sony's "The Essential" series, which collected the greatest songs from the greatest musicians of the past century, "The Great Shark Hunt" is an anthology of the greatest of the Good Doctor's work from his peak period of the 60's and 70's.
Perhaps no other American writer captured the essence of that tumultous era better than Hunter S. Thompson. He was simultaneously of his time ...
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Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's 20 reviews
Hunter S. Thompson
Simon & Schuster, 2003
Take this in small doses
What we have here are over 100 op-ed pieces (about 2 1/2 book pages each) that ran in the San Francisco Examiner over a three-year period, December 1985 thru November 1988 and are now compiled in Gonzo Papers Volume 2 (Volume 1 was The Great Shark Hunt). These were originally meant to be read at the rate of one a week, but of course you can increase your speed on this compilation. However, I ...
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Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson
Little, Brown and Company, 2008
From Hunter S. Thompson's first piece for Rolling Stone --the story of his infamous run for sheriff of Aspen in 1970--to his last--an examination of the Kerry/Bush showdown in 2004--FEAR AND LOATHING AT ROLLING STONE presents more than 40 examples of his best work. Thompson takes us on a roller-coaster ride filled with the likes of McGovern and Nixon, Watergate and Vietnam , Ali and Clinton . And buttressing the narrative throughout are ...
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Better Than Sex (Gonzo Papers, Vol 4)31 reviews
Hunter S. Thompson
Ballantine Books, 1995
Political Junkies, Rejoice...
I find that, no matter what book I read by the good Dr. Thompson, I can never write an appropriate review or make any sort of intelligent, logical comment on the subject. To date, I've read Hell's Angels, The Rum Diary, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas twice, along with a few of the articles in Hey Rube. Picking up Better Than Sex, I hoped to finish the book and be able to, finally, write some ...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) 7 reviews
Hunter S. Thompson
HarperPerennial, 2005
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" by Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter Thompson practiced total immersion journalism. This form of reporting is called gonzo journalism.
Hunter Thompson drove to Las Vegas to report on a motorcycle race and ended up writing a story about himself writing a story about a motorcycle race. If he would have written a ...
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The Boys on the Bus11 reviews
Timothy Crouse
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003
Classic reveals the press as they were
This brilliantly conceived and executed book pulled back the curtain on the culture of covering presidential campaigns much like Theodore White's The Making of the President before it. Smooth and seemless prose is marred only slightly by the contrived tactic of attempting one line physical descriptions of principals "a bull of a man," "a lovely and smart woman," etc.
Structurally, the book ...
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Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness Modern History from the ...36 reviews
Hunter S. Thompson
Simon & Schuster, 2005
Ouch
I'm heartbroken. I admit it. I'm not a year around sports nut. I don't watch games all the time. I don't even get ESPN. And I've never allowed myself to get sucked into the uber-geeky world of fantasy leagues. But the Bears are special for me. And if you let yourself care enough, you'll get hurt. It's unavoidable. You can't experience the thrills without being vulnerable to the pain. ...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories (Modern Library)50 reviews
Hunter S. Thompson
Modern Library, 1998
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" by Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter Thompson practiced total immersion journalism. This form of reporting is called gonzo journalism.
Hunter Thompson drove to Las Vegas to report on a motorcycle race and ended up writing a story about himself writing a story about a motorcycle race. If he would have written a ...
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The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-196748 reviews
Hunter S. Thompson, Douglas Brinkley
Ballantine Books, 1998
Indispensable
As a big fan of Mr Thompson for many years, I became very excited when I heard about this volume. And I was not disapointed when I read it. It is as good as any book he himself has ever written. Although not about any subject in particular, the book tells the story of Hunter S Thompson more interestingly than any biography I've ever read anywhere else. It is also far better than his autobiography ...
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Songs of the Doomed : More Notes on the Death of the American Dream2 reviews
Hunter S. Thompson
Simon & Schuster, 2002
Excellent Sampler
This is an excellent introduction to the range of Thompson's writings though the early 1990's. It includes samples of his two early novels (Prince Jellyfish, The Rum Diary) and articles and excerpts from his later journalism and fiction ("Let The Trials Begin" is worth the price of the book).No duplication of material fromThe Great Shark Hunt, his earlier collection. An excellent audio version ...
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The Revolt of the Cockroach People7 reviews
Oscar Zeta Acosta
Vintage, 1989
First Impressions
This is the most realistic book I have ever seen about Mexican American hippies in Aztlan, the Chicanos of the 1960's neo-freedom movements. It will surely become a collector's item worth saving in this era of gung-ho Americanism which does not know the kind of objectivity Acosta displays with regard to how we think and why we believe as we do. Hunter S. Thompson described the author better than ...
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