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Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Unabridged)
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Hunter S. Thompson The Rum Diary
The Rum Diary was begun in 1959 by a then-22-year-old Hunter S. Thompson....
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Taschen Curse of Lono
Pages: 200, Paperback, Taschen
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Bloomsbury The Rum Diary
Pages: 224, Paperback, Bloomsbury
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Touchstone Hunter: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson
Pages: 352, Paperback, Touchstone
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Plexus Publishing Ltd Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson
Pages: 276, Paperback, Plexus Publishing Ltd
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Flamingo Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Pages: 480, Paperback, Flamingo
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Penguin Books Ltd Hell's Angels (Penguin Modern Classics)
Pages: 288, Paperback, Penguin Books Ltd
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Picador Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream (Picador Books)
Pages: 320, Paperback, Picador
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Penguin Books Ltd Hell's Angels (Essential.penguin S.)
Pages: 336, Paperback, Penguin Books Ltd
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Bloomsbury The Proud Highway: Fear and Loathing Letters: 1955-67, Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman Vol 1 (The Fear & Loathing Letters)
<I>The Proud Highway</I> is the first in an anticipated three- volume collection of the letters of Hunter S. Thompson. It includes letters spanning a 12-year period, during which time Thompson survived his first incarceration, graduated from high school, was discharged from the Air Force, drank to excess, wrote prolifically in obscurity and finally achieved notoriety with the publication of <I>Hell's Angels</I>, his first successful book. The letters are frantic and comedic, self- righteous and intensely cynical. He writes to friends and family, famous authors he admired and even the president of the United States. As Thompson travels from New York City to Puerto Rico, then on to South America and Northern California, his letters trace the development and refinement of his talent. This collection of Thompson's early writings paints a portrait of the man before words like Gonzo, Doctor and fear and loathing were inextricably linked to his name, revealing the unrestrained ego that serves as the foundation for the talent of this popular and important American writer.
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Bloomsbury Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-1976
Louisville's finest returns with another huge batch of his private correspondence, hammered out from Woody Creek on his typewriter with the frenzied rat-tat-tat report of shots from the hip. Covering the Wonder Years, from the election of Nixon (which first fired his invective), Vietnam, the 1972 campaign, publication of the instantly notorious <I>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas</I>, to Watergate, the walking pharmacy reveals himself to be a surprisingly dedicated librarian, having dutifully filed carbons of all his correspondence for such an eventuality. By 1968, the success of <I>Hell's Angels</I> had seen his stock, if not his income, rise, and on the magazine Scanlan Monthly was born Gonzo journalism, dismissing objectivity for furious spontaneity fired from both barrels. However, the hidden image on the Polaroid was a bleary-eyed moralist in deadly earnest, uncontrollably seized by the free-associative rantings of a Tourette's sufferer.<p>The good doctor sees himself, the sub-title suggests, as an outlaw journalist. He certainly wants to resettle his country, and in many ways these 750 pages read as a Dear John from an estranged and bitterly spurned lover, the offending suitor being the American Dream. It's no coincidence that Gatsby, that symbol of its empty heart, is a recurrent reference. In fact, a book about the Death of the Dream was the white elephant that stalked these years, the Big Work that never happened. At least this volume contains much invention, not least of the self, and, if not always sober, then certainly incisive thinking, whether he's addressing fellow Gonzoid Ralph Steadman, Tom Wolfe or the Alaska Sleeping Bag Company. He claims his business is defusing bombs and disarming landmines, a disingenuous reversal of how he often seems to be acting. An iconic reputation became his ball and chain, and he grew into a love/hate figure, particularly to himself, resembling an outrageous uncle at a family party. He was to become worshipped beyond his means, but for this period, while he huffed and puffed to blow Nixon's White House down, he remained a legend in his own overblown inkdom, something these letters vividly capture. --<I>David Vincent</I>
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Penguin Books Ltd Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
Pages: 384, Paperback, Penguin Books Ltd
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Bloomsbury Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-1976
Louisville's finest returns with another huge batch of his private correspondence, hammered out from Woody Creek on his typewriter with the frenzied rat-tat-tat report of shots from the hip. Covering the Wonder Years, from the election of Nixon (which first fired his invective), Vietnam, the 1972 campaign, publication of the instantly notorious <I>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas</I>, to Watergate, the walking pharmacy reveals himself to be a surprisingly dedicated librarian, having dutifully filed carbons of all his correspondence for such an eventuality. By 1968, the success of <I>Hell's Angels</I> had seen his stock, if not his income, rise, and on the magazine Scanlan Monthly was born Gonzo journalism, dismissing objectivity for furious spontaneity fired from both barrels. However, the hidden image on the Polaroid was a bleary-eyed moralist in deadly earnest, uncontrollably seized by the free-associative rantings of a Tourette's sufferer.<p>The good doctor sees himself, the sub-title suggests, as an outlaw journalist. He certainly wants to resettle his country, and in many ways these 750 pages read as a Dear John from an estranged and bitterly spurned lover, the offending suitor being the American Dream. It's no coincidence that Gatsby, that symbol of its empty heart, is a recurrent reference. In fact, a book about the Death of the Dream was the white elephant that stalked these years, the Big Work that never happened. At least this volume contains much invention, not least of the self, and, if not always sober, then certainly incisive thinking, whether he's addressing fellow Gonzoid Ralph Steadman, Tom Wolfe or the Alaska Sleeping Bag Company. He claims his business is defusing bombs and disarming landmines, a disingenuous reversal of how he often seems to be acting. An iconic reputation became his ball and chain, and he grew into a love/hate figure, particularly to himself, resembling an outrageous uncle at a family party. He was to become worshipped beyond his means, but for this period, while he huffed and puffed to blow Nixon's White House down, he remained a legend in his own overblown inkdom, something these letters vividly capture. --<I>David Vincent</I>
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HarperPerennial Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics S.)
Pages: 224, Paperback, HarperPerennial
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HarperPerennial Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 (Harper Perennial Modern Classics S.)
Pages: 507, Paperback, HarperPerennial
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Simon & Schuster Hey Rube
Pages: 246, Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Simon & Schuster The Mutineer: Rants, Ravings, and Missives from the Mountaintop 1977-2005
Pages: 752, Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Picador Generation of Swine (Picador Books)
Pages: 304, Paperback, Picador
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Simon & Schuster Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness
Pages: 246, Paperback, Simon & Schuster
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Bloomsbury The Proud Highway: Fear and Loathing Letters: 1955-67, Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman v. 1 (The Fear & Loathing Letters)
<I>The Proud Highway</I> is the first in an anticipated three- volume collection of the letters of Hunter S. Thompson. It includes letters spanning a 12-year period, during which time Thompson survived his first incarceration, graduated from high school, was discharged from the Air Force, drank to excess, wrote prolifically in obscurity and finally achieved notoriety with the publication of <I>Hell's Angels</I>, his first successful book. The letters are frantic and comedic, self- righteous and intensely cynical. He writes to friends and family, famous authors he admired and even the president of the United States. As Thompson travels from New York City to Puerto Rico, then on to South America and Northern California, his letters trace the development and refinement of his talent. This collection of Thompson's early writings paints a portrait of the man before words like Gonzo, Doctor and fear and loathing were inextricably linked to his name, revealing the unrestrained ego that serves as the foundation for the talent of this popular and important American writer.
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Bloomsbury The Rum Diary
Pages: 213, Paperback, Bloomsbury
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Wenner Books Gonzo: An Oral History
Pages: 432, Hardcover, Wenner Books
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