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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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Hunter S. Thompson
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is a well known book by self-dubbed 'gonzo journalist', Hunter S. Thompson. This drug laden tale is a common part of many high school curriculum and was made into a motion picture starring Johnny Depp and Benecio del Torro in 1998.
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The Rum Diary
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Hunter S. Thompson
Begun in 1959 by a then-twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. Exuberant and mad, youthful and energetic, The Rum Diary is an outrageous, drunken romp in the spirit of Thompson's bestselling Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Hell's...
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Hell's Angels
A Strange and Terrible Saga
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Hunter S. Thompson
The author's harrowing and critically acclaimed first book chronicles his year riding with the Hell's Angels and other motorcycle gangs, an "experiment" that ended when he was beaten nearly to death by a group of Angels.
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Fear and Loathing
On the Campaign Trail '72
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Hunter S. Thompson
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Ralph Steadman
With the same drug-addled alacrity and jaundiced wit that made Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas a hilarious hit, Hunter S. Thompson turns his savage eye and gonzo heart to the repellent and seductive race for President.He deconstructs the 1972 campaigns of idealist George McGovern and political hack Richard Nixon, ending up with a political vision that is eerily prophetic.A classic!
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Gonzo Papers
: Book 1
The Great Shark Hunt
Strange Tales from a Strange Time
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Hunter S. Thompson
Originally published in 1979, the first volume of the bestselling "Gonzo Papers" is now back in print. The Great Shark Hunt is Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's largest and, arguably, most important work, covering Nixon to napalm, Las Vegas to Watergate, Carter to cocaine. These essays offer brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in signature Thompson style. Ranging in date from the National Observer days to the...
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Kingdom of Fear
Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
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Hunter S. Thompson
Brilliant, provocative, outrageous, and brazen, Hunter S. Thompson's infamous rule breaking -- in his journalism, in his life, and of the law -- changed the shape of American letters and the face of American icons. Kingdom of Fear traces the course of Thompson's life as a rebel -- from a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid flouting all authority to a convention-defying journalist who came to personify a wild fusion of...
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The Joke's Over: Bruised Memories: Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson and Me
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Ralph Steadman
In the spring of 1970, artist Ralph Steadman went to America in search of work and found more than he bargained for. At the Kentucky Derby he met a former associate of the Hell’s Angels, one Hunter S. Thompson. Their working relationship resulted in the now-legendary Gonzo Journalism. The Joke’s Over tells of a remarkable collaboration that documented the turbulent years of the civil rights movement, the...
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Gonzo Papers
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Generation of Swine
Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s
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Hunter S. Thompson
A running tally of the folly of the 80's, the decade known for men of "huge brains, small necks, weak muscles and fat wallets.." - NYT Book Review From the Trade Paperback edition.
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The Gonzo Letters
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Fear and Loathing in America
The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist
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Hunter S. Thompson
Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of his private correspondence, the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway. When that first book of letters appeared in 1997, Time pronounced it "deliriously entertaining"; Rolling Stone called it "brilliant beyond description"; and The New York Times celebrated its "wicked humor and bracing...
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The Proud Highway
Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
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Hunter S. Thompson
Before there was Gonzo, there was just plain Hunter -- a precocious, earnest, and occasionally troublesome honor student in Louisville, Kentucky. Before there was Doctor Thompson, there was Airman Thompson -- the military's answer to Grantland Rice, protecting America by covering sports for his Florida base's newspaper. Before there was Fear and Loathing,there was Dow Jones -- that is, Thompson's early reportage...
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Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson
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Paul Perry
SPECIAL: Autographed by the author! Fear and Loathing creates a sharp and savvy profile of one of the most provocative voices and distinctive personalities of our time. To Hunter S. Thompson, being a Gonzo journalist means doing whatever it takes to get to the truth; everything from dropping acid with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters in the 60s, to participating in wild orgies and getting his nose broken...
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A Night in the Lonesome October
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Roger Zelazny
Jack the Ripper's faithful watchdog, Snuff, relates the shady tendencies of his master, as well as those of a vampire, witch, demented clergyman, and others who band together and are also accompanied by animal familiars. Reprint. K. PW.
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When The Going Gets Weird : The Twisted Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson : A Very Unauthorized Biography
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Peter O. Whitmer
Definitive biography of Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and personality. Sold out in hard and trade paperback by Disney / Hyperion. Eight pages of illustrations. New Prologue, ISBN, and copy of Stipulation preventing me from delivering flowers to Hunter's Mother.
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The Curse of Lono
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Hunter S. Thompson
The Curse of Lono is to Hawaii what Fear and Loathing was to Las Vegas: the crazy tales of a journalist’s "coverage" of a news event that ends up being a wild ride to the dark side of Americana.
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The Gonzo Papers Anthology
Hunter S. Thompson was the creator of a new kind of journalism and invented a new style of writing. "Gonzo" was a wild, often drug- and drink-fuelled adventure, in which Thompson examined the politics, people, and values of his times. In the three great collections of "Gonzo" writings, "The Great Shark Hunt", "Generation of Swine", and "Songs of the Doomed" he dissected the 60s, 70s, and 80s with violence, wit,...
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