The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
ISBN:
9780330510776
Publish date: May 7th 2010
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Pages no: 624
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Humanities,
Language,
Literature,
American,
Journalism,
Politics
Series: The Gonzo Papers (#1)
This book of Hunter S. Thompson essays and articles covers most of his early career, especially the time period when he was writing Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hell's Angels and the Watergate scandal. Many of these articles were incorporated into those other books, but a good portion of it hasn...
My favorite HST piece is in this book: his platform for sheriff of Aspen in 1970 on the Freak Power ticket.
By the time I finished college I wasn't as much of a Thompson fan as I had been going in. When I was a teen he was fresh, and ballsy, and exciting. A decade later he was just kind of strange and unsettling. I think this is the last book of his I ever read.Library copy.
28 years ago
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