Hunter Thompson

Anyone read anything past fear and loathing? Quite the writer. Opened me up to Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Greene.

Read The Rum Diary a couple years back, don't remember much.  But I'm reading For Whom the Bell Tolls right now, and it's great.  I'm going to go back and re-read Rum Diary after I'm done.

I'm perusing The Great Shark Hunt. Favorite passage so far:

"But in defeat, Oscar had managed to create an instant political base for himself in the vast Chicano barrio of East Los Angeles- where even the most conservative of the old-line 'Mexican-Americans" were suddenly calling themselves "Chicanos" and getting their first taste of tear gas at "La Raza" demonstrations, which Oscar was quickly learning to use as a fire and brimstone forum to feature himself as the main spokesman for a mushrooming "Brown Power" movement that the LAPD called more dangerous than the Black Panthers.
Which was probably true, at the time- but in retrospect it sounds a bit different than it did back in 1969 when the sheriff was sending out fifteen or twenty helicopter sorties a night to scan the rooftops and backyards of the barrio with huge sweeping searchlights that drove Oscar and his people into fits of blind rage every time they got nailed in a pool of blazing white light with a joint in one hand and a machete in the other."

The Great Shark Hunt
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail
Curse of Lonos
Kingdom of Fear
Rum Diary

I think that's all off the top of my head.

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*All I've read, is what I meant. Thompson is a fantastic writer. He's known for Vegas, but his journalistic stuff (the majority of his work) is awesome.

No one's read his book on the Hell's Angels?  That's a little sad.

read Hells Angels, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, Great Shark Hunt: Gonzo Papers volume 1 (good for his pre-gonzo serious pieces and first gonzo piece The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved), Curse of Lono, Rum Diary

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