Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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Author: Hunter S. Thompson

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken…..Read More

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Paul Kemp has moved from New York to the steamy heat of Puerto Rico to work at the Daily News. He starts hanging out at Al's Backyard, a local den… Continue Reading Posted in: Alcoholism, Livres Aì€ Clef, Romans Aì Clef

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

I looked around and people's faces were distorted...lights were flashing everywhere...the screen at the end of the room had three or four different films on it at once, and the… Continue Reading Posted in: Hippie Communities, Tom, United States Social Life And Customs, Wolfe

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72

The best, the fastest, the hippest and the most unorthodox account ever published of the US presidential electoral process in all its madness and corruption. In 1972 Hunter S. Thompson,… Continue Reading Posted in: Elections, History, Political Campaigns

The Great Shark Hunt

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The Curse of Lono

A wild ride to the dark side of Americana The Curse of Lono is to Hawaii what Fear and Loathing was to Las Vegas: the crazy tales of a journalist's… Continue Reading Posted in: Biography, Description And Travel, United States

The Far Side Gallery

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Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson

Few American lives are stranger, more action-packed, or wilder than that of Hunter S. Thompson. Born a rebel in Louisville, Kentucky, Thompson spent a lifetime channeling his energy and insight… Continue Reading Posted in: Biography, Rich & Famous Biographies, Suicide, United States

Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie Trapped Like a Rat in MR Bill’s

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American Psycho

Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to head-on collision with America's greatest… Continue Reading Posted in: Psychological Fiction, Satire, United States

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Hunter S. Thompson, celebrated author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, has been writing a weekly column for the San Francisco Examiner for the last two years. Those columns… Continue Reading Posted in: 1981, Biographies of Journalists, Essays, History, Journeys, Politics And Government

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

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Zeitoun

The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina. Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting… Continue Reading Posted in: 2005, Atmospheric Sciences, Bibliography, Fiction, Hurricane Katrina, Natural Disasters

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A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the N. American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of… Continue Reading Posted in: 1900, Bibliography, United States

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long… Continue Reading Posted in: Author Biographies, Biography, Journalists, Social History, Western U.S. Biographies

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