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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.929
EAN: 9780345396358
ISBN: 0345396359
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: August 22, 1995
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: August 22, 1995
Sales Rank: 76754
Studio: Ballantine Books
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Rating:  - worth five bucks
If, like me, you buy this new you'll feel cheated. This ain't a book. What it is I don't know. To digress some here, when I was twelve a friend of mine got me into Jimi Hendrix (this was the late 80s, a really bad time for music). As any air guitaring Jimi-ster could tell ya there are only four Hendrix albums (plus some live performances). However, on Jimi's death were many folks out there who couldn't get enough Jimi and were willing to shell out continously for "previously unreleased studio material", ... Read More
Rating:  - More Classic Gonzo Journalism
I've read a lot of stuff about how HST hit his peak in the early seventies and then began a gradual decline, while riding on his past success. The two best arguements I could make against this criticism would be to recommend 'The Curse of Lono' published in '83 and 'Better Than Sex' which deals with the Clinton Presidential campaign in that inimatable Gonzo style. There are some excellent photographs- the one with HST and James Carville is great- as well as some of the funniest, drug-fueled prose Thompson ... Read More
Rating:  - FEAR AND LOATHING IN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 1992
Know this. The late Hunter Thompson, Doctor Gonzo, was something of a muse for me although our politics, in the final analysis, were light years apart. In the end he never found a Democratic Party presidential candidate that he, even if grudgingly, could not support. I have read everything of his that I could get my hands on. During many a troubled time when I got down on the seemingly hopeless struggle in the fight for socialism his savage humor aimed at the inanities of bourgeois politics and politicians ... Read More
Rating: - Not what I expected but still good
Lots of politic stuff.Kind of boring theme but Hunters words makes it fun and intersting.It is a good book if you are a Hunter fan.If you are not dont start go with this one.Pick up "Fear and Lothing in Las Vagas" or "Hells Angels".After you read those book this book will be lot better.
Rating: - Political Junkies, Rejoice...
I find that, no matter what book I read by the good Dr. Thompson, I can never write an appropriate review or make any sort of intelligent, logical comment on the subject. To date, I've read Hell's Angels, The Rum Diary, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas twice, along with a few of the articles in Hey Rube. Picking up Better Than Sex, I hoped to finish the book and be able to, finally, write some sort of response to the book, putting to rest this impotence of critique that seems to hang like a strange, twisted ... Read More
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