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This enormously eccentric book takes listeners on a crazy journey with renowned gonzo journalist 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. Originally published in 1983, The Curse of Lono features all of the zany, hallucinogenic wordplay for which Hunter S. Thompson became k...

This enormously eccentric book takes listeners on a crazy journey with renowned gonzo journalist 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. Originally published in 1983, The Curse of Lono features all of the zany, hallucinogenic wordplay for which Hunter S. Thompson became kno...

Am 20. Februar 2005 hat sich Hunter S. Thompson das Leben genommen. In diesem Band erweist sich Hunter S. Thompson als großer Briefeschreiber, dessen Prosa, wie The New Republic einmal schrieb, getränkt war von »einer Art Rimbaud'schen Delirium«, wie es nur »wenigen Genies« eigen ist.

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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. The autobiographical hero, a young writer dreaming of Hemingway but stuck in a dead-end newspaper job, embarks on a carousing, hell-raising journey through the tropics. Along the way, he comes between a wi...

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California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. . . The Menace is loose again." Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson's vivid account of his experiences with California's most no-torious ...

America's greatest gonzo hits the hustings in this hilarious and timely report on last year's hideous race for the White House. The inimitable Thompson takes us on his special brand of a surreal campaign swing--and relives the lowlights, oddities, screwups, and the peculiarly telling moments that define a man and his longings. Thompson is the bestselling author of Generation of Swine.

This cult classic of gonzo journalism 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.Now a major motion picture from Universal, directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro.

Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalists--Hunter S. Thompson. In letters to a Who's Who of luminaries from Norman Mailer to Charles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to Joan Baez--not to mention his mother, the NRA, and a chain of newspaper editors--Thompson vividly catches the tenor of the times in 1960s America and channels it all...

From the bestselling author of The Rum Diary and king of "Gonzo” journalism Hunter S. Thompson, comes the definitive collection of the journalist's finest work from Rolling Stone. Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone showcases the roller-coaster of a career at the magazine that was his literary home. "Buy the ticket, take the ride, ” was a favorite slogan of Hunter S. Thompson, and it pretty much defined both his work and his life. Jann S. Wenn...

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Maverick author Hunter S. Thompson introduced the world to "gonzo journalism" with this cult classic that shot back up the best-seller lists after Thompson's suicide in 2005. No book ever written has more perfectly captured the spirit of the 1960s counterculture. In Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race, Raoul Duke (Thompson) and his attorney Dr. Gonzo (inspired by a friend of Thompson) are quickly diverted to search for the American dream. The...

Die halb-biografische Geschichte des Journalisten Hunter S. Thompson (Bill Murray) und seines Anwaltes Lazlo (Peter Boyle) ... Lazlo verdient das wirklich große Geld mit Waffenschmuggel, und Hunter hat eine ... sagen wir mal sehr eigenwillige Art, an Informationen für seine Reportagen zu kommen. Hauptsache, er hat seinen Bourbon, aber auch andere Drogen sind ihm jederzeit willkommen.

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This new literary edition of GONZO is the size of a novel-the perfect companion to Hunter S. Thompson's »Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas« and the »Hell's Angel's.« This new version includes all of the same compelling photographs, quotes, and graphics, and additionally, includes a new comprehensive biography on Thompson by writer and friend Ben Corbett. GONZO presents a rare look into the life of Thompson, whose groundbreaking style of »gonzo« ...

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Hunter S. Thompson war ein Meister der Selbstinszenierung, der sich selber als literarische Figur erfand, die auf der Suche nach dem amerikanischen Traum am Abgrund entlang raste und volles Risiko ging. In seinen frühen Reportagen über eine Haifischjagd für den Playboy, über den Super-Bowl, über eine Begegnung mit Muhammad Ali, über die Watergate-Pleite Nixons und dessen Amnestierung durch Ford und über den Wahlkampf Jimmy Carters inszenierte ...

The first volume of the bestselling Gonzo Papers

Between 1959 and 1990, Thompson wrote a series of dizzying and dazzling essays, here collected in "Songs of the Doomed." Brilliant, hilarious, defiant, the pieces chart the course of American politics and culture over four decades--from the soaring highs to the hideous lows--in signature style.