Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Hunter S. Thompson is sorely missed...


The late Hunter S. Thompson is one of my favorite writers, and it’s hard to believe that he’s been dead for five years now.
Best known as the author of “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” Thompson was flat out hilarious, and I know of no other author that was as laugh-out-loud funny.
For that reason, I’m posting tonight a list of all of Thompson’s books. Some I’ve read and some I will read before it’s all said and done. Let me know if you’ve read any of these and what you thought about them. (I've bold-faced those that I've read, so if you've got any questions about those, fire away.)
1. The Rum Diary: A Novel (1998)
2. Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Sage (1966)
3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (1971)
4. Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ‘72
5. Gonzo Papers, Vol. 1: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (1979)
6. The Curse of Lono (1983)
7. Gonzo Papers, Vol. 2: Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the ‘80s (1988)
8. Gonzo Papers, Vol. 3: Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream (1990)
9. Screw-Jack: And Other Stories (2000)
10. Gonzo Papers, Vol. 4: Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie (1994)
11. The Fear and Loathing Letters, Vol. 1: The Proud Highway: The Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman 1955-1967 (1997)
12. Mistah Leary – He Dead (1997 - only 300 copies printed)
13. The Fear and Loathing Letters, Vol. 2: Fear and Loathing in America: The Brual Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-1976 (1997)
14. Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (2003)
15. Fire in the Nuts (2004 – only 176 copies printed)
16. Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness Modern History from the Sports Desk (2004)
17. The Mutineer: Rants, Ravings and Missives from the Mountaintop 1977-2005 (2008)
18. Happy Birthday, Jack Nicholson (2005)

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