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Subject: Re: Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loat
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For an even more twisted sample of Thompson, I'd highly 
reccommend _Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail_,
Hunter's classic account of the `72 McGovern campaign.
The book opens, as I remember, with Thompson and cronies
plotting to ambush Chuck Colson and drag him down Pennsylvania
Avenue with a rope tied to his... well, you get the idea.
All strangeness aside, though, the book is well-done and
acutely intelligent. (Also killing coverage of his conversation
at the urinal with Richard Nixon.)

Early Thompson, of interest to hard-core Thompson fans, is
_Hell's Angels_, subtitled I believe the Strange and Terrible
Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. That book ends with Thompson
nearly kicked to death by Sonny Barger and friends.

Late, not so great Thompson, is _The Great Shark Hunt_, which
finds Thompson in Hawaii at monsoon time locked into booze,
sans amphetamines. 


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I don't know much about music, but I've got an ear for the high
white sound

              --Thompson, Shark Hunt