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BOOK REVIEWS
‘Generation of Swine’
Reviewed by HERBERT MITGANG
“[A] collection of his pieces that . . . combine name-calling, bomb-throwing and sardonic humor. He’s a little more strident this time out, but if you happen to share his public enemies, Thompson’s
your man.”
‘The Great Shark Hunt’
Reviewed by JOHN LEONARD
“He became, in the late 1960’s, our point guard, our official crazy, patrolling the edge. He reported back that the paranoids were right, and they were. . . . He is also, as if this needs to
be said, hilarious.”
‘Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72’
Reviewed by TOM SELIGSON
“[T]he best account yet published of what it feels like to be out there in the middle of the American political process. . . . Thompson is defiantly subjective.”
‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’
Reviewed by CRAWFORD WOODS
“[B]y far the best book yet written on the decade of dope . . . a desperate and important book, a wired nightmare, the funniest piece of American prose since ‘Naked Lunch.'”
BOOK EXCERPT
‘The Rum Diary’
By HUNTER S. THOMPSON
“On top of my slovenly appearance, I stank of ale. It hung in my stomach like a lump of rancid milk. I tried not to breathe on anyone . . .”
‘The Rum Diary’
By HUNTER S. THOMPSON
“On top of my slovenly appearance, I stank of ale. It hung in my stomach like a lump of rancid milk. I tried not to breathe on anyone . . .”
AN INTERVIEW
On the Trail Again
By ESTHER B. FEIN
Thompson says he didn’t want to cover the 1992 election campaign, “But it crept into my life like kudzu vine. Just took over.”
On the Trail Again
By ESTHER B. FEIN
Thompson says he didn’t want to cover the 1992 election campaign, “But it crept into my life like kudzu vine. Just took over.”
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