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Hunter S Thompson
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The Rum Diary
Автор: Hunter S Thompson Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2004 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20092006-05-28
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Paul Kemp has moved from New York to the steamy heat of Puerto Rico to work at the Daily News. He starts hanging out at Al's Backyard, a local den selling booze and hamburgers to vagrant journalists who are mostly crazy drunks on the verge of quitting. Then he meets Yeamon, whose delectable girlfriend has Kemp stewing in his own lust. But the idle tension that builds up in places where men sweat twenty-four hours a day is reaching a violent breaking point.
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Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream
Автор: Hunter S. Thompson Жанр: Picador Издательство: Picador Год: 2010 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20132015-08-13
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'I was thinking; my mind was running at top speed, scanning and sorting my options. They ranged all the way from Dumb and Dangerous to Crazy, Evil, and utterly wrong from the start... stand back. We are on the brink. Yes. I have an idea.' When Hunter S. Thompson has an idea, you just have to listen and he shares many of his unique ideas in this collection of journalism, social commentary, short fiction and autobiography. Divided into sections by decade, Songs of the Doomed begins with a furious condemnation of the US justice system and ends with the author's own version of the events that led to his extraordinary court case. Stopping off at the infamous summit conference in Elko, Illinois; Saigon in 1975 (the war zone Thompson was fired while en route to); and Palm Beach in the eighties for the Pulitzer divorce, here in true Gonzo fashion is the long strange trip from Kennedy to Nixon to Quayle. 'Mr Thompson's best work of the past three decades' New York Times Book Review 'There are many hideously funny stories in this collection. Thompson writing on mescalin, staying on for the fall of Saigon, explaining what it must be like to be a multimillionaire in Palm Beach...' Independent on Sunday 'Dead funny... That our guru has made it this far merits drinks and dynamite all round at the Woody Creek Road and Gun Club (and spiritually affiliated North London branches). That he is still alive, and at large, defies medical and legal beliefs' Andy Kershaw, Literary Review 'Proves that you can't keep the old bastard quiet... a superb offering' City Limits.
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Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s
Автор: Hunter S. Thompson Жанр: Picador Издательство: Picador Год: 2010 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20122013-09-14
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'Most smart people tend to feel queasy when the conversation turns to things like 'certain death' and 'total failure' and the idea of 'a doomed generation'. But not me. I am comfortable with these themes'. Hunter S. Thompson, celebrated author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, has been writing a weekly column for the San Francisco Examiner for the last two years. Those columns are collected here to offer a chronicle of the adventures of a Generation of Swine. The incomparable 'Dr Gonzo' has journeyed no small distance in search of intelligent life and reports back, instead, on the demented state of current events. He keeps tabs on the 1998 presidential race, quotes from the Bible (reference books in hotel rooms are supplied exclusively by the Gideons) and asks why the President appears to be a hundred and twenty-eight years old. 'He is working from a dementia that no one in his right mind would want to share. It is the dementia, however, that makes Thompson great' — Playboy. 'His hallucinated vision strikes one as having been, after all, the sanest' — Nelson Algren.
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Rum Diary: Film tie-in edition
Автор: Hunter S.Thompson Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20142012-12-30
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Paul Kemp has moved from New York to the steamy heat of Puerto Rico to work at the Daily News. He starts hanging out at Al's Backyard, a local den selling booze and hamburgers to vagrant journalists who are mostly crazy drunks on the verge of quitting. Then he meets Yeamon, whose delectable girlfriend has Kemp stewing in his own lust. But the idle tension that builds up in places where men sweat twenty-four hours a day is reaching a violent breaking point.
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Better Than Sex
Автор: Hunter S. Thompson Жанр: Picador Издательство: Picador Год: 2010 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20122012-10-07
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'Hunter S. Thompson is to drug-addled, stream-of-consciousness, psycho-political black humor what Forrest Gump is to idiot savants' Philadelphia Inquirer Since his blazing 1972 opus, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hunter S. Thompson has reported the election story in his truly inimitable, just-short-of-libel style. In Better than Sex, Thompson hits the dusty trail again without leaving home yet manages to deliver a mind-bending view of the 1992 presidential campaign, in all of its horror, sacrifice, lust, and dubious glory. Complete with faxes sent to and received by candidate Clinton's top aides, and 100 per cent pure gonzo screeds on Richard Nixon, George Bush, and Oliver North, here is the most true-blue campaign tell-all ever penned by man or beast. '[Thompson] delivers yet another of his trademark cocktail mixes of unbelievable tales and dark observations... Packed with egocentric anecdotes, musings and reprints of memos, faxes and scrawled handwritten notes' Los Angeles Daily News.
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Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness
Автор: Hunter S. Thompson Жанр: Picador Издательство: Picador Год: 2010 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20122012-10-07
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For decades, Hunter S. Thompson galvanized American journalism with his acerbic wit, radical ideas, and gonzo tactics. He continued his reign as 'the Unabomber of contemporary letters' («Time») with «Hey Rube». Fear, greed, and action abound in this hilarious, thought-provoking compilation as Thompson doles out searing indictments and uproarious rants while providing brilliant commentary on politics, sex, and sports — at times all in the same column. Filled with critics' favorites, as well as never-before-published columns, «Hey Rube» follows Thompson through the beginning of the new century. «Hey Rube» gives us a look at the gonzo journalist in his most organic form — unbridled, astute, and irreverent. 'Thompson is a genuinely unique figure in American journalism, a superb comic writer and a ferociously outspoken social and political critic' — «Washington Post». 'Punctuated by moments of brilliant iconoclasm, as well as profound questions for our age' — «San Francisco Chronicle».
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Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child
Автор: Hunter S. Thompson Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20122012-05-24
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'Hot damn! Let us rumble, keep going and don't slow down... let's have a little fun...' In his much-anticipated memoir, Hunter S. Thompson looks back on a long and productive life. It is a story of crazed road trips fueled by bourbon and black acid, of insane judges and giant porcupines, of girls, guns, explosives and, of course, bikes. He also takes on his dissolute youth in Louisville; his adventures in pornography; campaigning for local office in Aspen; and what it's like to accidentally be accused of trying to kill Jack Nicholson. Alongside this 'depraved and terrifying adventure', Hunter S. Thompson exposes the darkness at the heart of America today: a time when the 'goofy child President' and the New Dumb have taken control, and the nation thralls to Bush's War on Terror, War on Evil, War on Iraq, and even War on Fat... a time when fear and loathing are greater than ever.
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Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist
Автор: Hunter S. Thompson Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2001 Страниц: 784 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20092004-04-15
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Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of his private correspondence, the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway. When that first book of letters appeared in 1997, Time pronounced it «deliriously entertaining»; Rolling Stone called it «brilliant beyond description»; and The New York Times celebrated its «wicked humor and bracing political conviction». Spanning the years between 1968 and 1976, these never-before-published letters show Thompson building his legend: running for sheriff in Aspen, Colorado; creating the seminal road book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; twisting political reporting to new heights for Rolling Stone; and making sense of it all in the landmark Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. To read Thompson's dispatches from these years — addressed to the author's friends, enemies, editors, and creditors, and such notables as Jimmy Carter, Tom Wolfe, and Kurt Vonnegut — is to read a raw, revolutionary eyewitness account of one of the most exciting and pivotal eras in American history.
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Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's
Автор: Hunter S. Thompson Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2003 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20082006-02-26
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Generation of Swine, the second volume of the legendary Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's bestselling «Gonzo Papers», was first published in 1988 and is now back in print. Here, against a backdrop of late-night tattoo sessions and soldier-of-fortune trade shows, Dr. Thompson is at his apocalyptic best — covering emblematic events such as the 1987-88 presidential campaign, with Vice President George Bush, Sr., fighting for his life against Republican competitors like Alexander Haig, Pat Buchanan, and Pat Robertson; detailing the GOP's obsession with drugs and drug abuse; while at the same time capturing momentous social phenomena as they occurred, like the rise of cable, satellite TV, and CNN — 24 hours of mainline news. Showcasing his inimitable talent for social and political analysis, Generation of Swine is vintage Thompson — prescient, incisive, and enduring.
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The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from Strange Time
Автор: Hunter S. Thompson Жанр: Picador Издательство: Picador Год: 1980 Страниц: 640 Дата загрузки: 27 августа 20091981-06-28
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‘Well... yes, and here we go again’ Dr Hunter S. Thompson Indeed we do. Here, in one chunky volume, is the best of Gonzo. From Private Thompson in trouble with the Air Force, to the devastating portrait of the ageing Muhammad Ali. Taking in the Kentucky Derby, Freak Power in the Rockies, Nixon in ’68, McGovern in ’72, Fear and Loathing at the Watergate, Jimmy Carter and the Great Leap of Faith – and much more. An indispensable compendium of decadence, depravity and horse-sense.
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Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness
Автор: Hunter S. Thompson Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2005 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20102009-03-24
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Insightful, incendiary, outrageously brilliant, such was the man who galvanized American journalism with his radical ideas and gonzo tactics. For over half a century, Hunter S. Thompson devastated his readers with his acerbic wit and uncanny grasp of politics and history. His reign as «The Unabomber of contemporary letters» (Time) is more legendary than ever with Hey Rube. Fear, greed, and action abound in this hilarious, thought-provoking compilation as Thompson doles out searing indictments and uproarious rants while providing commentary on politics, sex, and sports — at times all in the same column. With an enlightening foreword by ESPN executive editor John Walsh, critics' favorites, and never-before-published columns, Hey Rube follows Thompson through the beginning of the new century, revealing his queasiness over the 2000 election («rigged and fixed from the start»); his take on professional sports (to improve Major League Baseball «eliminate the pitcher»); and his myriad controversial opinions and brutally honest observations on issues plaguing America — including the Bush administration and the inequities within the American judicial system. Hey Rube gives us a lasting look at the gonzo journalist in his most organic form — unbridled, astute, and irreverent.
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Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
Автор: Hunter S. Thompson Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2003 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20092004-12-30
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Brilliant, provocative, outrageous, and brazen, Hunter S. Thompson's infamous rule breaking — in his journalism, in his life, and of the law — changed the shape of American letters and the face of American icons. Kingdom of Fear traces the course of Thompson's life as a rebel — from a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid flouting all authority to a convention-defying journalist who came to personify a wild fusion of fact, fiction, and mind-altering substances. Call it the evolution of an outlaw. Here are the formative experiences that comprise Thompson's legendary trajectory alongside the weird and the ugly. Whether detailing his exploits as a foreign correspondent in Rio, his job as night manager of the notorious O'Farrell Theatre in San Francisco, his epic run for sheriff of Aspen on the Freak Power ticket, or the sensational legal maneuvering that led to his full acquittal in the famous 99 Days trial, Thompson is at the peak of his narrative powers in Kingdom of Fear. And this boisterous, blistering ride illuminates as never before the professional and ideological risk taking of a literary genius and transgressive icon.
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Hell's Angels
Автор: Hunter S. Thompson Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2003 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 февраля 20092006-04-22
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With ‘long hair in the wind, beards and bandanas flapping, earrings, chain whips … and Harleys flashing chrome’, the Hell’s Angels erupted into 1960s America, paralysing whole towns with fear. Determined to discover the truth behind the terrifying reputation of these marauding biker gangs, Hunter S. Thompson spent a year on the road with the Angels, documenting his hair-raising experiences with Charger Charley, Big Frank, Little Jesus and the Gimp. Hell’s Angels was the result: a masterpiece of underground reportage whose freewheeling, impressionistic style created the legend of Gonzo journalism, and made Thompson’s name as the wild man of American writing.
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Ancient Gonzo Wisdom
Автор: Hunter S. Thompson Жанр: Picador Издательство: Picador Год: 2010 Страниц: 412 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20152011-12-20
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Bristling with inspired observations and wild anecdotes, this collection offers unique insight into the voice and mind of the inimitable Hunter S. Thompson, as recorded over the decades in the pages of Playboy, the Paris Review, Esquire, in various lectures, and in television appearances, many in print for the first time. Fearless and unsparing, the interviews detail some of the most storied episodes of Thompson's life: his savage beating at the hands of the Hell's Angels, his talking football with Nixon on the 1972 Campaign Trail ('the only time in twenty years of listening to the treacherous bastard that I knew he wasn't lying'); his razor-sharp insight into the Bush-Cheney administration, his unlikely run for Sheriff of Aspen, and his successful public battle, during the last years of his life, to free an innocent woman from prison. In addition, Hunter Thompson's passionate tirades about journalism, culture, drugs, guns, and the law showcase his singular voice at its fiercest. Complete with an exclusive introduction by author, journalist, and cultural critic Christopher Hitchens, Ancient Gonzo Wisdom genuinely embraces the brilliance of Hunter S. Thompson — his life, his voice, and his legacy — to provide an enduring portrait of the great gonzo journalist. 'Four years after his death, the rapid-fire wit and venom of Thompson's writing is undiminished. Ancient Gonzo Wisdom features classic HST interviews' — GQ.
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The Rum Diary
Автор: Hunter S. Thompson Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 1999 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20092001-07-28
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Based on Thompson's own experiences as a reporter in Puerto Rico in the late '50s and early '60s, this «long-lost coming-of-age novel» («San Francisco Chronicle») tells a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in a Caribbean boom town.
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