There's strange power in words, how Hunter seems more trustworthy than any other piece of longform work out there.

Published 2003

-pg 515"Oscar was one of God's own prototypes-- a high-powered mutant of some kind who was never even considered for mass production. Hunter Thompson's view of the world always contained a combination of moral outrage, amazement and sardonic humor but his eloquence and integrity made each essay a treasure.

I thought some of his usual outrageousness was out of place and read like he was trying to hard to be crazy.

He remains one of the most unique voices of the late twentieth century, bringing anarchy into the news and substance abuse lit to the masses.

While this book is a collection of other writings, it is like a best of Hunter S Thompson. Be the first to ask a question about The Great Shark Hunt Given the man's talent for spectacle, pomposity and grand acts of destruction, it's easy for people to forget that before he was a legend, Hunter S. Thompson was a talented and capable journalist- one of those rare souls who was perfectly able to capture the flavor of the 60s zeitgeist, both its rapturous highs and its naive faith that a better world could simply be visualized into existence. "If I followed my better instincts right now, I would put this typewriter in the Volvo and drive to the home of the nearest politician -- any politician -- and hurl the goddamn machine through his front window ... flush the bugger out with an act of lunatic violence then soak him down with mace and run him naked down Main Street in Aspen with a bell around his neck and black lumps all over his body from the jolts of a high powered "Ball Buster" cattle prod.Hunter S. Thompson defines everything good about journalism, despite extreme subjectivity, rampant decadence and pure mania.

I think it's more someone trying to milk it for all it's worth, actually. "If I followed my better instincts right now, I would put this typewriter in the Volvo and drive to the home of the nearest politician -- any politician -- and hurl the goddamn machine through his front window ... flush the bugger out with an act of lunatic violence then soak him down with mace and run him naked down Main Street in Aspen with a bell around his neck and black lumps all over his body from the jolts of a high powered "Ball Buster" cattle prod.

An absolute must for every American, let alone Thompson fan - or journalist for that matter. not so much to chop anything down, but rather to organize. A shark tooth was left on Mr Slater's board and scientists have been called in to examine it, with some suggestions it might be a great white.

Would he ever have a field day with Trump's narcissism, Russian erosion of the Democratic process, people's publishing EVERY aspect of their lives on social media and THEN claiming intrusion, and the collective assault on "killing the messenger" when anyone tries to take stock of the situation in any meaningful manner. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I... And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either.

-pg 515Oh, where is Thompson when you need him most?

In Alyssa Cole’s unnerving social thriller When No One is Watching, Sydney Green returns to Brooklyn after a traumatic breakup to find...The first volume in Hunter S. Thompson’s bestselling The first volume in Hunter S. Thompson’s bestselling The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (The Gonzo Papers, #1)Gets bogged down with minutiae at points, but then this is where we often find some of HST's keener insights re: sports, politics, and everything else, after all the bullshit has been laboriously shoveled, scraped, and swept away.

This article has been corrected by the sports essays (on boxing, football, horse racing, sport fishing, etc) should all be together, the counter-culture essays (including a fabulously well-timed one on “hashbury” written just before the summer of love) should be together, and the politicthe essays themselves are generally very good, and interesting as cultural time capsules if nothing else.

Hunter was truly a wild journalist whose kind may never be witnessed again but whose writing is undeniably a spirit of great American journalism.Just as powerful as when I first read it over thirty years ago.

Most of this book is about his experiences covering Richard Nixon and, given that we are at the height of another excessively arrogant conservative regime on the verge of self-destruction resulting from an obvious ethic of corruption and single-mindedness, his observations ring frighteningly true. I only wish the good Doctor were here today to open the National Affairs Desk one more time....A collection of Hunter's Best work that stands on its own. However, Shark Hunt is a kind of Penguin Reader of the Essential HST and as such is the indispensable survey of the glory years.Some stories, like the eponymous Great Shark Hunt, and the Kentucky Derby one, are absolute classics. White Death,"a true adventure film about the Great White Shark, has the answer.NOTE: Only lines in the current paragraph are shown.

So I decided to revisit a cross-section of some of Thompson's earliest (and often best) work including excerpts from "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail" ('72), the Fall of Nixon ('74), ascent of Carter ('76) and pre-Reagan years.

But we need to be super sure you aren't a robot.Please enable JavaScript in your browser to get the full Trove experience. He became in the end a parody of himself so it can be forgotten how good he really was.

What I found is that history, like all else, is cyclical and people tend to make the same mistakes by offering their devotion to the too-often seductive connivers who arrogantly laugh as they get over on all the "rubes"; seek their personal restitution with a wild swing back toward the opposite end of the moral (and political) spectrum; and then get suckered in yet again to begin the cycle anew. Some excellent bits about San Francisco, California, and counterculture along with painstaking political trail journalism and self-deprecation. Behind the Fear and Loathing mystique, the drug addled, booze soaked, outlaw idolized by millions of stoned wannabe authors was an incredibly funny and gifted writer.

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