- Gebundene Ausgabe: 304 Seiten
- Verlag: Summit Books (Juni 1988)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0671661477
- ISBN-13: 978-0671661472
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,6 x 16,3 x 3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.1 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (10 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 692.125 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Thompson's outrageous reporting style, called "Gonzo journalism," was the rage in the early 1970s. The protest generation cleaved to his Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ( LJ 8/72) and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ' 72 ( LJ 6/1/73), both genuinely funny and often perceptive social and political commentaries. This new effort, a collection of 100 short pieces originally published as a column in the San Francisco Examiner over the past two years, tries to recapture the old ebullience, but much of it falls flat. Still, Thompson's fansthere are manywill savor his wild words on Ted Kennedy, Gary Hart, Al Haig, Ollie North, George Bush, TV preachers, et al. Kenneth F. Kister, Pinellas Park P.L., Fla.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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In these incendiary essays, Thompson lambastes the greed, depravity, and decadence of America in the 1980s.
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Before he burned himself out on drugs, Hunter Thompson was perhaps the best and certainly most vicious humor writer in America. Unfortunately, by the time the 1980s rolled around, Thompson had lost a few miles-an-hour off his fastball and could no longer knock 'em dead like he used to. Though you can still delight at the occasional potshot at those in power (like his description of George Bush senior as "the mean, preppie vice president"), overall he fails to consistently produce the kind of cutting satire that he could in his prime. It was almost as if he had come to personify the "Uncle Duke" character by which Gary Trudeau had been lampooning him for all these years. Sadly, we must use his own words to report that the master has "cashed his check."
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Fear & Loathing on the campaign trail is probablly the good doctor's masterpiece but pretty much any of the gonzo papers books are well worth a read. It might have been interesting if a younger, angrier HST had been unleashed on the 1980s but this is a mellowed Thompson. But not too mellow. What you get is often hilariously funny stuff about Reagan, drugs, gambling, Iran and inevitably, Richard Nixon. Not a major work and it is slightly inconsistant, but every so often the doc's depraved mind slips into a higher gear and you're glad that the old bugger isn't dead yet. In fact, when he does finally peg out, someone should white the last few paragraphs of the introduction on his tombstone: Hunter's almost serious take on heaven and hell which is worth the price of admission alone.
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I have read this book several times and I always laugh my butt off over a few of the stories in it. There is one story about a pig's head early in the morning that hurts my abdomen. If you find humor in human suffering and stupidity as HST does then this work will never cease to amuse you.
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Thompson goes on/off, but is always an entertaining read.
Veröffentlicht am 29. Juli 2000 von Jacob Blair
Maybe drugs finaly caught up to him...
Book was good but I didn't enjoy it as much as "The Great Shark Hunt... Gonzo 1". Articles in book seemed forced, short...Disapointing? Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
Life in the Eighties!
Hunter S. Thompson does it again! The doctor saw the eighties for what they really were: Miami Vice, Iran contra, The Cold war, and above all, dirty politics! Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 3. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
Definetly one of HST's not-so-great books
A collection of uninteresting tales from an uninteresting decade.Political mumbo-jumbo that fails to keep the reader interested for very long.
Am 7. April 1999 veröffentlicht
A well-guided tour through the decade from hell.
Thompson at his sardonic best. From Ollie North through Reagan -- Thompson excorcises the horrors of greed, stupidity and mindless, unchecked power that mark the decade we'd most... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 1. März 1999 veröffentlicht
Sums up the 80's
Dr. Thompson has done it again. He has taken the 80's decade and showed us what it really was. From Reagan being elected, to the Iran-Contra hearings, no stone is left unturned. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. März 1998 veröffentlicht
Garbage
Trite, overblown, and redundant. Hunter S. Thompson proves that even "biting social commentary" can become stale with age.
Am 23. Januar 1998 veröffentlicht
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