- Taschenbuch: 640 Seiten
- Verlag: MacMillan (11. November 1980)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0330261177
- ISBN-13: 978-0330261173
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,6 x 12,8 x 4,4 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.9 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (12 Kundenrezensionen)
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In addition to being a testament to the undeniably beatifying properties of American excess--literary, political, chemical, you name it--Hunter Thompson is the high priest of the ad hominem attack. Anyone unlucky enough to get in the way of his satirical sledgehammer will end up with soup for brains. Still, even Thompson needs a good villain to get properly lathered up; that's why he peaked simultaneously with America's 37th president, Richard Milhous Nixon. Tricky Dick was Thompson's dark-jowled, pale-calved Muse, and with his departure Thompson seemed to lose his place a bit. Swatting flies with a baseball bat.
You need look no further for this writer's best: this collection of pieces, first published in 1979, spans all of Thompson's primo era, including short pieces and selections from longer works. The Great Shark Hunt sports a few articles filed by a pre-Gonzo Hunter S. Thompson, which show flickers of passion but no real fire; the first experiments with the author's drug-fueled brand of journalism at the Kentucky Derby; and finally the gigs that made him an American institution, in Las Vegas and on the 1972 campaign trail.
Thompson's style is so unique that a reader is tempted to think that he leapt, fully formed, into Gonzohood. However, along with the crazy, careening prose itself, one of the auxiliary pleasures of The Great Shark Hunt is the map that it gives of Thompson's ascent (or descent, if you prefer) from the workaday hyperbole of sports writing to the hell-blast vigor of his later work. The drugs are, by and large, a distraction--lifestyle points that get in the way of the genuinely perceptive journalism that Thompson created. (But they are there, always, and in quantity.) If you're looking for insight into the underbelly of America, Hunter S. Thompson is your best and only guide, and The Great Shark Hunt is an excellent place to begin the grim safari. --Michael Gerber -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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The first volume of the Gonzo papers shows the brilliant, ranting observations and cultural commentary of Thompson at his best.
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well, i finished this book about half an hour ago and feel somehow sad, because i could have gone on reading for some more days, it`s a fantastic collection of thompson`s work, sure in some parts reading can get tought while he keeps on rattling about things no one except him will ever understand, but next to the exzerpts out of his "full books" like fear and loathing in las vegas as well as on the campaign trail `72 and hells angels, there are some nice stories he`s written for several newspapers and magazines. i can say it for sure, that the short story the great shark hunt, is one of the funniest collection of stone crazy thoughts i ever read. enjoy this trip, peace.
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I have read most of Hunter's work through the years. From the articles in Rolling Stone & Playboy, to his many books ,if you can only own one Thompson book, this is the one. Brilliant & funny the best of the best. Its sad that the drugs that made the genius have now destroyed it. But if you want to see Thompson at the top of his game this is the book for you.
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This book is a collection of his works for Rolling Stone and Fear and Loathing on the campaign trail of '72. He adds his usual insight on topics such as racism in Kentucky and his favorite person Richard M. Nixon. Once again Hunter may have some crazy ideas from who knows what he is drinking, and it will actually make sense to whoever is reading it!
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The Doctor At His Best
"Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas" is his most famous book, and rightly so. But that was just one notorious blip in a long and notorious career. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 5. März 2000 veröffentlicht
what a ride
This book was FUN. It was the first Thompson book I'd ever read, and is now precariously held together with Scotch tape- but it has been well used and well loved. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 31. Oktober 1999 von Lois J. Egelhof
Thompson at his best
Before the world became jaded and hopeless, before the good doctor became a world-renown celebrity, before he was regularly given free women and/or drugs, before he became a... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. September 1999 veröffentlicht
Witty Collection of Life's Drunkeness
A MUST READ! Not only can Thompson's novel reflect what we think to ourselves, but it goes further into bringing out the past which some of us weren't alive to live through. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 30. April 1999 veröffentlicht
Thompson in his element
Thompson always seemed most at home with the guerilla tactics he used to re-define journalism. These brief attacks at all that Western society holds sacred demonstrate the... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 6. April 1999 von cross5104@reed.edu
Excellent
The book is incredible, the first Thompson I was exposed to was Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas the motion picture, which was incredible. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 4. Februar 1999 von NYper99@aol.com
Like it should have been
Merely the latest in the long line of exceptionally talented goons who, because they are totally incompatiable with society and thus have been kicked out, are the only ones truly... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. September 1998 veröffentlicht
How the Mighty Have Fallen
The work contained in this volume shows definitively what made Thompson one of the great journalists of his time. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. August 1998 veröffentlicht
Selah
There are very few books I'd give a 10 to, but this is one of them. You can either overdose and read it all in one go (and many of you will) or occasionally snack on its... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 14. Mai 1997 veröffentlicht
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