A Hunter S. Thompson Reading Guide

Okay, ls assume that youre late to the party on this Rosetta Stone software one. Maybe youve seen Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas movie, or youve read bits of Hunter S. Thompsons stuff here and there. You need a heads-up on how to g into the good stuff. Heres what we recommend, in order:The Great Shark Hunt (1979): This classic collection of Thompsons work is the gateway drug: it leads to harder stuff. Shark Hunt contains some of his earliest, relatively-straight stories from the mid-60s as well as his watershed "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved" (one of his first experiments with gonzo journalism) and his first two pieces for Rosta Stone -- including his account of running for sheriff of Aspen, Colorado. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971): Abandon all hope, ye who enter. A hallucinatory account of a journalistic enterprise that went horribly wrong, this book changed journalism, made Hunter a star, and has the power, for a time, to re-orient your perception of the world. The opening paragraph is now one of the most fous Rosetta Stone Latin America Spanish in erican modern literature; just pick it up, okay?Hells Angels (1966): After the sensory overload of Vegas, youll be pleasantly surprised by the deep reporting and powerful narrative of Hunters first book. The riving subject matter -- the worlds most infous biker gang still on their ascendance -- doesnt hurt either.Fear and Loathing on the Cpaign Trail 72 (1973): Only Hunter could make theater out of the daily (somimes hourly) machinations of election-year politics and the whiskey-ripped mayhem of life in the press corps. Especially worth reading this cpaign year.The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Rosetta Stone English Gentleman (The Fear Loathing Lters, Vol. 1) (1997): A 683-page smack in the face to anybody whos ever thought of Hunter as some kind of drug-crazed diltante or one-trick pony, his first volume of lters only gs up to the Hells Angels period, but it delivers -- brutally, relentlessly, and hilariously.