Quote Originally Posted by psteve
Read 'Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail' before passing judgment.
Yes! This one was good and so was The Great Shark Hunt. If you weren't around for Nixon or Watergate, then some of the stuff in some of these books is hard to grasp. I don't remember any of it firsthand, but I learned a lot about it (in a twisted kind of way) from reading some of HST's books. In the late 80's Thompson wrote a weekly column in the SF Chronicle, and I remember some of those as being absolute genius, but maybe it had more impact because it was all current, instead of reading about something I didn't live through personally. Some of the articles were compiled into Generation of Swine, which was an OK book too, but maybe not as good as earlier ones. If you like the artwork of Ralph Steadman, then The Curse of Lono is also entertaining, but it's not really a serious commentary in my opinion.