Reviews

Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson by Hunter S. Thompson

mattbutreads's review against another edition

funny informative fast-paced

4.0

dtab62's review against another edition

4.0

A good collection of HST's work, but still comes in a distant second to The Great Shark Hunt.

jpagka22's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

hikemogan's review against another edition

3.0

Many of these essays are bits and pieces of much longer articles available in HST's collections such as Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 or The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time. This serves as a sort of Best Of/Hits Collection of Thompson's essays. I'd recommend going to the full-length essays instead. The only "new" material here are the correspondence between Thompson and others. Yet even this can often be found in the two compilations of letters that Thompson thankfully saved during his lifetime.

jpronan124's review against another edition

3.0

Pace, pace, pace is what makes HST so special, and how it changes according to what he's on - your own reading speed and his sputtering prose match up with Thompson's drug of choice. I've never slogged down a half gallon of Wild Turkey - but I think I know how it'd make me feel, thanks to Hunter's one of a kind writing.

littlechiefpaleface's review against another edition

On the one hand, i want to give this 5 stars because I enjoy Hunter's writing, however given the many other reviews stating that the articles were heavily edited, I don't really know how to rate. It took me a long time to read, definitely not one to read in one go to save from HST burnout. I'd like to read the original articles and compare them to the book.
Overall, it felt like something was missing, but I can't put my finger on it.

hook's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative slow-paced

5.0

bokmaskin's review against another edition

funny informative slow-paced

3.0

aje9065a's review against another edition

5.0

I like this because it's Hunter. And because I've had my head far too deep into the news lately. Between the presidential election, the goings on in Tunisia, Syria, and everywhere else (and me paying far too much attention to them)...this was perfect.

It might not be later. But it was perfect for now.