Hunter S. Thompson

Pelkoa ja inhoa Las Vegasissa on kirjailija ja gonzo-journalisti Hunter S. Thompsonin kenties kuuluisin teos. Urheilutoimittajan ja hänen samoalaisen asianajajansa huumeisesta työmatkasta Las Vegasiin kertovaa kirjaa pidetään yhtenä aikansa klassikoista. Vuonna 1998 sai ensi-iltansa kirjan samanniminen elokuvasovitus, …

Begun in 1959 by a 22-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. The narrator, freelance journalist Paul Kemp, irresistibly drawn to a sexy, mysterious …

Helvetin enkelit on Hunter S. Thompsonin kirjoittama, vuonna 1966 julkaistu kirja. Teos perustuu Thompsonin kokemuksiin hänen Helvetin enkelien parissa viettämänsä vuoden ajalta. Kirjan vuonna 2007 ilmestyneen suomenkielisen painoksen kustantaja on Kustannusosakeyhtiö Sammakko.

A political journalist presents his frankly subjective observations on the personalities and political machinations of the 1972 presidential campaign.

The Great Shark Hunt is a book by Hunter S. Thompson. Originally published in 1979 as Gonzo Papers, Vol. 1: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time, the book is a roughly 600-page collection of Thompson's essays from 1956 to the end of the 1970s, following the rise of the author's own gonzo journalism …

In his memoir, Hunter S. Thompson looks back on a long and productive life. It is a story of crazed road trips fuelled by bourbon and black acid, of insane judges and giant porcupines, of girls, guns, explosives and, of course, bikes. He also takes on his dissolute youth in Louisville; his adventures in pornography; …

Gonzo Papers, Vol. 2: Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s is a book by the American writer and journalist Hunter S. Thompson, originally published in 1988. The book contains 100 of Thompson's columns from the San Francisco Examiner, which discuss the politics and culture of the 1980s, with …

Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968–1976 is a collection of hundreds of letters Hunter S. Thompson wrote after his rise to fame with his 1966 hit Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. These letters deal primarily with Thompson and his …

Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie is a 1994 book written by American author and journalist Hunter S. Thompson. In Volume IV of The Gonzo Papers series of books, Thompson details his reactions to the 1992 election of Bill Clinton as U.S. President, as well as recollects his own run for sheriff of …

Gonzo Papers, Vol. 3: Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream is a book by the American writer and journalist Hunter S. Thompson, originally published in 1990. This third installment of The Gonzo Papers is a chronologically arranged selection of stories, letters, journals and reporting, …