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Thompson may be correct in assuming that the greed and immorality pervading the American social landscape are obscene, but his surreal, half-demented style has hardened into a pose. These columns from the San Francisco Examiner prove only that journalism can become dated quickly. The author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas calls Colonel Khadafy smarter than Ronald Reagan and takes potshots at television news, Gary Hart, Ed Meese, evangelists, Michael Dukakis, Pat Robertson and the Iran-contra hearings. He predicts that the Democrats will self-destruct in the 1988 presidential campaign. People he dislikes are described as "money-sucking animals," "brainless freaks," "geeks," "greed-crazed lunatics" and so on. Thompson's flaccid diatribes seem designed to instill a sense of smug superiority in the reader.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.

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Thompson's outrageous reporting style, called "Gonzo journalism," was the rage in the early 1970s. The protest generation cleaved to his Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ( LJ 8/72) and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ' 72 ( LJ 6/1/73), both genuinely funny and often perceptive social and political commentaries. This new effort, a collection of 100 short pieces originally published as a column in the San Francisco Examiner over the past two years, tries to recapture the old ebullience, but much of it falls flat. Still, Thompson's fansthere are manywill savor his wild words on Ted Kennedy, Gary Hart, Al Haig, Ollie North, George Bush, TV preachers, et al. Kenneth F. Kister, Pinellas Park P.L., Fla.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Paperback Book, Janv. 8 2010
the book arrived very quickly and in excellant condition. as for the contents of the book i cannot comment as it was a gift for my son.
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1.0étoiles sur 5 Incoherent Soliloquy, Nov. 30 2003
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This review is from: Generation of Swine: Gonzo Papers, Volume 2: Tales of Shame and Degredation in the '80s (Paperback)
In this HST compilation we are presented with a collection of over one hundred writings, all dated throughout a short period of the 1980s. Almost all of it is rambling prose and soliloquy. Because there was never any explanation of the context, intent, or setting in these writings, one can not easily understand it nor get any inferred meaning out of it. He could have noted the circumstances of the places and people that he was writing about. Instead this was just slapped together, lumped it into one, and dumped on bookshelves. A lot of his opinions come off as if he is on a self-righteous pedestal. He also liked to frequently note, that this or that famous person he was writing about was "a friend of mine." In writing, once a person's name gets to a certain point he can convince a publisher to put out his work out no matter how awful onto the market, even if it is self-aggrandizing ramblings that no one can relate to nor benefit from. So-called Gonzo journalism is mostly for those who couldn't write their way out of a paper bag. HST lost his touch about thirty years ago. Take him out of the oven, he's done.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 savagely funny, Nov. 17 2002
This review is from: Generation of Swine: Gonzo Papers, Volume 2: Tales of Shame and Degredation in the '80s (Paperback)
I read this book when it first came out and thoroughly enjoyed it. Of course, it helps if you are a political junkie.

The surprising thing, though, is how I think it holds up, even though so many of the anecdotes and columns are topical of the era in which it was written. I picked this up the other day at the book store, on a whim, and sat down to revisit it. I was laughing so uncontrollably, and for such a period of time, that a lady sitting nearby asked me what I was reading, went and got a copy for herself, started perusing it and ended up buying it.

Nobody...NOBODY is as perfectly vicious and insanely funny at the same time. He is like an impressionist political commentator. His portraits of George Bush Sr here aren't quite accurate...but something about the way he exagerates the man's traits captures his essence more clearly than any attempt at objectivity could hope for.

If only he were still covering politics...

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4.0étoiles sur 5 Not as sharp, but never dull
I read this book right after "The Great Shark Hunt," and it was a bit of a let down. The articles are all around two to three pages in Generation of Swine, so none of... Read more
Publié le Juil 27 2002 par tenzig_shirpa

5.0étoiles sur 5 Hunter's look at the decade of boredom!!
I found this book to be quite entertaining. He writes on getting late night tattoo's, the Iran-Contra affair, Gary Hart and what was the 1988 presidential campaign, and racing... Read more
Publié le Sep 25 2000 par Garett Piencikowski

3.0étoiles sur 5 -
Thompson goes on/off, but is always an entertaining read.
Publié le Juil 29 2000 par Jacob Blair

2.0étoiles sur 5 What a long, strange trip its been
Before he burned himself out on drugs, Hunter Thompson was perhaps the best and certainly most vicious humor writer in America. Read more
Publié le Juil 20 2000 par Brian D. Rubendall

4.0étoiles sur 5 Not a good place to start, but a fine place to continue.
Fear & Loathing on the campaign trail is probablly the good doctor's masterpiece but pretty much any of the gonzo papers books are well worth a read. Read more
Publié le Juil 4 2000

4.0étoiles sur 5 History of the Greedy and Stupid
I have read this book several times and I always laugh my butt off over a few of the stories in it. There is one story about a pig's head early in the morning that hurts my... Read more
Publié le Oct. 14 1999

3.0étoiles sur 5 Maybe drugs finaly caught up to him...
Book was good but I didn't enjoy it as much as "The Great Shark Hunt... Gonzo 1". Articles in book seemed forced, short...Disapointing? Read more
Publié le Jui 15 1999

4.0étoiles sur 5 Life in the Eighties!
Hunter S. Thompson does it again! The doctor saw the eighties for what they really were: Miami Vice, Iran contra, The Cold war, and above all, dirty politics! Read more
Publié le Jui 2 1999

1.0étoiles sur 5 Definetly one of HST's not-so-great books
A collection of uninteresting tales from an uninteresting decade.Political mumbo-jumbo that fails to keep the reader interested for very long.
Publié le Avril 7 1999

5.0étoiles sur 5 A well-guided tour through the decade from hell.
Thompson at his sardonic best. From Ollie North through Reagan -- Thompson excorcises the horrors of greed, stupidity and mindless, unchecked power that mark the decade we'd most... Read more
Publié le Mars 1 1999

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