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Loading... The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Timeby Hunter S. ThompsonSeries: The Gonzo Papers (1)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Wild, woolly, full of fleas. A lot of fun but not his best work. (  ) dekesolomon | Oct 11, 2009 |  You need to be a Real fan if your going to read these kinds of books, and I think I found out that I am not a Real fan. (  ) userbinry4n | Aug 30, 2009 | Antipodean | Aug 17, 2009 | A compendium of what made Thompson great...namely a keen journalistic eye for the craziness of our times. Yes he did drugs, yes he drinks copious amounts of alcohol, yes he probably should have been locked up, but then we would have missed football chats with Richard Nixon, stories about biker gangs, horse racing, and the like. You have probably read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or seen that terrible movie, but what made Thompson great was not the outlaw "gonzo" persona, although that didn't hurt, but it was his ability to combine reality with a fiction that seemed to be almost believable which was never on better display than all the pieces within this anthology. As the Ventures should have said "Run, Don't Walk" to pick this bastard up at your local used bookshop. (  ) RyanRobinson | Apr 21, 2009 | For my money, Thompson's best book. The collection showcases some of his skills as a serious investigative journalist. (  ) MightyLeaf | Apr 5, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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You need look no further for this writer's best: this collection of pieces, first published in 1979, spans all of Thompson's primo era, including short pieces and selections from longer works. The Great Shark Hunt sports a few articles filed by a pre-Gonzo Hunter S. Thompson, which show flickers of passion but no real fire; the first experiments with the author's drug-fueled brand of journalism at the Kentucky Derby; and finally the gigs that made him an American institution, in Las Vegas and on the 1972 campaign trail.
Thompson's style is so unique that a reader is tempted to think that he leapt, fully formed, into Gonzohood. However, along with the crazy, careening prose itself, one of the auxiliary pleasures of The Great Shark Hunt is the map that it gives of Thompson's ascent (or descent, if you prefer) from the workaday hyperbole of sports writing to the hell-blast vigor of his later work. The drugs are, by and large, a distraction--lifestyle points that get in the way of the genuinely perceptive journalism that Thompson created. (But they are there, always, and in quantity.) If you're looking for insight into the underbelly of America, Hunter S. Thompson is your best and only guide, and The Great Shark Hunt is an excellent place to begin the grim safari. --Michael Gerber
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